BRI's Marine Bird Program and research from Dr. Iain Stenhouse have been featured in Audubon Magazine. Iain's research contributed to a study published in the Journal of Climate, that "identifies a 220,000-square-mile "hotspot" southeast of Greenland where millions of marine birds spend the winter." Click here to read the article to learn how this [...]
Quantitative Ecologist Evan Adams is the BRI lead on two NOAA RESTORE Projects; Restoration of Gulf of Mexico islands and beaches for wildlife: Reducing the uncertainty, and Designing effective stewardship and post-restoration management plans through co-production to protect vulnerable Gulf of Mexico coastal birds. These studies aim to engage stakeholders in the Gulf of [...]
BRI's research on women’s exposure to mercury in Latin American gold-producing countries Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, and Bolivia is featured in Dialogo Chino. Click here to access the full article.
BRI's ongoing Common Loon translocation worked featured on WCVB-TV Channel 5 in Boston. Click here to view the full video highlighting the reintroduction of loons into Massachusetts ponds.
BRI's marine bird research has been published in Conservation Letters, a journal of the Society for Conservation Biology. The research is used to help "identify important aggregations of seabirds in the North Atlantic to inform ongoing regional conservation efforts." To access the full paper, click here.
BRI's research is included in a published article in Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Living Bird magazine, detailing the rise of mercury in songbirds over the last century. To access the full paper, click here.
In partnership with Avian Haven, BRI biologists Shearon Murphy and Tim Welch successfully aided in the capture, recovery, and release of an injured Common Loon. Read the write-up from Avian Haven here.
BRI is pleased to announce that James D. Paruk, Ph.D., professor of biology at Saint Joseph’s College, has recently published Loon Lessons. This book showcases the loon's biology in an accessible and entertaining style. The reader will gain "a deeper understanding of this beautiful and mysterious bird’s natural history and annual life cycle." Dr. Paruk is [...]
BRI's research is included in a published collaborative study to understand how risk factors affect migratory bird populations across their annual cycle. For example, disease outbreaks may happen on the breeding grounds, the wintering grounds, or during migration and are expected to accelerate under climate change. The ability to identify the geographic origins of [...]
IPEN's study conducted with BRI, which shows high levels of mercury in Indigenous Latin American Women, has been covered by the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre. Click here to read the article and the report.
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