In addition, he is the former Chair of the IUCN Species Survival Commission’s Small Carnivore Specialist Group, member of Council for the International Association for Bear Research and Management and elected affiliate member of the International Federation of Mammalogists. Jerry is Editor-in-Chief for Ursus and Small Carnivore Conservation and an Associate Editor for Wildlife Society Bulletin and Latin American Journal of Conservation. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and his Ph.D. from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. His research interests include wildlife resource use, monitoring and population estimation, human-wildlife interactions, and international conservation.