2019 Student Award Recipients
Oral Presentations
Alexander Grimaudo
Host and Environment Interact to Drive Colony Persistence of Myotis lucifugus Impacted by White-nose Syndrome
Bat Research News Award – Presented by Burton Lim
Iroro Tanshi
Competitors Versus Filters: Drivers of Non-random Structure in Forest Interior Insectivorous Bat Assemblages along Elevational Gradients
Karl F. Koopman Award – Presented by Heather York
Emma Kunkel
Partial Migration in Mexican Free-tailed Bats: Ecology and Bioenergetics of Winter Residents
Bat Conservation International Award – Presented by Gerald Carter
Luis Víquez-R
Gotta Catch‘Em All! Using PNA-DNA Clamps to Increase Microbiome Read Numbers in a Diet Specialist
Luis F. Bacardi Bat Conservation Award – Presented by Liam McGuire
Timothy Divoll
Flexibility of Prey Size Selection in Sympatric Forest Bats (Myotis) Facilitates Dietary Overlap
Titley Scientific Award – Presented by Nate Fuller
Poster Presentations
Derek Krueger
Observing Social Behaviors of Eptesicus fuscus within the Roost
Batgoods Award – Presented by Maria Sagot
Juan Moreira-Hernández
Using Prepared Nectarivorous Bat Specimens for Pollination Studies: An Example with Bat-pollinated Burmeistera (Campanulaceae) from Ecuador
Basically Bats-Wildlife Conservation Society Award – Presented by Dana Green
Brooke Daly
Sex Ratios of Big Brown Bats in Michigan over a 10-year Period
White-nose Syndrome Research award – Presented by Joy O’Keefe
Alexander Morris
Kinematic Comparison of the Recovery Maneuvers between Two Bat Species
Avinet Award - Presented by Alexis Brown (accepted by Sharon Swartz)