BioDiversity Research Institute

David C. Evers

President, Executive Director, and Chief Scientist
Phone: (207) 839-7600 ex. 110/Fax: (207) 839-7655

Biography

Dave received his bachelor's degree in Wildlife Management from Michigan State University (1984), and his Master of Science in Ecology from Western Michigan University (1992). During this time, he worked as a field ornithologist for the Michigan Breeding Bird Atlas and as a wildlife ecologist for the Kalamazoo Nature Center. In 1991, he became Executive Director of the Whitefish Point Bird Observatory. He returned to school for a PhD in Conservation Biology at the University of Minnesota (2001). In 1998, he founded the BioDiversity Research Institute to further progressive wildlife research and conservation. Dave holds positions as Adjunct professor at both the University of Southern Maine, where he teaches ornithology, and University of Maine at Orono. He is also the Adjunct Senior Scientist at the University of Southern Maine's Center for Integrated and Applied Environmental technology. Dave often testifies or presents scientific results to Congressional committees, state legislative committees, and other regulatory branches of government. Dave has published four books on the Common Loon, the Northwoods, and endangered and threatened species.

Research Interests

• Conservation of endangered species
• Exposure and effects of methylmercury on wildlife in temperate, tropical, arctic, and marine environs
• Ecology, natural history and conservation of the common loon and other loon species

Books and other Publications:

• Evers, D.C. and K. M. Taylor. 2008. Call of the Northwoods. Willow Creek Press, Minocqua, WI.
• Evers, D. C. and K. M. Taylor. 2006. Call of the Loon. Willow Creek Press, Minocqua, WI. 112 pp.
• Evers, D.C. 2005. Mercury connections: The extents and effects of mercury pollution in northeastern North America. BioDiversity Research Institute, Gorham, ME. 24pp.
• Evers, D. C. (editor). 1994. Endangered and threatened wildlife of Michigan. Univ. Mich. Press, Ann Arbor, MI. 412pp.
• Evers, D. C. 1992. A Guide to Michigan's Endangered Wildlife. Univ. of Mich. Press, Ann Arbor, MI. 103pp.

Peer-reviewed Publications (recent):

In press

• Greenberg R, Demarest DW, Droege S, Evers D, Hamel PB, Hodgman TP, Luscier J, Matsuoka SM, Mettke-Hofmann C, Powell LL, Shaw D, Avery ML, Hobson KA, Blancher PJ, Niven DK, Van Wilgenburg SL.  Understanding declines in rusty blackbirds.  Studies in Avian Biology.

2009

• Franceschini, M.D., Lane, O.P., Evers, D.C., Reed, J.M., and Romero, L.M.  Mercury contamination and plasma corticosterone in free-living tree swallows, Tachycineta bicolor.  Ecotoxicology 18:514-521
• Kenow, K.P., Adams, D., Schoch, N., Evers, D., Hanson, W., Major, A., Fox, T.J., and Kratt, R. Migration patterns and wintering range of common loons breeding in the northeastern United States. Waterbirds 32(2): 234-247
• Evers D.C., Graham R.T., Perkins P., Michener R., Divoll T.  Mercury concentrations in the goliath grouper of Belize: an anthropogenic stressor of concern. Endangered Species Research DOI: 10.3354/esr00158 .

2008

• Evers, D.C, Mason R.P, Kamman N.C., Chen C.Y., Bogomolni A.L., Taylor D.L., Hammerschmidt C.R., Jones S.H., Burgess N.M., Munney K., Parsons K.C.  An integrated mercury monitoring program for temperate estuarine and marine ecosystems on the North American Atlantic Coast. EcoHealth 5:426-441.
• Goodale M.W., Evers D.C., Mierzykowski S.E., Bond A.L., Burgess N.M., Otorowski C.I., Welch L.J., Hall C.S., Ellis J.C., Allen R.B., Diamond A.W., Kress S.W., Taylor R.J.  Marine foraging birds as bioindicators of mercury in the Gulf of Maine. EcoHealth 5:409-425.
• Chen C.Y., Serrell N., Evers D.C., Fleishman B.J., Lambert K.F., Weiss J., Mason R.P., Bank M.S.  Methylmercury in marine ecosystems: From sources to seafood consumers. Environmental Health Perspectives DOI:10.1289/ehp.1121
• Mitro, M.G., Evers, D.C., Meyer, M.W., and Piper, W.H.  Common loon survival rates and mercury in New England and Wisconsin. J. Wildl. Manage 72:665-673.
• DeSorbo, C.R., J. Fair, K.M. Taylor, W. Hanson, D.C. Evers, and H.S. Vogel. Construction and deployment guidelines for artificial floating islands for nesting common loons. Northeastern Naturalist.  15:75-86.
• Evers, D.C., L. Savoy, C.R. DeSorbo, D. Yates, W. Hanson, K.M. Taylor, L. Siegel, J.H. Cooley, M. Bank, A. Major, K. Munney, H.S. Vogel, N. Schoch, M. Pokras, W. Goodale, and J. Fair.  Adverse effects from environmental mercury loads on breeding common loons. Ecotoxicology 17:69-81.

2007

• Evers, D.C.  Status assessment and conservation plan for the Common Loon in North America. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Tech. Rept. Hadley, Massachusetts.
• Mager, J.N., Walcott, C.W. and Evers, D.C.  Macrogeographic changes in yodels related to body mass in the common loon. Waterbirds 30:64-72.
• Wolfe, M.F., Atkeson, T., Bowerman, W., Burger, K., Evers, D.C., Murray, M.W. and Zillioux, E.   Wildlife Indicators.  In:  R. Harris, D.P. Krabbenhoft, R. Mason, M.W. Murray, R. Reash and T. Saltman (Ed.), Ecosystem Response to Mercury Contamination: Indicators of Change (pp. 123-189).  SETAC, Webster, NY: CRC Press.    
• Evers, D.C., Y.J. Han, C.T. Driscoll, N.C. Kamman, M.W. Goodale, K.F. Lambert, T.M. Holsen, C.Y. Chen, T.A. Clair, and T. Butler.  Identification and Evaluation of Biological Hotspots of Mercury in the Northeastern U.S. and Eastern Canada. Bioscience 57:29-43.
• DeSorbo, C.R., K.M. Taylor,  J. Fair, D. Kramar, J.L. Atwood, D.C. Evers, W. Hanson, and H.S. Vogel Characterizing reproductive advantages for common loons (Gavia immer) nesting on artificial floating islands. J. Wildlife Manage. 71:1206-1213.
• Driscoll, C.T., Y.J. Han, C.Y. Chen, D.C. Evers, K.F. Lambert, T.M. Holsen, N.C. Kamman, and R. Munson.  Mercury contamination in remote forest and aquatic ecosystems in the northeastern U.S.: Sources, transformations and management options.  Bioscience 57:17-28.
• Bank, M.S., J.R. Burgess, D.C. Evers, and C.S. Loftin.  Mercury contamination of biota from Acadia National Park, Maine: a review. S. Kahl (ed.). Establishing paired gauged watersheds at Acadia National Park for long-term research on acidic deposition, nitrogen saturation, forest health, and mercury biogeochemistry (1998-2002).  Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 126:105-115.

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