Bat Week | Meet the Experts | Larisa Bishop-Boros

What got you into bats or brought you to WEST? White-nose syndrome first struck North American bats in 2006 in upstate New York near where I was completing undergraduate research, so I was inspired to apply for National Science Foundation funding to study survey techniques for these aerial acrobats and the rest was history. Also, […]

WEST Publication: Dynamic soaring decouples dynamic body acceleration and energetics in albatross

WEST Senior Biologist Melinda Conners on our offshore team is lead author on the recently published research article, Dynamic soaring decouples dynamic body acceleration and energetics in albatross, published in the Journal of Experimental Biology. This paper describes flight costs of two species of dynamic soaring birds: black-browed and grey-headed #albatrosses from the Southern Ocean.  […]