In January 2023, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) released a draft call area for the siting of offshore wind development in the Gulf of Maine. In response to the draft call area, the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (MDIFW) and the Maine Governor’s Energy Office submitted a comment to BOEM [...]
A Special Issue on Mercury in the Journal Ecotoxicology BRI announces the publication of a series of multiyear research studies that assessed the global impact of mercury on air, water, fish, and wildlife in a two-part special issue of Ecotoxicology, an international scientific journal devoted to presenting critical research on the effects of toxic [...]
The 7th Conference on Wind Energy and Wildlife (CWW) is taking place in Croatia on September 18th-22nd. CWW is an international conference bringing together researchers, conservation scientists, wind industry professionals, government officials and NGO representatives from around the world to share their experiences and develop solutions to avoid, minimize, and mitigate the impacts of [...]
BRI and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have developed a collision risk model for predicting offshore wind risk to endangered bird species in the US Atlantic. The model, Stochastic Collision Risk Assessment for Movement (SCRAM), is currently in use by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the Fish and Wildlife Service, [...]
New QWERL paper, "Surface and subsurface oceanographic features drive forage fish distributions and aggregations: Implications for prey availability to top predators in the US Northeast Shelf ecosystem" published in Ecology and Evolution. This paper discusses results from the application of Bayesian joint species distribution models to bottom trawl survey data to assess species- and [...]
Vol 4. Issue 1. January 2026 Looking Back to Move ForwardBy Christine Gardiner, Toxicology Laboratory Director Bald Eagle diving in the air © Ken Archer Bald Eagles, majestic symbols of freedom, boast a great comeback from their declining populations 60 years ago. These eagles, with their pure white heads and six-foot wingspans, [...]
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 [...]
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