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 [...]
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 [...]
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