Below, find a list of our new and ongoing projects, as well as completed projects.
Contaminants Monitoring Projects
New and ongoing projects
- Evaluating spatial and temporal patterns of mercury exposure in northeast U.S. bat populations
- Developing mercury lowest adverse effect levels (LOAEL) for U.S. bat populations
- Penobscot River mercury study: mercury assessment in bats along the Penobscot River and comparison regions in Maine
- Assessing bat, furbearer, and small mammal Hg profiles for Natural Resource Damage Assessments (NRDA) with USFWS, EPA, and various state agencies
- Peru mercury study examining mercury for gold mining using Giant River and Neotropical River otters as indicator species
Completed projects
- Evaluating spatial and temporal patterns of mercury exposure in northeast U.S. mink and otter populations
- Examining bat mercury trends at Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Virginia
- Penobscot River mercury study: mercury assessment in harbor and gray seals along the Penobscot River and comparison regions in Maine and Massachusetts
Movement and Tracking Projects
New and ongoing projects
- Identifying Late Summer Activities and Habitat Preferences of Remnant Populations of Myotis Bats in Acadia National Park
- Home range movements of otter, mink, beaver, and muskrat on a fluctuating reservoir in western Maine
- Tracking Indiana bats to day roosts and performing exit counts
- Tracking eastern small-footed bats to rock roosts at Acadia National Park
Completed projects:
- Home range study of little brown and tri-color bats on a river in Virginia
- Home range study of northern long-eared and eastern small-footed bats at Great Bay National Wildlife Refuge
- Examining muskrat movements and populations on a fluctuating reservoir in Downeast Maine
Inventory and Population Projects
New and ongoing projects:
- Understanding bat migration in coastal Massachusetts (working with Parker River and Great Bay National Wildlife Refuges)
- Acoustic monitoring of bats at various National Parks, National Wildlife Refuges, and various states for inventory purposes
- Community structure of bats at Acadia National Park
- Museum query for historical coastal bat occurrences
Completed projects:
- Bat survey of Parker River and Great Bay National Wildlife Refuges
- Ecoregion survey to determine rare bat and small mammal species in Maine
- Characterizing bird and bat migration in the Thousand Islands region of New York State (with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service).
- Gas pipeline surveys for endangered Indiana bats in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio
- Rare mammal inventory along the Appalachian Trail in Maine for the National Park Service
