Completed Projects

• Investigating mercury levels in the feathers and blood of a broad suite of shorebirds breeding across North America, from Alaska to Nunavut (in collaboration with the Arctic Shorebird Demographics Network)
• Evaluating mercury exposure in a number of seabirds and waterbirds breeding in Alaska and Russia, including the Kittlitz’s Murrelet, Yellow-billed Loon, Pacific Loon, and Arctic Loon (in collaboration with researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey, and at the Russian Academy of Sciences)

New and ongoing projects:

• Determining the year-round movements of migratory birds that nest in Denali National Park, Alaska, and identifying migration routes, stopover sites, and wintering areas (in collaboration with the National Park Service)

Completed projects:

• Identifying the Asian wintering areas of Yellow-billed Loons breeding on Alaska’s North Slope (in collaboration with Dr. Joel Schmutz, U.S. Geological Survey)
• Identifying the Arctic breeding areas of Red-throated Loons wintering in the mid-Atlantic coastal region (in collaboration with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
• Assessing the year-round association between Arctic-breeding Black Guillemots and sea ice (in collaboration with Dr. George Divoky, Friends of Cooper Island)

New and ongoing projects:

• Collaborating with Russian scientists in the Chukotka region of Siberia to develop on-site field methods for monitoring loons (Yellow-billed, Pacific, and Arctic), and on publications related to the ecology of waterbirds, shorebirds, songbirds, and other Arctic wildlife (with Dr. Diana Solovyeva, Russian Academy of Sciences)

Completed projects:

• Capturing and color-banding Yellow-billed Loons on Alaska’s North Slope to monitor their reproductive success, survival, and breeding distribution (in collaboration with Dr. Joel Schmutz, U.S. Geological Survey)