Student Awards Competition GuidelinesGraduate and undergraduate students are invited to present the results of their research in the platform or poster competitions NASBR Annual Meeting. Students must be the principle investigator of the research and listed as the first author. Papers and posters will be judged on their scientific merits and clarity of presentation. To enter the student awards competitions, students must register by checking the appropriate box on the abstract submission form before the abstract deadline. Please consider completing your entry and registration well before the deadline to avoid possible complications – no late entry to the student awards competition will be accepted. The competition is adjudicated by a panel of anonymous judges and all decisions of the judges are final. Student competition presentations will be on Thursday, the first day of the conference. Students entering the competition are encouraged to review the evaluation forms as they prepare their presentations. QUALIFICATIONS: A student may enter a platform paper in the student awards competition one (1) time during a given candidacy for a degree program (once as a bachelor's degree candidate, once as a Master's degree candidate, and once as Ph.D. candidate). Similarly, a student may enter a poster for student awards competition one (1) time during a given degree candidacy. Adherence to the one time per degree policy is by honor system. Students entering competition must acknowledge a statement on the registration form indicating that they affirm that they meet these qualifications. Each award includes a certificate and a check for $500
Avinet Award Basically Bats Wildlife Conservation Society Award Bat Conservation International Award Bat Research News Award Luis F. Bacardi Bat Conservation Award NASBR Karl F. Koopman Award Batgoods Award Titley Scientific Award White-nose Syndrome Research Award NASBR thanks the generous contributions of the sponsors above for encouraging undergraduate and graduate research on bats. Congratulations to the NASBR 2023 Student Award Winners:Titley Scientific Award Julia Vrtilek (Social Bonding Causes Convergence of Contact Calls in Vampire Bats) Bat Conservation International Award Nina Garrett (Airborne eDNA Documents a Diverse and Ecologically Complex Tropical Bat and Other Mammal Community) Karl F. Koopman Award Pedro Mônico (Phylogenetic, Morphological, and Niche Differentiation Analyses Unveil New Species Limits for the Caribbean Big Brown Bat) Journal of North American Bat Research Award Dana Green (Inter- and Intra- specific Differences in Fur Cortisol Levels of Three North American Migratory Bats) Luis F. Bacardi Bat Conservation Award Lily Hou (Bats in Remnant Maternity Colonies Can Balance the Energetic Costs of White-nose Syndrome Healing and Recovery) Avinet Award Aleana Savage (Tolerance to Urban Light and Sound Driving Novel Habitat Colonization) Wildlife Acoustics Award Rene Lile (Bat Assemblage Change Following White-Nose Syndrome Establishment in the Black Hills of South Dakota) Batgoods.com Award Carly Trujillo (Impact of Biopsy Size and Bat Species on DNA Yields) Basically Bats-Wildlife Conservation Society Award Travis Bayer (Energy Landscapes and the Relationship Between Heart Rate and Accelerometry Metrics of Phyllostomus hastatus in Panama) |