2006 NASBR Teacher Workshop
BATS OF NORTH CAROLINA
by Pat Morton,
The 12th annual NASBR teacher’s workshop was held on October 21st in Wilmington, NC. Twenty-eight participants pre-registered and several folks from the regular meeting stopped by to sit it. This workshop could not happen without the generosity of workshop faculty and sponsors. All our speakers this year took time out of the regular sessions to provide some really great programs on all manner of bat biology and conservation topics. This year’s faculty, in order of presentation, included: Meg Goodman, Texas Parks and Wildlife; Kari Gaukler, Bat Conservation International; Lisa Gatens, North Carolina Museum of Natural History; Steve Burnett, Clayton State University; Allyson Walsh, Lubee Bat Conservancy; and Rob Mies, Organization for Bat Conservation. Workshop sponsorships fund the educational materials we provide to each participant. Most of our sponsors have been helping out for the past 12 years and they have been instrumental in establishing the teacher’s workshop as a regular part of NASBR’s annual meeting. The workshop sponsors are: Lubee Bat Conservancy, Bat Conservation International, Organization for Bat Conservation, California Native Bat Conservancy, Speleobooks, Bat Research News, NASBR, and Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. Special thanks this year go to the local coordinator Mike Campbell from the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, to our annual “master volunteer,” Barbara Ogaard and to Meg Goodman who took my place this year in running the workshop. The annual chair of the NASBR meeting, Mary Kay Clark, helped in ways too numerous to mention. Thanks to all who helped make this year’s workshop a big success.