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 [...]
BRI researchers, in a long-term collaboration with the National Parks Service, have provided the first documentation of the migratory routes and wintering locations of two territorial adult male Arctic Warblers from Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska. This study, carried out as part of the National Park Service's Critical Connections Program and published [...]
Scientists Say Global Biodiversity Framework Falls Short on Chemicals and Other Contaminants Portland, ME – Biodiversity Research Institute (BRI) is part of an international group of scientists who published a joint letter in the June 17 issue of Science, just prior to the next round of international negotiations on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework [...]
A recent article from CBC News features BRI's research on declining eider duck populations and highlights the major tracking project taking place in Maine and parts of Atlantic Canada. "Scientists from a United States research institute are gearing up to travel to Grand Manan, N.B., at the end of this month to implant [...]
BRI and the Antigua and Barbuda-based Department of Analytical Services (DAS) are collaborating to determine the level of mercury found in fish, birds, human hair, and the air in Antigua and Barbuda. In late April a team headed by Dr. Linroy Christian, Director of Analytical Services in Antigua and Barbuda, and members of [...]
BRI staff Kate Williams will be presenting a special session at the International Conference on Wind Energy and Wildlife Impacts in the Netherlands in April. The special session, "Cumulative Effects from Offshore Wind Energy Development" focuses on the European and North American offshore wind experience to: 1) describe the scientific and policy challenges associated [...]
BRI research is featured in a new paper published in Environmental Reviews. York University Professor Gail Fraser, of the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, along with colleagues Research Scientist Greg Robertson of Environment and Climate Change Canada, Director of the Marine Bird Program Iain Stenhouse of the Biodiversity Research Institute in Maine, [...]
BRI announces the publication of a scientific paper in the journal Science, which evaluated the acute and chronic exposure of Bald Eagles and Golden Eagles to lead (Pb) at a nationwide scale. BRI’s Raptor Program Director Chris DeSorbo was among 29 co-authors of the study, which broadly evaluated lead exposure in both species [...]
BRI announces the publication of the scientific paper Amazon forests capture high levels of atmospheric mercury pollution from artisanal gold mining in the January 28 issue of Nature Communications. In this new study, an international team of researchers show that illegal gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon is causing exceptionally high levels of [...]
BRI's Climate Change program director Tim Tear co-authored the report below, published through The Sustainable Markets Initiative (SMI). The Science Working Group of the SMI Nature-Based Solutions Taskforce published the paper which focuses on technical advances in assessing natural climate solutions for global carbon markets. "This paper argues that recent advances in scientific understanding [...]
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