Tomorrow, October 12th marks #WorldMigratoryBirdDay. This year, we celebrate the importance of insects to #migratorybirds, which are an important source of energy during the breeding season and their #migration journeys!
Biodiversity Research Institute
Environmental Services
Portland, Maine 3,156 followers
A nonprofit environmental research group based in Portland, Maine, conducting innovative wildlife science worldwide.
About us
The mission of Biodiversity Research Institute is to assess emerging threats to wildlife and ecosystems through collaborative research, and to use scientific findings to advance environmental awareness and inform decision makers. Please see our website for more information: https://briwildlife.org/
- Website
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http://www.briwildlife.org
External link for Biodiversity Research Institute
- Industry
- Environmental Services
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Portland, Maine
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1998
- Specialties
- Mercury Contamination Research, Migration Studies to inform Wind Power Development, Bird Banding for Monitoring and Tracking Bird Populations, Climate Change Studies, Environmental Consulting, Biodiversity Surveys, and Offshore Wind and Wildlife
Locations
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Primary
276 Canco Rd
Portland, Maine 04103, US
Employees at Biodiversity Research Institute
Updates
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Last week at #AOS2024, BRI staff presented research talks about seabirds in the Atlantic ocean, Harlequin ducks in Wyoming, and Black Rosy-finches! 🦆 The 2024 #conference theme of "Summit for the #Birds" celebrates #ornithological research and highlights the diverse work being done to support birds and the habitats that support them! 🪶
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Check out the latest issue of BRI's #ezine, One Drop of Water! ✨ Take a journey through the #grasslands of South Dakota, learn about how biodiversity #policy works in the United States, and open your eyes to the wonders of #nature writing! 🐾🌱 Read more here: https://lnkd.in/e_eQSeY6
One Drop of Water
https://briwildlife.org
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BRI is #hiring an Ecosystem Scientist to join our Center for Conservation & Climate Change! In this role, you’ll work collaboratively with CarbonSolve to design #carbon project activities, including monitoring, modeling and carbon accounting. This position will also support community engagement with local stakeholders in carbon projects. Are you interested? Check out the full job description to apply! https://lnkd.in/ds7P_D57
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BRI’s Center for Conservation and Climate Change works around the world to conduct studies that improve #biodiversity through ecosystem management and restoration. BRI works with Mafisia in Zambia, as well as other partners, including CarbonSolve on #soilcarbon projects. 🌍 Soil carbon plays a crucial role in mitigating #climatechange by drawing down excess carbon from the atmosphere into the ground, where the #carbon rebuilds the soil to feed healthy plants and balance the climate. As part of a 1.26-million-hectare soil carbon project, we are working to implement fire management and grazing techniques to monitor changes in soil carbon storage and biodiversity. 🌱 Check out our website to learn more about the project : https://lnkd.in/ey3uhVNw
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Eye color variation with age and/or sex is a widespread phenomena in the #bird world! Research suggests that eye color serves as an important signal letting other birds know if an individual might be a suitable mate or a potential rival. This variation in iris color can be observed in Gray Catbirds (Dumetella carolinensis), River Point Bird Observatory’s most common capture! The iris starts out a light gray and quickly transitions to a deep maroon, so dark that it looks like an inky black from afar. 1 - Hatch Year with gray-brown iris 2 - Hatch Year with reddish-brown iris 3 - After Hatch Year with near-black iris
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Vice President Operations, Environment & Water | Worley Consulting | Sustainability Professional | MRC Board Chair
Congratulations to the team for their recent publication on Technology gaps for monitoring birds and marine mammals at offshore wind facilities. Sarah Courbis Kate Williams Julia Stepanuk, Ph.D. Heidi Etter Megan McManus Fabiola Campoblanco, P.E. Aude Pacini Worley Biodiversity Research Institute
Excited to share our publication on technology gaps in #offshorewind wildlife monitoring in Marine Technology Society (MTS) Journal! https://lnkd.in/dcmj-4D2 Thanks so much to co-authors Kate Williams, Julia Stepanuk, Ph.D., Heidi Etter, Aude Pacini, Megan McManus and Fabiola Campoblanco, P.E. for all your hard work on this project!! And, thanks to Melanie Schultz and Christine Sloan at National Offshore Wind Research & Development Consortium for their leadership and project funding. Also, thanks to our wonderful Project Advisory Board, including Naomi Lewandowski, Garry George, Taber Allison, Desray Reeb, Koen Broker, Kimberly Verderber, PMP, Jessica Redfern, Camille Senn, and Elliott Hazen. And, thanks to all the folks who participated in our workshops and contributed their valuable expertise to this project! We look forward to continued work with NOWRDC to share the results of this project and inform offshore wind wildlife monitoring!
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Last week, we celebrated our #Groundbreaking for an expansion of 17 additional office spaces! 🏗 Thank you to the City of Portland, Maine and all those who attended the celebration for the continued support!
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Where are the #UplandSandpipers going? 🌎🌍 From 2022 to 2024, BRI and partners have fitted 23 satellite transmitters on Upland Sandpipers in Downeast Maine and northern Aroostook County. By deploying transmitters, this project has enabled first-time documentations of local and regional movement of Maine Upland Sandpipers, spring and fall #migration timing, travel routes, stopover and wintering areas, and breeding site fidelity. Data from these individuals demonstrated that #Maine Upland Sandpipers overwinter in different areas of South America than other breeding populations studied! Deployed tags provide relevant information to a wide variety of #conservation and management decisions in Maine. This project is done with support from the Maine Outdoor Heritage Fund and in partnership with The Nature Conservancy in Maine, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, Environment and Climate Change Canada, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Alaska. All birds were captured and handled by trained biologists under proper federal and state permitting and released unharmed.
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Guidance for Pre- and Post-Construction Monitoring to Detect Changes in Marine Bird Distributions and Habitat Use Related to Offshore Wind Energy 🦅 An expert committee of the New York State Offshore Wind Environmental Technical Working Group (E-TWG) has released guidance for conducting pre- and post-construction monitoring to detect changes in marine bird distributions and habitat use related to offshore wind development. The committee also developed guidance for the use of existing avian survey data for site characterization purposes. 🌊 The guidance was developed with extensive stakeholder feedback. These recommendations are intended to support environmental research in the U.S. Atlantic but have broad applicability to research efforts in all regions of offshore wind development. The guidance documents are available at: https://lnkd.in/erDKUsik #OffshoreWind #OffshoreWindDevelopment
Avian Displacement Guidance Committee | ETWG
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