Sessions on 12 April include ‘Habitat Use,’ ‘Conservation and Ecology of Bats,’ ‘Acoustics,’ ‘Technological Advances’ and ‘Poster.’
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Habitat Use
Conservation and Ecology of Bats
Acoustics
Technological Advances
Poster Session
0845 - 0900 am
Winter Occupancy Trends of Hibernating Cave Myotis in the South Central Great Plains
Katie Gillies, Jonah Evans, Lynda Loucks, Jason Shaw, and William Caire
0900 - 0915 am
Long-term Trends of Hibernating Bat Abundance in Southern Idaho: Implications for Conservation and Management Jericho C. Whiting, Brent Sewall, Bill Doering, G.J. Wright, Devin Englestead, Justin Frye, and Todd Stefanic
0915 - 0930 am
Habitat Selection of Corynorhinus townsendii in Volcanic Caves at Lava Beds National Monument Katrina Smith, Daniel Barton, and David Riggs
0930 - 0945 am
Establishing a Pre-WNS Baseline for Bats on a Remote Island Archipelago Carita Bergman, Elin Price, and Leah Russ
0945 - 1000 am
Western Bats as a Reservoir of Actinobacteria Species with Antifungal Activity Debbie Buecher, Paris Hamm, Nicole Caimi, Diana Northup, Ara Winter, Ernie Valdez, and Andrea Porras-Alfaro
1020 - 1035 am
Winter and Summer Torpor in a Free-ranging Subtropical Desert Bat, Myotis vivesi Dave Johnston, Valeria Salinas R., Jose Juan Flores-Martinez, and L. Gerardo Herrera M.
1035 - 1050 am
Conservation of Endangered Pollinators: Designing Community “Bat-friendly” Agave Management Programs in Northeast Mexico through Interdisciplinary Research
Kristen Lear, Jeffrey Hepinstall-Cymerman, Elizabeth King, Laura German, Clint Moore, Meredith Welch-Devine, and Jose Juan Flores Maldonado
1050 - 1105 am
Climate Change Modeling Reveals Major Shifts in Suitable Habitat Niches for Western North American Bats
Mattia Piccioloi, Daniel Taylor, Rachel Blakey, Trish Badeen, Sally Butts, and Hugo Rebelo
1105 - 1120 am
Recovering America’s Wildlife Act of 2016 and What Passage of the Act May Mean to You and the Bats You Love
Lauri Hanauska-Brown
1120 - 1135 am
Molecular Analysis of the Diet of Parastrellus hesperus Krysta Demere and Loren Ammerman
1135 - 1150 am
Tree-roosting Bats in Western United States: What We Know and What’s Next Jesse Alston, Douglas Keinath and Jacob Goheen
1150 - 1205 pm
Wet Refuges for Bats: What Influences Bat Use of Waterbodies at the Landscape Scale? Rachel Blakey, Blair McLaughlin, and Winifred Frick
0130 - 0145 pm
Acoustic Assessment of Year-round Bat Activity and Distribution in Montana and Surrounding Areas Daniel Bachen, Braden Burkholder, Alexis McEwan, and Bryce Maxell
0145 - 0200 pm
Acoustic Bat Activity and Fatality Estimates from Post-construction Monitoring at a Montana Wind Farm Kimberly Linnell, Dan Bachen, and Kristina Smucker
0200 - 0215 pm
Combining Acoustic Monitoring of Bats with Other Species for Monitoring Projects in Northern Alberta Delanie Player
0215 - 0230 pm
The Role of Accidental Bat Translocation in the Fungal Transmission Dynamics of Pseudogymnoascus destructans Tory Rhoads and Karen Blejwas
0230 - 0245 pm
Estimating Bat Species Occupancy and Habitat Use in the Great Basin Bryan Hamilton and Dylan Rhea-Fournier
0245 - 0300 pm
Static Long-term Acoustic Monitoring for Migratory Bat Detection William Rainey
0320 - 0335 pm
Utilizing Large Acoustic Detector Arrays to Account for Spatiotemporal Variation in Bats Zachary Warren, Michael Whitby, Baxter Seguin, Catherine Berrick, and Craig Allen
0335 - 0350 pm
Are Bats Acoustically Challenged by Mine Closures Using Corrugated Culverts?Patricia Brown, James Simmons, Kelsey Hom, Meike Linnenschmidt, Tyler Beck and Zelda Blowers
0350 - 0405 pm
Use of Miniature GPS Tags and Data Loggers to Track Microbats Long-term Kevin Castle, Ted Weller, Paul Cryan, Cris Hein, Michael Schirmacher, and T.A. Dewey
0405 - 0420 pm
