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Wing Goodale
Senior Research Biologist
Phone: (207) 839-7600 ex. 109 /Fax: (207) 839-7655
Biography
Wing Goodale is a senior research biologist and coastal bird program director at BioDiversity Research Institute. He carries outs diverse fieldwork from conducting bird surveys to testing seabird eggs for mercury to capturing and collecting blood from bald eagles. When not in the field, Goodale prepares scientific papers, conducts GIS analysis, manages Biodiversity's Web site, and oversees BRI's live eagle Web camera. Outside of work, he is on the Maine Board of Environmental Protection, is a member of the Falmouth Shellfish Committee, and Falmouth Conservation Commission. Prior to BioDiversity, Goodale studied wildlife in many regions of the continental U.S., worked with endangered species in Hawaii, assessed a macaw reintroduction project in Costa Rica, and assisted in an expedition to the lowland rainforest in Brazil. For his work he has been recognized as a National Fellow of the Explorers Club. Goodale has a bachelor's degree in biology from Colorado College and master's degree in conservation biology from College of the Atlantic.
Research Interests
Determining contaminant exposure, and population density of seabirds in Maine, and New England.
Current Species Studied
- Leach's Storm Petrels
- Cormorants
- Common Terns
Publications/Presentations
- Evers, David C., L.J. Savoy, C. R. DeSorbo, D. E. Yates, W. Hanson, K. M. Taylor, L. S. Siegel, J. H. Cooley Jr., M. S. Bank, A. Major, K. Munney, B. F. Mower, H. S. Vogel, N. Schoch, M. Pokras, M. W. Goodale, and J. Fair. 2007. Adverse effects from environmental mercury loads on breeding common loons. Ecotoxicology (in press). (1)
- Evers, David C., Han, Y, Driscoll, C., T., Kamman, N., C., Goodale, M., W., Lambert, K., F., Holsen, T. M., Chen, C. Y., Clair, T. A., and Butler, T. 2007. Biological mercury hotspots in the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada. BioScience 57: 29-43.(1)
- Driscoll, C.T., D. Evers, K.F. Lambert, N. Kamman, T. Holsen, Y-J. Han, C. Chen, W. Goodale, T. Butler, T. Clair, and R. Munson. Mercury Matters: Linking Mercury Science with Public Policy in the Northeastern United States. Hubbard Brook Research Foundation. 2007. Science Links Publication. Vol. 1, no. 3.(1)
- Goodale, W., L. Attix, and D. Evers. 2005. Common Loon, Gavia immer, nest attendance patterns recorded by remote video camera. Canadian Field-Naturalist 119: 455-456. (1)
- Evers, D. C., N. M. Burgess, L. Champoux, B. Hoskins, A. Major, W. Goodale, R. J. Taylor, R. Poppenga, and T. Daigle. 2005. Patterns and interpretation of mercury exposure in freshwater avian communities in northeastern North America. Ecotoxicology 14: 193-221.(1,3)
- Kamman, N., N. M. Burgess, C. T. Driscoll, H. A. Simonin, W. Goodale, J. Linehan, R. Estabrook, M. Hutcheson, A. Major, and A. M. Scheuhammer. 2005. Mercury in freshwater fish of northeast North America - a geographic perspective based on fish tissue monitoring databases. Ecotoxicology 14: 163-180.(1)
- Kaur, T. J. Singh, W. Goodale, D. Kramar, and P. Nelson. 2005. Developing a cyberinfrastructure for integrated assessments of environmental contaminants. Ecotoxicology 14: 275-281.(1)
- Kramar, D. W. Goodale, L. Kennedy, B. Carstensen, and T. Kaur. 2005. Relating cover characteristics and common loon mercury levels using geographical information systems. Ecotoxicology 14: 253-262.(1)
- Evers, D.C., O. P. Lane, L. Savoy, and W. Goodale. 2004. Assessing the impacts of methylmercury on piscivorous wildlife using a wildlife criterion value based on the common loon, 1998-2003. A report submitted to Maine Department of Environmental Protection. http://www.briloon.org/pub/doc/wcv(2004-05).pdf.(1)
- Goodale, W. 2001. Herring gulls' use of lobster bait during the breeding season in Penobscot Bay, Maine. College of the Atlantic masters thesis.(1)
