Bat Week | Meet the Experts | Juliet Nagel
I fell in love with bats during a tropical ecology course during my undergraduate degree. While traveling in Costa Rica, we were lucky enough to visit a research center where they were mist-netting bats. I had never seen a bat up close before, and the fruit bats with striped faces, nectar bats with crazy long […]
Bat Week | Meet the Experts | Brenna Hyzy
1) What got you into bats or brought you to WEST? I studied abroad in college when I was 19 and worked on an invasive mongoose project. The professor leading that project was a bat biologist. I was badly bitten by one of the mongoose harem males (which apparently impressed her) and she invited me […]
Bat Week | Meet the Experts | Kaitlyn Torrey
1) What got you into bats or brought you to WEST? I first got interested in bats during undergrad while taking mammalogy and just thought they were the coolest animals, and when I found out about white-nose syndrome impacting bats I knew I had to get into bat conservation somehow. 2) What you love most […]
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. […]
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WEST is Hiring! Detection Dog Teams
Working outside all day with your dog… Meeting your dog’s need to keep their mind busy… Contributing to wildlife conservation by collecting ground-level data… Curious to learn more? Keep following for more information about what it would take for you and your dog to become a wildlife detection dog team! WEST is hiring detection dog […]
WEST is Hiring!
What could be more rewarding than conducting field work with your best friend and contributing to bat conservation? WEST’s detection dog team is growing again and we are hiring multiple positions in Indiana and Ohio. Our detection dog biologists collect important information on bat mortality, which is used to measure impacts, contribute to research, and inform management […]