The International Polar Year (IPY), which begins in March 2007 and continues until 2009, is a program of international research and education focused on the Arctic and Antarctic regions. For more information on IPY, go to http://www.us-ipy.gov/.
Dr. Stewart boarding a gyrocopter in search of whale sharks
Brent Stewart, Ph.D., J.D.
Brent Stewart joined HSWRI as a field biologist in 1977 and has since conducted studies of the population biology, foraging and physiological ecology, and behavior of a variety of marine mammals, sea birds, sea turtles, and sharks. Dr. Stewart’s research expeditions have ranged from Greenland and Iceland in the North Atlantic south to Marion Island in the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean, in Russia's Lake Baikal, from the Beaufort and Bering Seas south through temperate, tropical and equatorial waters in the North Pacific Ocean, and in the Weddell, Amundsen, and Ross Seas of the Antarctic's Southern Ocean. For Brent's complete bio click here.
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