Senior Geospatial Scientist; Technology Director

Andrew’s interest in widlife began at an early age, but his passion for birds began as a birder on the Maine coast in winter at the long end of a spotting scope.

Andrew Gilbert, M.S.

Senior Geospatial Scientist; Technology Director
andrew.gilbert@briwildlife.org
207-839-7600 x205

Since 2010, Andrew has managed BRI’s GIS program and now oversees all aspects of data management and IT services. He manages complex geospatial data, creating scripts in Python, Visual Basic.Net, and R to efficiently process, analyze, and map data. He has worked with partners at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to bring together historical and current seabird data for the U.S. Atlantic waters as part of a long-term effort to understand seabird distribution and population change. He has created tools for monitoring avian occurrence and behavior including the development of a mobile seabird survey application for Android and iOS devices (SeaScribe.) His work has resulted in a better understanding of the patterns of seabird distribution through time and space within the western North Atlantic.

Andrew’s current projects include the development of monitoring protocols for automated radio telemetry studies at offshore wind, a well as various commercial offshore wind projects in the U.S. Atlantic.

Education & Certifications

  • B.A., Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
  • M.S., Wildlife Ecology, University of Maine, Orono

Research Interests

  • Seabirds, spatial ecology
  • Seabird distribution and movement
  • Offshore wind/wildlife interactions,
  • Using advanced technology to monitor wildlife

Journal Articles

Gulka, J., A. M. Berlin, K. D. Friedland, A. T. Gilbert, C. Goetsch, W. A. Montevecchi, M. Perry, I. J. Stenhouse, K. A. Williams, & E. M. Adams. 2023. Assessing individual movement, habitat use, and behavior of non-breeding marine birds in relation to prey availability in the US Atlantic. Marine Ecology Progress Series 711: 77-99.
Goetsch, C., J. Gulka, K. D. Friedland, A. J. Winship, J. Clerc, A. Gilbert, H. F. Goyert, I. J. Stenhouse, K. A. Williams, J. R. Willmott, M. L. Rekdahl, H. C. Rosenbaum, & E. M. Adams. 2023. Surface and subsurface oceanographic features drive forage fish distributions and aggregations: Implications for prey availability to top predators in the US Northeast Shelf ecosystem. Ecology and Evolution 13.
Adams, E. M., I. J. Stenhouse, A. T. Gilbert, J. Boelsma, G. Gress, C. S. Weidensaul, C. Grigsby, E. J. Williams, L. Phillips, & C. L. McIntyre. 2022. The first documentation of the Nearctic–Paleotropical migratory route of the Arctic Warbler. Ecology and Evolution 12.
Stenhouse, I. J., A. M. Berlin, A. T. Gilbert, M. W. Goodale, C. E. Gray, W. A. Montevecchi, L. Savoy, & C. S. Spiegel. 2020. Assessing the exposure of three diving bird species to offshore wind areas on the U.S. Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf using satellite telemetry. Diversity and Distributions 26. Available at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ddi.13168.
Paruk, J. D., I. J. Stenhouse, B. J. Sigel, E. M. Adams, W. A. Montevecchi, D. C. Evers, A. T. Gilbert, M. Duron, D. Long, J. Hemming, & P. Tuttle. 2019. Oiling of American White Pelicans, Common Loons, and Northern Gannets in the winter following the Deepwater Horizon (MC252) oil spill. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 191: 817. Available at http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10661-019-7925-y.
Goyert, H. F., B. Gardner, R. R. Veit, A. T. Gilbert, E. Connelly, M. Duron, S. Johnson, & K. Williams. 2018. Evaluating habitat, prey, and mesopredator associations in a community of marine birds. ICES Journal of Marine Science 75. Available at https://academic.oup.com/icesjms/article/75/5/1602/4973731.
Goyert, H. F., B. Gardner, R. R. Veit, A. T. Gilbert, E. Connelly, M. Duron, S. Johnson, & K. Williams. 2018. Evaluating habitat, prey, and mesopredator associations in a community of marine birds Browman, H. (ed). ICES Journal of Marine Science 75: 1602-1612. Available at https://academic.oup.com/icesjms/article/75/5/1602/4973731.
Sollmann, R., B. Gardner, K. A. Williams, A. T. Gilbert, & R. R. Veit. 2016. A hierarchical distance sampling model to estimate abundance and covariate associations of species and communities O'Hara, R. B. (ed). Methods in Ecology and Evolution 7: 529-537. Available at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/2041-210X.12518.
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Friedland, K. D., J. P. Manning, J. S. Link, J. R. Gilbert, A. T. Gilbert, & A. F. O’Connell. 2012. Variation in wind and piscivorous predator fields affecting the survival of Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) in the Gulf of Maine. Fisheries Management and Ecology 19: 22-35. Available at http://doi.wiley.com/10.1111/j.1365-2400.2011.00814.x.
Evers, D. C., K. A. Williams, M. W. Meyer, A. M. Scheuhammer, N. Schoch, A. T. Gilbert, L. Siegel, R. J. Taylor, R. Poppenga, & C. R. Perkins. 2011. Spatial gradients of methylmercury for breeding Common Loons in the Laurentian Great Lakes region. Ecotoxicology 20: 1609-1625. Available at http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10646-011-0753-7.
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Nominated Member

  • Cape Elizabeth Planning Board