Team Member Spotlight: Evan Adams Evan is a quantitative ecologist at the Biodiversity Research Institute, a non-profit based out of Portland, ME that is focused on integrating science into policy-making. Evan sits on the GoMAMN Steering Committee, co-chairs the Seabirds Committee, and helps lead a post-hoc committee on data sharing and integration. Evan also [...]
BRI's research on oiling and birds was recently published in the journal, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. The article, Oiling of American white pelicans, common loons, and northern gannets in the winter following the Deepwater Horizon (MC252) oil spill, assesses the oiling of migratory bird species dependent on open water in the Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater [...]
BRI research on Northern Gannets (Morus bassanus) and offshore wind farms was recently published in the journal, Wildlife Society Bulletin. The article, Assessing Cumulative Exposure of Northern Gannets to Offshore Wind Farms, examines whether wind‐farm siting decisions can reduce cumulative exposure of gannets. The study quantified exposure using three different wind-farm siting scenarios. Read the full [...]
BRI research on loon translocation was recently published in the journal, Zoo Biology. The article, A novel method for captive rearing and translocation of Common Loons, reports BRI's method for housing and captive rearing common loon chicks that was developed as part of the first‐ever loon translocation effort in southeast Massachusetts, from 2015 to 2017. The article [...]
Download Press Release Here Portland, ME – Today marks the 10-year anniversary of oil coming ashore and impacting the Gulf of Mexico coastline after the Deepwater Horizon disaster. On this important anniversary, we are announcing Biodiversity Research Institute’s involvement in the ‘Strategic Bird Monitoring Guidelines for the Northern Gulf of Mexico’ produced by the Gulf [...]
Download as PDF MATS and Mercury in Context Coal-fired power plants are the largest source of mercury in the U.S., accounting for approximately 48% of mercury emissions in 2015[1]. The Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) were finalized in 2012 to regulate emissions of mercury, acid gases and other hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) from [...]
Isolated Wyoming Common Loons Continue to Surprise Researchers By Brett French BILLINGS – Wyoming’s small population of about 50 common loons is related to those found in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, according to recent genetic results – not closer populations that nest in Montana or Washington, which are still more than 200 miles away. [...]
BRI research on mercury transfer in birds was recently published in the journal, Environmental Science and Technology. The article, Synthesis of Maternal Transfer of Mercury in Birds: Implication for Altered Toxicity Risk, reviews published and unpublished data on maternal transfer of methylmercury in birds. Researchers used paired samples of females' blood and their eggs from 26 bird [...]
Isolated Wyoming common loons continue to surprise researchers By Brett French Wyoming’s small population of about 50 common loons is related to those found in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, according to recent genetic results — not closer populations that nest in Montana or Washington, which are still more than 200 miles away. “That’s a little [...]
Raptor biologists discuss rare bald eagle sighting in Maine By Aislinn Sarnacki Two bald eagles altered their hunting tactics and seemingly worked together to outsmart sea ducks in a recent story submitted by a BDN reader, Kate Chaplin of Northeast Harbor, for the “Strange Stories in the Maine Wilderness” series. The story got me [...]
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