Senior Science Director

Wing Goodale holds an Common Tern.

M. Wing Goodale, Ph.D

Senior Science Director
wing.goodale@briwildlife.org
207-839-7600 x219

Goodale is the Senior Science Director at Biodiversity Research Institute (BRI) and adjunct research faculty at the University of Maine. His research is focused on the interaction of wildlife with offshore wind energy. Goodale has in-depth knowledge of the cumulative effects, offshore wind farm wildlife literature, and environmental assessments.

At BRI, Goodale takes a leadership role in developing organization-wide projects, making strategic decisions, facilitating daily operations, and managing over 40 employees. He has conducted or managed more than 80 conservation biology projects. He was the PI on a Department of Energy funded project that developed a stereo-optic camera system to track birds and bats around wind turbines. Goodale has served on municipal committees, environmental nonprofit boards, professional boards, and college boards, including the governor appointed Maine Board of Environmental Protection.

Education & Certifications

  • Ph.D., Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2018
  • Master of Philosophy, Human Ecology, College of the Atlantic, 2001
    • Goodale, W. 2001. Herring gulls’ use of lobster bait during the breeding season in Penobscot Bay, Maine. College of the Atlantic master’s thesis.
  • Bachelor of Arts, Biology, Colorado College, 1996

Research Interests

  • Determining contaminant exposure, and population density of seabirds in Maine and New England.

Journal Articles

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.
Goodale, M. W., & A. Milman. 2020. Assessing cumulative exposure of Northern Gannets to offshore wind farms. Wildlife Society Bulletin 44: 252-259. Available at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/wsb.1087.
Goodale, M. W., & A. Milman. 2019. Assessing the cumulative exposure of wildlife to offshore wind energy development. Journal of Environmental Management 235: 77-83. Available at https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0301479719300222.
Goodale, M. W., A. Milman, & C. R. Griffin. 2019. Assessing the cumulative adverse effects of offshore wind energy development on seabird foraging guilds along the East Coast of the United States. Environmental Research Letters 14: 074018. Available at https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab205b.
Stenhouse, I. J., E. M. Adams, J. L. Goyette, K. J. Regan, M. W. Goodale, & D. C. Evers. 2018. Changes in mercury exposure of marine birds breeding in the Gulf of Maine, 2008–2013. Marine Pollution Bulletin 128: 156-161. Available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2018.01.025.
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Abeysinghe, K. S., G. Qiu, E. Goodale, C. W. N. Anderson, K. Bishop, D. C. Evers, M. W. Goodale, H. Hintelmann, S. Liu, C. Mammides, R. C. Quan, J. Wang, P. Wu, X. H. Xu, X. D. Yang, & X. Feng. 2017. Mercury flow through an Asian rice-based food web. Environmental Pollution 229: 219-228. Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2017.05.067.
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Goodale, M. W., & A. Milman. 2016. Cumulative adverse effects of offshore wind energy development on wildlife. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 59: 1-21. Available at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09640568.2014.973483.
Goodale, M. W., & I. J. Stenhouse. 2016. A conceptual model to determine vulnerability of wildlife populations to offshore wind energy development. Human-Wildlife Interactions 10: 53-61. Available at https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/hwi/vol10/iss1/7/.
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Evers, D. C., L. J. Savoy, C. R. DeSorbo, D. E. Yates, W. Hanson, K. M. Taylor, L. S. Siegel, J. H. Cooley, M. S. Bank, A. Major, K. Munney, B. F. Mower, H. S. Vogel, N. Schoch, M. Pokras, M. W. Goodale, & J. Fair. 2008. Adverse effects from environmental mercury loads on breeding Common Loons. Ecotoxicology 17: 69-81. Available at http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10646-007-0168-7.
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Goodale, M. W., D. C. Evers, S. E. Mierzykowski, A. L. Bond, N. M. Burgess, C. I. Otorowski, L. J. Welch, C. S. Hall, J. C. Ellis, R. B. Allen, A. W. Diamond, S. W. Kress, & R. J. Taylor. 2008. Marine foraging birds as bioindicators of mercury in the Gulf of Maine. EcoHealth 5: 409-425. Available at http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10393-009-0211-7.
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Research Reports

Grants, Awards & Fellowships

  • Fellow, Switzer Foundation (elected 2016)
  • Fellow, UMass National Science Foundation Integrated Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (elected March 2014)
  • Associate, UMass National Science Foundation Integrated Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (elected January 2013)
  • National Fellow, Explorers Club (elected October 2005)