Our work spans across continents. Conservation of migratory species requires complete information on its ecology and threats throughout its entire annual cycle.
Using tiny aluminum leg bands, novel chemistry, radio telemetry, or miniature geolocator backpacks - our scientists are following the health and fate of wildlife from the Northeast and throughout the Americas.
Mercury
Mercury is a neurotoxin that impacts the function and development of the central nervous system. Released from coal-burning power plants and other industrial sources and carried around the globe, conventional thinking held that the mercury threat was limited to aquatic environments, since it is most readily converted to its toxic form there. But our scientists have led groundbreaking research showing elevated levels in terrestrial wildlife too. Learn more »
