AMBC Annual Meetings
2016 Meeting, New Bern, NC
2017 Webinar
Reports and Publications of Interest
At-sea Surveys
- Atlantic Marine Assessment Program for Protected Species (AMAPPS)
USFWS-BOEM Aerial Survey Report (2010-2014); NOAA-BOEM Shipboard-Aerial Survey Reports - Modeling At-Sea Density of Marine Birds to Support Atlantic Marine Renewable Energy Planning (NOAA-NCCOS)
Colony Management & Monitoring
- North American Waterbird Conservation Plan (2002)
- Mid-Atlantic/New England/Maritimes (MANEM) Waterbird Plan + Appendix (2006)
- Southeast United States Regional Waterbird Conservation Plan + Table (2006)
Seabird Tracking
- Tracking offshore occurrence of Common Terns, endangered Roseate Terns, and threatened Piping Plovers with VHF arrays + Appendices (Loring et al., 2019)
- Movements and foraging habitats of Great Shearwaters (Puffinus gravis) in the Gulf of Maine (Powers et al., 2017)
- Determining fine-scale use and movement patterns of diving bird species in federal waters of the Mid-Atlantic United States using satellite telemetry (Spiegel et al., 2017)
- First satellite tracks of the endangered black-capped petrel (Jodice et al. 2015)
Foraging Ecology, Diet & Prey
- The role of sand lances (Ammodytes sp.) in the Northwest Atlantic Ecosystem: A synthesis of current knowledge with implications for conservation and management (Staudinger et al. 2020)
- A synthesis of changing phenology in the Gulf of Maine ecosystem (Staudinger et al., 2019)
Bycatch
- Business Plan for Addressing & Reducing Marine Bird Bycatch in Atlantic U.S. Fisheries (2011 draft)
- Seabird bycatch vulnerability to pelagic longline fisheries: Ecological traits matter (Zhou et al., 2019)
- Comprehensive estimates of seabird–fishery interactions for the US Northeast and mid‐Atlantic (J.M. Hatch, 2018)
Marine Debris
Disease
Useful Links
Marine Bird Abundance & Distribution
- Ocean Data Portals – Northeast, Mid-Atlantic
- Gulf of Mexico Marine Assessment Program for Protected Species (GOMAPPS)
- Atlantic Marine Assessment Program for Protected Species (AMAPPS)
Coordinated Colonial Waterbird Monitoring
Beached Bird Monitoring
Offshore Energy Development
- Bureau of Ocean Energy Management – Completed Bird and Bat Study Reports
- Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Avian Survey Guidelines (2017)
- NY State Energy Research and Development Authority Offshore Wind-Wildlife Efforts (Environmental Technical Working Group)
Fisheries Interactions
Marine Debris
NOAA Marine Debris Program