Come join researcher and PhD Candidate Katie Fitzgerald for her talk entitles “Bats and Forest Management”! Katie is currently working with Dr. Joy O’Keefe in the Human-Wildlife Interactions Lab, focused on research that facilitates the coexistence of wildlife and humans in human-altered landscapes. Katie’s Ph.D. research focuses on monitoring the health of Indiana bats (Myotis […]
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Come join researcher and author Dr. Alyson Brokaw for her talk entitled “Sights, Scents, and Sounds: The Sensory World of Bats”! Dr. Brokaw is a professor at Cedar Crest College in Pennsylvania where her research focuses on the intersection between behavioral ecology and sensory biology; how bats and other mammals use sensory information during foraging,
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Come join PhD Student and GBatNet Student Representative Cheyenne Graham for her talk “Love across species lines: A crash course in hybridization”. Cheyenne is a Ph.D. student in Dr. Kelly Speer’s lab at the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan. For her research she studies the relationship between hybridization and the immune system of bats,
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Come join Dr. Gerald Carter, Associate Professor at Princeton University, Freeman Hrabowski Scholar at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and a Research Associate at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Dr. Carter loves thinking and learning about the evolution and ecology of cooperation, communication, and cognition in both humans and nonhuman animals. He is particularly interested
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Come join PhD student and GBatNet representative Andrea Bernal Rivera for this months talk “Buffet for bats: A feast of dietary diversity”! Andrea is a PhD student at University of Washington in Seattle where her research focuses on the interplay of physiology and ecology related to bat evolution. Andrea is also an associate researcher at
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Come join Dr. Reed Crawford from the University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign for his talk “A global review of bat box research”! Dr. Crawford completed his PhD this year in the Human-Wildlife Interactions Lab. His research focused on the thermoregulatory strategies used by endangered Indiana bats (Myotis sodalis) in both artificial and natural roosts. The
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Come join University of New Mexicos PhD Candidate and American Society of Mammalogist Fellow (’23), Connor Burgin, for his talk titled “Why and how are museums are used in bat research?” The talk will be available FREE via Zoom on 09 April 2025 at 9 AM Eastern US Time, and will be made available for
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Come join GBatNet Student Representative Pedro Monico, Brazilian evolutionary biologist and a PhD candidate at Rutgers, in New Jersey, USA, for his presentation on how we use biogeography to study bats. The presentation will explore how living organisms (especially bats!) are distributed across the planet, the factors that shape their distributions, and the available tools to
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Come join GBatNet Student Representative Lexi Frank, a PhD student at the University of Minnesota, for a workshop-style demonstration on how to use DNA in the field for bat species identification! In her talk titled “Bat ID on the Fly: How to use DNA to Identify Species in the Field,” she will walk us through
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Come learn about conservation endocrinology in bat research! The webinar, titled “Conservation Endocrinology – A Focus on Stress Physiology in Bats” will be given by Dr. Lydia Nixon, a Visiting Assistant Professor at North Dakota State University, via Zoom on 13 November 2024 at 9 AM Eastern US Time, and will be made available for
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