North American Loon Symposium. October 25-26, 2014, Ashland, WI.
2014 North American Loon Symposium Program (PDF)
2014 North American Loon Symposium Program Schedule (PDF)
Working Groups
- 2014 Loon Symposium Working Group list by name
- 2014 Loon Symposium — Loon Population Monitoring and Citizen Science Working Group Agenda
- 2014 Loon Symposium — Research Directions and Conservation Strategies Working Group
- Working Groups Survey
- Survey Data
Symposium Presentations
Saturday October 25, 2014
[KEYNOTE] Mike Meyer. Recent research innovations advance Common Loon conservation in North America. (PDF)
Joseph Kaplan and Damon McCormick. Tragedy of the commons: Great Lakes botulism. (PDF)
Tiffany Grade and Harry S. Vogel. Contaminants in the food web and the decline of the Common Loon population on Squam Lake, NH. (PDF)
Alec R. Lindsay, Jeffrey M. DaCosta, Michael D. Sorenson. Links between breeding, migrating and wintering common loon (Gavia immer) populations with genome-wide RAD-tag SNP data. (PDF)
Nina Schoch, Michelle Kneeland, Mark Pokras, Virginia Stout. For the health of loons! North American Common Loon Health Assessment Study. (PDF)
James D. Paruk. An update on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and its potential impacts on Common Loons (Gavia immer) wintering in the Gulf of Mexico. (PDF)
Margaret P. Comfort. The Loon Network: A unique approach to loon conservation in Northwest Michigan. (PDF)
Paul Spitzer. Wintering loons in Menhaden. (PDF)
Neil Burgess. Assessing the risks of mercury exposure to Common Loons across Canada. (PDF)
Kevin Kenow, Timothy Fox, Robert Kratt, Steven Houdek, Luke Fara, Larry Robinson, Pete Boma, Darryl Heard, Michael Meyer, Brian Lubinski. Migration and foraging patterns of common loons breeding in the Upper Midwest. (PDF)
Vincent Spagnuolo. Restore the call: A scientific initiative to restore and recover loon populations to their former range. (PDF)
Paul Spitzer. Common loon movements and migrations, 2011-2012. (PDF)
Michelle Kneeland, Dave Evers, Jim Paruk, Kristin Kovach, Mark Pokras, Nina Schoch, Ginger Stout. Common Loon chick translocation and captive rearing 2014 Minnesota Pilot Study. (PDF)
Jeff Fair. Yellow-billed Loons. (PDF)
Mark Pokras, Nancy Makuch, Julia Graham. COLO CSI. Don’t we all love solving mysteries? (PDF)
Carrie Gray and Andrew Gilbert. Migration routes and staging areas of Red-throated Loons in the Atlantic Flyway. (PDF)
Ellen Martinsen, Nina Schoch, Mark Pokras. Malaria and other blood parasites of Common Loons from the Northeastern US. (PDF)
Sunday October 26, 2014
Charles Walcott. Yodels.
Sara Moses. Mercury in the environment and food webs. (PDF)
Jay Mager. Vocal signals.
Mike Meyer, Kevin Kenow, William Karasov, Carl Watras, Neil Burgess. Quantifying the ecological benefits of mercury emission reductions in Wisconsin. (PDF)
Walter Piper. Territory settlement.
Jason Greer. Yellow-billed Loons (MP4)
Marge Gibson. Loon rehabilitation. (PDF)
Jeff Wilson, Steven Thielking, Bruce Bacon, Terry Daulton. Using motion detection cameras to monitor Common Loon nests in the Turtle Flambeau Flowage Scenic Waters Area, 2012. (PDF)