Science4Bats

An interdisciplinary research team studying the bioenergetic effects of white-nose syndrome in western bat species across North America 🦇

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Another fantastic SERDP team meeting talking about WNS, bats, and bioenergetics! This time in Bozeman, MT - land of mountains, beer, and apparently rain! @rainamontana @Cori_Lausen @soriding @danewingcrowley @cRHranac @BatmanateePhD @dtsh2

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Thanks to #SERDP for the funding for this project!

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Our work was featured in the New York Times!

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Our work was featured in the New York Times!

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Next stop on our western park tour in between field sites!

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Finished up our field site and took some time to drive through Canyonlands on our drive to our next site!

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One of the many things we love about our job is visiting areas of the country many people do not get a chance to visit.

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And we're off! Headed to our first field site of our *last* winter field season! We will continue to post photos about our adventures and some fun bat facts!

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Want to Be a #Bat Hero This Halloween? Don't Visit the Batcave. #BatWeek Op-Ed from our own Dr. Catherine G Haase as part of our #SERDP project! https://t.co/Jze98DMHBd via @LiveScience @BatmanateePhD

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#BatWeek is game on! https://t.co/b8HVYnoiLE

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Bat Week: The Super Powers of Bats (Photos) | By Sarah Olson and Julie Larsen Maher https://t.co/zaymkdhiXR via @Mongabay #BatWeek #BatWeek2018 #bats #Halloween

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Nate's pic of a Towsend's big-eared bat is included in this photo blog celebrating #BatWeek! https://t.co/WOehVa6Ndo

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We are excited to participate in #BatWeek and highlight our #SERDP project with Dr. Sarah Olson of @TheWCS! Dr. Olson is assessing white-nose syndrome in western North American #bat species. Check out the @science4bats website to learn more: https://t.co/oxcaGA1cOe

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Plague marching west: researchers study bats to stop their demise https://t.co/PtFbrLuO6U @BatmanateePhD @soriding @Cori_Lausen @rainamontana @danewingcrowley @dtsh2

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We've been out of cell service these last few days, but we've had no updates anyway as we got skunked! Tonight we are trying again. At least the scenery is pretty...and those stars! 😲 We can't help but love this site!

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@Nv_pyromelana @HenlakeBats Yup!

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Though we've caught 4 species of bats at our first field site, we are mostly getting the long-eared bat, M. evotis. We've caught over 75 of these guys in the last week!

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Last night our fearless leader @soriding joined us in catching bats, armed with watermelon!

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Besides identifying species, we also look at wing health, measure forearm length, and determine age and sex of each bat.

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What characteristics can you look for when identifying bats? Here we have a fringed myotis (M. thysanoides; left) with its distinctive tail fringe, and long-legged bat (M. volans; right), with its distinctive keeled calcar.

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Our mobile laboratory is called the 'Portable Ecological Research Lab' aka PERL. And it's black. So it's the Black PERL. So of course we got a Jolly Roger flag.

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Snow has already flown at our Montana site this fall, but at least it wasn't as deep as it was in January 2018. https://t.co/SoUzRKaina