Vol 3. Issue 3. October 2025 Building on MomentumBy Allison Foster, Communications Coordinator In his seminal work Meteorology, Aristotle coined the term “quicksilver” to describe mercury. Since antiquity, humans have exploited this liquid metal for its unique characteristics—it is a good conductor of electricity, forms alloys with other metals, is sensitive to heat and [...]
Bipartisan legislation to monitor mercury announced. U.S. Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Tom Carper (D-DE) introduced the Comprehensive National Mercury Monitoring Act, bipartisan legislation that would establish a national mercury monitoring network to protect human health and the environment. “The U.N.’s global mercury treaty, the Minamata Convention on Mercury, aims to protect human and environmental [...]
David Evers and Celia Chen are issue editors of a special issue of Ambio: A Journal of Environment and Society, titled Global mercury impact synthesis: Processes in the Southern Hemisphere. "In the summer of 2021, lead authors of the 15th ICMGP 2022 synthesis were invited to develop and write papers in 2021–2022. These five [...]
A new paper on technical working groups has been published in Marine and Coastal Fisheries: Dynamics, Management, and Ecosystem Science. To advance offshore wind (OSW) in a way that is both environmentally and socially responsible as well as cost-effective, New York State developed technical working groups (TWGs) in 2017 focused on critical topics relating [...]
BRI's David Evers is an author of a new paper published in Global Change Biology, titled Addressing chemical pollution in biodiversity research. This paper reviews "evidence showing that the multifaceted effects of anthropogenic chemicals in the environment are posing a growing threat to biodiversity and ecosystems." The authors "argue that progress in understanding and [...]
Celebrating 25 Years of Innovative Wildlife Science By Deborah McKew, BRI Communications Director On the remote island of Rota, a tiny dot in the vastness of Oceania, a group of field biologists from distant places join forces each year to study threatened and endangered species of bats, indigenous crows, and other wildlife. In [...]
To support the State of Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife during the offshore wind commercial planning process, BRI conducted a desktop study and literature review to determine regions of importance for breeding and migrating marine birds in the Gulf of Maine to inform regions of higher and lower risk to marine [...]
Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (MDIFW) recently released its 2021-2022 Research and Management Report, which highlights BRI collaborative research projects on Bald Eagles and Upland Sandpipers. MDIFW collaborates with BRI and other organizations to collect and manage data from bald eagle movement studies and upland sandpiper habitat and movement studies to better aid [...]
BRI is a Silver Sponser of The Northeast Bat Working Group Meeting. This meeting is held each year and hosted on a rotating schedule of locations throughout the Northeast. Participants present results from previous studies, provide updates on long term projects, and plan future multi-state collaborative endeavors. The 2023 Northeast Bat Working Group Meeting [...]
Wing Goodale, BRI's Senior Scientist and Kate Williams, director of the Center for Research on Offshore Wind and the Environment (CROWE) are co-authors on a new offshore wind publication featured in Biological Conservation. Framework for assessing and mitigating the impacts of offshore wind energy development on marine birds presents a broadly applicable framework [...]
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