Kathryn McGowan

Researcher and Biologist • Bats, Birds, Bioacoustics • Graduate Assistant in Wildlife Biology Lab at Ball State • Ocean Enthusiast

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Perimyotis subflavus 🦇

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Grad school is chasing escaped pill bugs around the lab room while the rest of your students vote on whether or not an Alewife is a cute fish. #gradstudentlife #GA

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@SBCubs where is swoop? 😭

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@SBCubs

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@SBCubs we had five tickets and had to improvise.

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#fieldworkfail jumped into a pond to rescue some of my adviser’s field equipment and woke up with raging swimmers itch. At least the equipment came out unscathed #Parasites #gooseproject

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I didn’t realize studying wildlife biology meant so many trips to Menards. 🦇 #acoustics

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This research assistant does more play hard than work hard #catsinSTEM

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Different as night and day: wild bats modify echolocation in complex environments when visual cues are present

Study in #Animal #Behaviour by @_katemcgowan & @ProfLKloepper: https://t.co/Bi0lfrkxK7

#mammals #mammalogy @NDBios #AnimalBehaviour

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@ProfLKloepper 👏👏👏

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@ProfLKloepper Best advisor ever! Thanks for everything you do!

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First publication today! Thanks to all Brazilian free-tailed bats and to @ProfLKloepper for the opportunity! 🦇 🦇 🦇 #kloepperlab #animalbehaviour

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@ProfLKloepper @saintmarys This is beautiful. What a great way to honor the 2020 graduates!

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@ashleighsnyder @somegoodnews @johnkrasinski MISS YOU @ashleighsnyder ❤️

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Found my next EchoMeter spot for the summer #batsofwashington

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@ProfLKloepper Is this Nathaniel’s second conference? He’s going to be so well-traveled! =)

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New use for snowshoes - worn to prevent sinking into the flooded bog while setting up acoustic recording equipment! All for the love of bats! 🦇🦇🦇

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Being a professional ballroom dancer before starting a field biologist career has its merits: the combination of using Tango knees with Latin footwork is a great way to get your waders unstuck when you are quickly sinking into a wetland. #dancersinSTEM

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Thanks @WildlifeAcoust for your assistance in the 2019 WNS monitoring field season. 16 sites down, 16 to go! #WNSawareness

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Interesting and engaging talk by Phil Stepanian @RadarAndStuff on using radar to track flights and count colonies!