Post by L Roebuck on May 17, 2006 8:05:41 GMT -5
BCI FIELD STUDY WORKSHOPS
There is still space available in BCI's Bat Conservation and Management Workshops in Pennsylvania and Kentucky. We have only two spots open in our Acoustic Monitoring Workshop in Arizona. For information and registration forms, please visit www.batcon.org/home/index.asp?idPage=30 or contact Kari Gaukler, BCI, PO Box 162603, Austin, TX 78716; 512-327-9721; kgaukler@batcon.org
Our Pennsylvania workshop highlights eastern bats and their habitats. We'll net, trap, and release bats over trout streams and beaver ponds, observe endangered Indiana bats swarming at a mine entrance, watch 20,000 little brown bats in a spectacular dawn return to their roost at a restored church, and examine them up close. Workshop co-instructor, Cal Butchkoski of the Pennsylvania Game Commission, is a leading expert on surveying and radio-tracking Indiana bats, as well as one of America's most successful builders of bat houses and other artificial roosts. He along with John Chenger of Bat Conservation Management, Inc., Dave Young of PA DCNR, Kari Gaukler and Mylea Bayless of Bat Conservation International and a host of other local experts will share a wealth of knowledge covering all aspects of bat conservation, management, education, public health and nuisance issues. Home cooking is but one of many unexpected treats at historic Greene Hills Manor, our workshop headquarters.
One session: August 7-12, 2006. Limited to 20 people. Departure city: Harrisburg, PA. Cost: $1295
A Kentucky workshop focuses on cave-dwelling bats, taking us to the heart of America's karst country at the Cave Research Foundation's Hamilton Valley facility. In the company of experts including Jim Kennedy of BCI, John Chenger of Bat Conservation and Management, Inc., Rick Toomey and Rick Olson of Mammoth Cave National Park, and Traci Hemberger of Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, we'll visit hibernation and nursery caves of endangered gray and Indiana myotis, and learn how to detect bats' prior use of caves and to identify habitat conditions that meet their needs. Fieldwork includes netting and harp-trapping at cave entrances and at nearby feeding and drinking habitats, with hands-on identification of 10 Eastern species. We will visit bat gates with their designers and also discuss habitat assessment, field research techniques, bat houses, and public health issues.
One session: August 16-21, 2006. Limited to 20 people. Departure city: Nashville, TN. Cost: $1295
BCI is also offering an Acoustic Monitoring Workshop session in conjunction with our Bat Conservation and Management sessions in Portal, Arizona. The workshop will cover hardware and software including Anabat, Pettersson and SonoBat, teach call identifications and how to develop a monitoring program. Acoustic experts Sybill Amelon, Chris Corben, Joe Szewczak, and Ted Weller will be combining current research discussions with hands-on demonstrations and field work. Each night we will be capturing bats and developing call libraries so participants can return to their home study areas and begin their own projects armed with knowledge and experience. BCI will have equipment on hand but participants are encouraged to bring there own systems as well.
One session: June 22-27, 2006. Limited to 15 people. Departure city: Tucson, AZ. Cost: $1295
Kari Gaukler
Education and Workshops Coordinator
Bat Conservation International
PO Box 162603
Austin, TX 78716
512-327-9721 x47
512-327-9724 (fax)
kgaukler@batcon.org
There is still space available in BCI's Bat Conservation and Management Workshops in Pennsylvania and Kentucky. We have only two spots open in our Acoustic Monitoring Workshop in Arizona. For information and registration forms, please visit www.batcon.org/home/index.asp?idPage=30 or contact Kari Gaukler, BCI, PO Box 162603, Austin, TX 78716; 512-327-9721; kgaukler@batcon.org
Our Pennsylvania workshop highlights eastern bats and their habitats. We'll net, trap, and release bats over trout streams and beaver ponds, observe endangered Indiana bats swarming at a mine entrance, watch 20,000 little brown bats in a spectacular dawn return to their roost at a restored church, and examine them up close. Workshop co-instructor, Cal Butchkoski of the Pennsylvania Game Commission, is a leading expert on surveying and radio-tracking Indiana bats, as well as one of America's most successful builders of bat houses and other artificial roosts. He along with John Chenger of Bat Conservation Management, Inc., Dave Young of PA DCNR, Kari Gaukler and Mylea Bayless of Bat Conservation International and a host of other local experts will share a wealth of knowledge covering all aspects of bat conservation, management, education, public health and nuisance issues. Home cooking is but one of many unexpected treats at historic Greene Hills Manor, our workshop headquarters.
One session: August 7-12, 2006. Limited to 20 people. Departure city: Harrisburg, PA. Cost: $1295
A Kentucky workshop focuses on cave-dwelling bats, taking us to the heart of America's karst country at the Cave Research Foundation's Hamilton Valley facility. In the company of experts including Jim Kennedy of BCI, John Chenger of Bat Conservation and Management, Inc., Rick Toomey and Rick Olson of Mammoth Cave National Park, and Traci Hemberger of Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, we'll visit hibernation and nursery caves of endangered gray and Indiana myotis, and learn how to detect bats' prior use of caves and to identify habitat conditions that meet their needs. Fieldwork includes netting and harp-trapping at cave entrances and at nearby feeding and drinking habitats, with hands-on identification of 10 Eastern species. We will visit bat gates with their designers and also discuss habitat assessment, field research techniques, bat houses, and public health issues.
One session: August 16-21, 2006. Limited to 20 people. Departure city: Nashville, TN. Cost: $1295
BCI is also offering an Acoustic Monitoring Workshop session in conjunction with our Bat Conservation and Management sessions in Portal, Arizona. The workshop will cover hardware and software including Anabat, Pettersson and SonoBat, teach call identifications and how to develop a monitoring program. Acoustic experts Sybill Amelon, Chris Corben, Joe Szewczak, and Ted Weller will be combining current research discussions with hands-on demonstrations and field work. Each night we will be capturing bats and developing call libraries so participants can return to their home study areas and begin their own projects armed with knowledge and experience. BCI will have equipment on hand but participants are encouraged to bring there own systems as well.
One session: June 22-27, 2006. Limited to 15 people. Departure city: Tucson, AZ. Cost: $1295
Kari Gaukler
Education and Workshops Coordinator
Bat Conservation International
PO Box 162603
Austin, TX 78716
512-327-9721 x47
512-327-9724 (fax)
kgaukler@batcon.org