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Wind Energy: A Scare for Bats and Birds
USGS Corecast - www.usgs.gov/corecast
21 Oct 2009
Several USGS scientists are investigating the problem of fatal bat and bird collisions with wind turbines. USGS scientist and bat specialist Dr. Paul Cryan at the Fort Collins Science Center chats with Juliette Wilson about whether we can have our wind turbines and healthy populations of bats and birds too.
Reported Wildlife Mortality Events to the USGS National Wildlife Health Center UpdatedUSGS National Wildlife Health Center
21 Oct 2009
Area: United States
USGS and a network of partners across the country work on documenting wildlife mortality events in order to provide timely and accurate information on locations, species and causes of death. This information was updated on Oct 20, 2009 on the USGS National Wildlife Health Center web page, New and Ongoing Wildlife Mortality Events Nationwide. Quarterly Mortality Reports are also available from this page. These reports go back to 1995.
Texas A&M oceanographer receives $3.7 million grant to study Gulf dead zone
EurekAlert - www.eurekalert.org
20 Oct 2009
Oceanographer Steve DiMarco of Texas A&M University, a leading authority on the Gulf of Mexico's "dead zone," and his team of researchers have been awarded $725,467 for the first year of a five-year, $3.72 million project that seeks to better understand and predict where and when the dead zone will happen each year. This new project builds on six prior years of funding.
The Northern Gulf of Mexico Ecosystems and Hypoxia Assessment Program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently announced first-year funding for a new study under DiMarco titled "Mechanisms Controlling Hypoxia: Integrated Causal Modeling," which is expected to continue for the next five years.
OTHER WILDLIFE HEALTH RELATED NEWS
Photo credit: Paul Chinn/SFC
EurekAlert - www.eurekalert.org
20 Oct 2009
Oceanographer Steve DiMarco of Texas A&M University, a leading authority on the Gulf of Mexico's "dead zone," and his team of researchers have been awarded $725,467 for the first year of a five-year, $3.72 million project that seeks to better understand and predict where and when the dead zone will happen each year. This new project builds on six prior years of funding.
The Northern Gulf of Mexico Ecosystems and Hypoxia Assessment Program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently announced first-year funding for a new study under DiMarco titled "Mechanisms Controlling Hypoxia: Integrated Causal Modeling," which is expected to continue for the next five years.
OTHER WILDLIFE HEALTH RELATED NEWS
Photo credit: Paul Chinn/SFC
Checkerspot butterfly next on endangered list? [California]- Petition filed in U.S. to protect coral species from extinction
- NOAA, Navy To Protect Whales From Deadly Sonar Off Guam Coast
- Invasive snails killing off native oysters [California]
- New Deer Carcass Movement Restrictions in Local CWD Zone [Wisconsin]
- Red kite numbers hit record high [Scotland]
- Key species show health [Australia]
- 'Giant' orb web spider discovered
- Sparrows 'learn song by twitter'
- Alligators Sing to Set Up Singles Clubs?
- Turtles prefer the 'city life'
WILDLIFE HEALTH RELATED PUBLICATIONS
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Protective measures and H5N1-seroprevalence among personnel tasked with bird collection during an outbreak of avian influenza A/H5N1 in wild birds, Ruegen, Germany, 2006
BMC Infect Dis. 2009 Oct 18;9(1):170. [Epub ahead of print][free full-text available]
W Cai et al.
Scared sick? Predator–pathogen facilitation enhances exploitation of a shared resource
Ecology. 2009; 90(10): 2832-2839
RA Ramirez and WE Snyder
Examination of presence of specific antibodies against avian influenza virus in some species of wild birds
Acta veterinaria. 2009; 59(4): 381-403 [free full-text available]
Š Milanko et al.
Determination of hemagglutinin and neuraminidase subtypes of avian influenza A viruses in urban pigeons by a new nested RT-PCR
Acta Virologica. 2009; 53(3): 213-216
P. Gronesová et al.
Prions: Protein Aggregation and Infectious Diseases
Physiol. Rev. 2009; 89: 1105-1152
A Aguzzi and AM Calella
