Learn How to Survey for Bats at Workshops Taught by Professional Field Biologists!
Keep up with today’s rapidly advancing bat survey technology. Bat Survey Solutions offers comprehensive classes and workshops, taught by seasoned instructors with decades of bat-survey experience at field sites across the U.S. During every class, students receive hands-on training with a full-range of survey equipment for bat capture, handling, tracking, and acoustic recording. During the summer of 2018 choose from three 8-day/7-night Combined Field Survey Methods Workshops at our flagship Arizona, California, and Kentucky venues. These courses provide ample opportunity for participants to learn and practice netting, trapping, handling, identification, and acoustic monitoring skills using a variety of capture techniques, bat detectors, and signal analysis software programs. Students will be able to “test drive” various types survey equipment, including different bat detector and signal analysis equipment and software. Additionally, hand-on guided demonstrations highlight different field deployment techniques and protocols for conducting acoustic inventories. This course is ideal for bat-workers that are new to either acoustic monitoring or bat-capture methods and who want information on the appropriate equipment for their planned surveys. Our classes are also well-suited for experienced technicians who are interested in expanding their knowledge or in picking up additional skills. We also offer a 3-day Bat Acoustic Data Management Class in central PA. This class is designed to cut thru the noise associated with the technology, software, and survey guidelines for using bat detectors, auto-classification programs, and compliance protocols to report on bat echolocation call inventory and monitoring efforts. Registration fees for many of these courses include meals and/or lodging, and field transportation at our study sites. This makes these classes extremely efficient to attend, for even though they are conducted in remote locations, few of our field sites are more than 5-10 miles from our training facility allowing us to spend more time in the field working and learning and less time traveling. Students may also apply for University credit at our KY and PA venues in 2018 thru the University of Tennessee at Martin. For more information or to find out which course is appropriate for you and your training goals see complete training listings on the Bat Survey Solutions, LLC website at: http://batsurveysolutions.com/classes.html We hope to meet your or your students during one of our 2018 trainings. Feel free to contact Bat Survey Solutions if you have any questions or need more information about these or other training activities. And, feel free to share information about this course with your colleagues, or direct them to any of our training staff for additional information. 2018 Lead Instructors: Janet Debelak Tyburec Cell/Text: 520.404.7406 Email: jtybu...@batsurveysolutions.com John Chenger, Bat Conservation and Management Cell/Text: 814.442.4246 Email: jchen...@batmanagement.com
