The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) recently announced that it has selected five multi-year projects totaling more than $2 million to further study important environmental and commercial fishing topics to support the responsible development of offshore wind, two of which will fund research at BRI. The primary project BRI was [...]
BRI research on mercury concentrations in fish was recently published in the journal, Science of the Total Environment. The article, A global-scale assessment of fish mercury concentrations and the identification of biological hotspots, presents data on a rapid assessment of fish total mercury (THg) concentrations from 40 different waterbodies in 26 countries, including data from [...]
BRI research on seabirds and offshore wind energy development was recently published in the journal Environmental Research Letters. The article, Assessing the cumulative adverse effects of offshore wind energy development on seabird foraging guilds along the East Coast of the United States, calculates cumulative exposure of seabirds to areas suitable for offshore wind farms, and [...]
Library Exhibit Lets You Enter the Endangered Zone By Bob Keyes “Mountain Gorilla” by Michael Boardman Prepare to be stunned. A new art exhibition at the Portland Public Library features life-size and realistically rendered paintings in full color of two dozen of the world’s endangered animals, depicted by New England’s top wildlife artists. The [...]
BRI research on bird migration was recently published in the journal Global Ecology and Biogeography. The article, Large birds travel farther in homogeneous environments, compiled GPS tracking data from dozens of ornithologists around the globe to better understand how environmental factors (i.e., resource availability and arrangement) and other factors (i.e., taxonomy, body mass, diet, [...]
Two articles authored by BRI are featured in the current edition of Paws Trails Explorers, an international wildlife and conservation-focused magazine. The April/May 2019 issue is a special Women's Edition, and features articles from BRI's Kate Taylor and Deborah McKew. Taylor's article, A Seasonal Journey with the Common Loon, details her experience working with loons [...]
BRI research on Blackpoll Warbler migration was recently published in the journal, Ecology. The article, A boreal songbird's 20,000 km migration across North America and the Atlantic Ocean, describes how researchers used geolocators to document migration routes and stopover sites of the small songbird. Researchers found that breeding populations from as far as western Alaska make [...]
How much mercury is released in Belize? The Basel Convention Regional Centre for Training and Technology Transfer for the Caribbean (BCRC-Caribbean), in collaboration with the Department of Environment in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Forestry, the Environment and Sustainable Development, held a National Inception Workshop for the project, “Development of Minamata Initial Assessment in [...]
BRI researcher and deputy director, Wing Goodale, recently published a new paper on wildlife and offshore wind development. The article, Assessing the cumulative exposure of wildlife to offshore wind energy development, was published in the Journal of Environmental Management, and outlines a Cumulative Exposure (CE) model that can be used to: evaluate the incremental impact of wind [...]
Senators Collins, Carper Reintroduce Bipartisan Legislation to Track Mercury Pollution Sens. Tom Carper, D-Delaware, and Susan Collins, R-Maine, recently reintroduced the Comprehensive National Mercury Monitoring Act, a bipartisan bill that would establish a national mercury monitoring network to protect human health, safeguard fisheries and track the environmental effects of emissions reductions. The senators previously [...]
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