Susan J. Crockford
Canadian zoologist, author, and blogger / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Susan Janet Crockford (born 1954) is a Canadian contract scientist who runs a small business identifying bones and other items in scat of wildlife.[1] She is a blogger who writes about zoology and climate science, and is notable for holding climate change denial views running in opposition to the prevailing consensus of the scientific community (see Controversy section below).[2]
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Born | Susan Janet Crockford 1954 (age 69ā70) |
Nationality | Canadian |
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Known for | Blogging about polar bears |
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Institutions | University of Victoria |
Thesis | Animal Domestication and Vertebrate Speciation: A Paradigm for the Origin of Species (2004) |
Doctoral advisor | Quentin Mackie |
Website | susancrockford |
Crockford's additional blogging (which is grey literature) focuses on Holocene mammals. From 2004 to 2019 she was an adjunct professor in Anthropology at the University of Victoria.[3] Crockford has gained attention for her blog posts on polar bear biology, which are unsupported by the scientific literature and oppose the scientific consensus that polar bears are threatened by ongoing climate change.[4][5][6]