Dave Yates, M.S.
Wildlife Research Biologist and Mammal Program Director
Phone: (207) 839-7600/ ext 114; Fax: (207) 839-7655
dave.yates@briloon.org
Biography
Dave is a Unity College graduate (1999), where he earned a degree in Environmental Sciences with an emphasis in Wildlife Biology and Management. He has an M.S. from Antioch University New England in environmental studies with an emphasis in Conservation Biology.
As a Research Biologist with Biodiversity Research Institute (BRI) he is the director of the Mammal program, and is actively involved with various field studies focusing on wildlife conservation and management and the health assessment of aquatic ecosystems through contaminant screening. He is currently conducting live-capture, tracking, and sampling studies on mink, otter, beaver and muskrat. Along with this he is also researching bats as an indicator species for mercury exposure. This project is across the eastern U.S. at both point source and non-point source sites. Along with all this he conduct inventories for small and large mammals for the various state agencies and federal government.
Research Interests
Determining contaminant exposure and reproductive productivity of wild populations of mustelids, small and large mammals and many bat species.
Current Species Studied
- Chiroptera
- River Otter
- Mink
- Muskrat
- Beaver
- Shrew
- Voles and Lemmings
- Canada Lynx
- Seals
Publications and Reports:
- Evers, D. C., L. Savoy, C. DeSorbo, D. Yates, W. Hanson, K.M. Taylor, L. Siegel, J.H. Cooley, M.S. Bank, A. Major, K. Munney, B.F. Mower, H.S. Vogel, N. Schoch, M. Pokras, M.W. Goodale, and J. Fair. 2008. Adverse effects from environmental methylmercury loads on breeding common loons. Ecotoxicology 16: In Press. DOI: 10.1007/s10646-007-0168.
- Yates and D.C. Evers. 2007. Pilot assessment of methlymercury availability to furbearers on the North Fork of the Holston River, Virginia - 2005. Report BRI 2007-10 submitted to the U.S. Fish Wildl. Serv., Gloucester, Virginia. BioDiversity Research Institute, Gorham, ME.
- Yates, D., and D.C. Evers. 2006. Assessment of bats for mercury contamination on the North Fork of the Holston River, VA- 2005. Report BRI 2006-9. BioDiversity Research Institute, Gorham, ME.
- Yates, D., D.C. Evers, and W. Goodale. 2006. Monitoring of breeding Common Loons: West Branch of the Penobscot River area - 2005. Report BRI 2006-05. BioDiversity Research Institute, Gorham, ME. pp.30
- Yates, D.E. and D. Evers. 2005. An overall assessment of the loon population at Lake Umbagog National Wildlife Refuge: Investigations into individual-specific demographics and assessment of individual and population health. Report BRI 2004-13 BioDiversity Research Institute, Gorham, Maine. 17pp.
- Yates, D., D. T. Mayack, K. Munney, D. C. Evers, A. Major, T. Kaur, and R. J. Taylor. 2005. Mercury Levels in Mink (Mustela vison) and River Otter (Lontra canadensis) from Northeastern North America. Ecotoxicology, 14, 263-274.
- Yates, D., D.C. Evers, W. Goodale, and W. MacCabe. 2005. Monitoring of breeding Common Loons: West Branch of the Penobscot River area - 2004. Report BRI 2005-10. BioDiversity Research Institute, Gorham, ME. 27 pp.
- Yates, D., DeSorbo C., and Evers, D. C. 2005 Flagstaff Lake common loon population and productivity surveys and management efforts - final report. Unpubl. Rep. submitted to Central Maine Power Co., Augusta
- Yates, D., L. Savoy, D. Evers, C. DeSorbo, W. Goodale, L. Attix, A. Paul, C. Niven, E. Saxson, and M. Nelson. 2005. Documentation of the reproductive success of the Common Loon on selected lakes in the Rangeley Lakes and Eagle Lake Regions in 2004. Report BRI 2005-06 submitted to the New England Forestry Foundation. BioDiversity Research Institute, Gorham, ME. 60pp
- Yates, D., D.C. Evers, and L. Savoy. 2004. Developing a mercury exposure profile for mink and river otter in Maine. Report BRI 2004-09 submitted to Maine Department of Environmental Protection and Maine Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. BioDiversity Research Institute, Gorham, Maine.
- Yates, D., DeSorbo C., and Evers, D. C. 2004 Flagstaff Lake common loon population and productivity surveys and management efforts - final report. Unpubl. Rep. submitted to Central Maine Power Co., Augusta
- Yates, D., DeSorbo C., and Evers, D. C. 2003 Flagstaff Lake common loon population and productivity surveys and management efforts - final report. Unpubl. Rep. submitted to Central Maine Power Co., Augusta
- Yates, D., DeSorbo C., and Evers, D. C. 2002 Flagstaff Lake common loon population and productivity surveys and management efforts - final report. Unpubl. Rep. submitted to Central Maine Power Co., Augusta.
- Yates, D., DeSorbo C., and Evers, D. C. 2001 Flagstaff Lake common loon population and productivity surveys and management efforts - final report. Unpubl. Rep. submitted to Central Maine Power Co., Augusta.
- Yates, D., DeSorbo C., and Evers, D. C. 2000 Flagstaff Lake common loon population and productivity surveys and management efforts - final report. Unpubl. Rep. submitted to Central Maine Power Co., Augusta.
- Yates, D., DeSorbo C., and Evers, D. C. 1999 Flagstaff Lake common loon population and productivity surveys and management efforts - final report. Unpubl. Rep. submitted to Central Maine Power Co., Augusta.