Ultraviolet Illumination as a Means of Reducing Bat Activity Paul Cryan, P. Marcos Gorresen, David Dalton, Sandy Wolf, and Frank Bonaccorso
Alphabetical order by first author
Summer Roost Selection of Four Myotis Species in the Pine Ridge Region of Western Nebraska
*Brett Andersen and Keith Geluso
In-hand Measurements of Adult Bats of the Northern Great Plains and Rocky Mountains
*Daniel Bachen, Ellen Whittle, and Bryce Maxell
Implications Associated with the Western Range Expansion of Eastern Red Bat Species in the United States
Brett Andersen, Keith Geluso, *Larisa Bishop-Boros
Bats in the Boondocks: Citizen Science Bat Monitoring in Southeastern Alaska
*Karen Blejwas, Michael Kohan, Tory Rhoads, and Grey Pendleton
Acoustic Monitoring for Bats in Alaska’s National Parks
*Paul Burger
Crucial Hibernacula for Bats in Southern Idaho: Implications for Conservation and Management
*Bryan Bybee, Bill Doering, Jericho Whiting, Joe Lowe, Devin Englestead, Justin Frye, Scott Earl, April Earl, Rob Cavallaro, Todd Stefanic, and Bill Bosworth
Baseline Data on Wintering Bats and Hibernacula in Texas
Melissa B. Meierhofer, *Krysta Demere, Michael Morrison, Brian Pierce, Joseph Szewczak, and Johan Evans
Winter Activity of Bats Outside of Nine Desert Caves in Idaho
*Bill Doering, Jericho Whiting, and Bryan Bybee
Tailoring the Analysis of Bat Acoustic Recordings to Ecological Research Goals: Effects of Changing Software Parameters
*Tabitha Gulley, Michelle Verant, Megan McKenna, Dan Licht, and Rachel Buxton
Identifying and Characterizing Roosts of Lasiurus ega and Lasiurus intermedius
P. Citlally Jimenez, Ben Skipper and *Loren Ammerman
Searching for Natural Defenses (Actinobacteria) Against White-Nose Syndrome Found on Bats at a Gateway to the West
Emily Johnson, Edward Strach, Patrick Lewis, Nicole Caimi, *Ernie Valdez and Diana Northrup
Long-eared Bat Taxonomy: Nuclear Genetic Evidence Eliminates the Species Status of Keen’s Myotis
*Cori Lausen, Doug Burles, Dave Nagorsen, Karen Blejwas, Purnima Govindarajulu, and Laura Friis
Do Dams Affect Bat Diets
*Anya Metcalfe
Swarming Surveys in Colorado: Standardized Sampling and Evaluation as a Potential Vector for the Transmission of White-Nose Syndrome in Bats
*Daniel Neubaum, Jeremy Siemers, and Kirk Navo
Bat Acoustics at Lava Beds National Monument
David Riggs
Acoustic Investigation of a Southern Arizona Bat Roost
*Iris Rodden and Don Carter
Climbers for Bat Conservation: Citizen Science for Understanding Bat Use of Cracks and Crevices
*Robert Schorr, Bernadette Kuhn, and Shawn Davis
Little Brown Bat (Myotis lucifugus) Maternity Colony Monitoring in Northwestern Colorado: Site Fidelity and Early Efforts to Assess Tag Loss
*Robert Schorr and *Jeremy Siemers
Multi-Scale Occupancy Estimation Using NABat Data in Colorado: Effects of Noise, Clutter, and Weather
*Savanna Smith and Jeremy Siemers
Conservation of Historic Building for Corynorhinus townsendii, and Site Faithfulness Following Substantial Roost Disturbance and Renovation
*Greg Tatarian
Does the Size and Tree Composition of Monterey Pine Habitat Affect Bat Activity and Diversity
Kelly Terry, Oscar Scholin, Niklas Kennedy, Kaeden Fletcher-Vogel, Matthew Mendez, Julius Gutierrez, Leo Lauritzen, Elijah Taurke, Dylan MacLaren, Kira Kitayama, Yuri Suzuki, Robertson Rice and *Dave Johnston
How Rare? Limits of Detection of a Genetic Assay for Species Identification from Guano
Faith Walker, Viacheslav Fofanov, Abigail Tobin, Colin Sobek, *Daniel Sanchez, and Carol Chambers
Bat Mortality at Wind-energy Facilities in Southern Idaho
*J. Daniel Whittle, Nicholas Royston, Becky Abel, Jericho Whiting, and Bill Doering
Thursday, 13 April 2017
Sessions on 13 April include ‘Caves and Mines,’ ‘Crevice and Talus Roosting,’ ‘White-nose Syndrome Decontamination and Winter Acoustics’ and ‘White-nose Syndrome Surveillance.’
