Laboratory Capabilities
Mercury Lab Manager
Kevin Regan
kevin.regan@briloon.org
207.839.7600 x107
After a decade researching mercury contamination in wildlife, BRI established its own mercury lab. Samples, analyzed for total mercury, provide mercury concentration (in parts per million) in feathers, fur, blood, muscle biopsies from fish, talon tips, whole mollusks (mussels and snails) and arthropods (insects, spiders, and amphipods).
In addition to its own laboratory capabilities, BRI has established relationships with distinguished labs around the country for specialty work:
Species Most at Risk to Mercury Exposure
- Common loon*
- Ivory gull
- Rusty blackbird*
- Saltmarsh sparrow*
- Florida panther
- Indiana bat*
- Great hammerhead shark*
- Walleye
- River otter*
- Wood stork
* BRI research includes these species
Mercury and Metals
- Texas A&M
- University of Connecticut
- Wright State University
- Dartmouth College
Stable Isotopes
- Boston University
- University of Florida
- University of Washington
- Northern Arizona State
Genetics
- Buffalo State University
- University of New Hampshire
PAH5
- University of Connecticut
Organics
- Texas A&M
- Wadsworth Center