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Caves and Mines
Crevice and Talus Roosting
WNS Decon and Winter Acoustics
WNS Surveillance
0830 - 0845 am
A Review of Bat Hibernacula in the Western United States: Implications for White-nose Syndrome Surveillance Ted Weller and Thomas Rodhouse
0845 - 0900 am
Monitoring Western Bats in the Face of White-nose Syndrome Debbie Buecher
0900 - 0915 am
The Use of Abandoned Mines by Bats in Colorado, and Implications for Winter Surveillance Kirk Navo, Tom Ingersoll, Lea Bonewell, Nancy LaMantia-Olson, Mark Hayes and Antoinette Piaggio
0915 - 0930 am
Bat Use, Human Visitation, and Environmental Attributes of Cave Hibernacula in Montana Dan Bachen, Bryce Maxell and Lauri Hanauska-Brown
0930 - 0945 am
A West-wide Perspective on Subterranean Roost Conditions
Jason Corbett
0945 - 1015 am
Panel Discussion
1045 - 1100 am
Unsuspected Retreats: Use of Rock Crevices and Talus as Autumn Transition Roosts and Potential Hibernacula Dan Neubaum
1100 - 1115 am
Crevice-roosting Bats: Hibernacula and Winter Flights Cori Lausen, Brandon Klug-Baerwald and Thomas Hill
1115 - 1130 am
Emerging Insights: Transition Season Behavior and Winter Roosts of Little Brown Bats in Southeast Alaska Karen Blejwas, Michael Kohan, Laura Beard and Grey Pendleton
1130 - 1145 am
Winter Bat Activity in a Landscape without Traditional Hibernacula Amy Hammesfahr and Rene Ohms
1145 - 1215 pm
Panel Discussion
0130 - 0145 pm
Developing Guidance for White-nose Syndrome Decontamination at Non-subterranean Bat Roosts in the Pacific Northwest Abby Tobin and Katie Haman
0145 - 0200 pm
Winter Bat Activity in Western Canada Cori Lausen, Brandon Klug-Baerwald and Elizabeth Claire
0200 - 0215 pm
Use of Acoustic Monitoring to Detect Cave Use and Unknown Hibernacula of Bats on Extinct Lava Flows in New Mexico Ernie Valdez, Ara S. Winter, Clara L. Hittel and Emily Johnson
0215 - 0230 pm
Large-scale Winter Acoustic Monitoring in Colorado Tina Jackson, Daniel Neubaum and Kellen M. Keisling
0230 - 0245 pm
Sharing Acoustic Data to Help Conserve Bats Over Their Full Annual Cycle Ted Weller and Karen Blejwas
0245 - 0315 pm
Panel Discussion
0335 - 0350 pm
Region-wide Western Bat Working Group WNS Surveillance Activities Katie Gillies
0350 - 0405 pm
WNS Surveillance in the Pacific Northwest: Winter 2017 Field Work Shawn Thomas
0405 - 0420 pm
Understanding the Impacts of White-nose Syndrome on Washington’s Bat Population Abby Tobin, Katie Haman and Chris Anderson
0420 - 0435 pm
An Examination of Fungal Diversity of Resident and Migratory Bat Species in Colorado Erin Lehmer, Kirk Navo and Steven Fenster
0435 - 0500 pm
WNS/Pd Surveillance Guidance for Western States Anne Ballmann, Kyle George, Elizabeth Bohuski, and Jeff Lorch
0500 - 0530 pm
Panel Discussion
Friday, 14 April 2017
Sessions on 14 April include ‘Current Issues in Acoustic Monitoring’ and ‘Pilot Studies in NABat.’
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Acoustic Monitoring Issues
Pilot Studies in NABat
0810 - 0825 am
Unraveling Zero Crossing and Full Spectrum – What Does it all Mean? Ian Agranat
0825 - 0840 am
Progress and Limitations of Bat Acoustic Species Classification Joe Szewczak
0840 - 0855 am
Recognizing Bat Social Calls
Chris Corben
0855 - 0910 am
The Application of Acoustic Detection Technology for Bat Conservation: The Goals, Challenges, and Needs of Land and Natural Resource Management = Agencies (Summary of Discussion at 2017 Bat Echolocation Symposium) Bronwyn Hogan
0910 - 0940 am
Panel Discussion
1000 - 1015 am
NABat: The Program, Recent Advances, and Unmet Challenges
Brian Reichert and Patty Stevens
1015 - 1025 am
North American Bat Monitoring Pilot Surveys in Arizona Angie McIntire
1025 - 1035 am
Colorado NABat Jeremy Siemers and Tina Jackson
1035 - 1045 am
California NABat Bronwyn Hogan
1045 - 1055 am
From Concept to Implementation: Lessons Learned from Getting NABat Started in Nebraska Michael Whitby, Baxter Seguin, and Craig Allen
1055 - 1105 am
Bat Grid 2.0: Integrating the Original Bat Grid and the North American Bat Monitoring Program in Oregon
Roger Rodriguez, Sarah Reif, Thomas J. Rodhouse, Pat Ormsbee, and Kathryn Irvine
1105 - 1135 am
Panel Discussion
1135 - 1150 am
NABat and Stats: Exploring and Improving Statistical Guidance in “the Plan” Kathi Irvine, Wilson Wright, Thomas Rodhouse, Roger Rodriguez, Sarah Reif, Pat Ormsbee, Katharine Banner, Andrea Litt and Jenny Barnett
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