PROF. KATHARINE YORK
I teach General Biology I and II, Zoology, and Field Ornithology at Southern New Hampshire University. My research focuses on the distribution and composition of bat populations in New Hampshire. I conduct acoustic surveys to monitor bat species in the state, and I also focus on counting bats at established maternity colonies. I am currently working on a project to construct artificial roosts for Myotis leibii, Eastern Small-footed bats..
Cusuco National Park
Honduras
Research Expedition
06.19.18
North American Joint Bat Working Group Meeting
Roanoke, VA
03.27.18
CURRENT EVENTS
I'm currently using both Pettersson and Anabat devices to monitor bat populations in the state on mobile acoustic routes. I record bat calls and use them to identify species, which provides valuable information about feeding strategies, distribution of bat species, and health of bat populations. This is particularly important because of the devastating impact White Nose Syndrome has had on bat species in New England.
Summer 2018: Students can join me for acoustic surveys, and can also participate in counting bats as they emerge nightly from an established maternity colony (which is an old barn!). This information is helpful in determining how many bats have pups in a year, and we are especially interested in the number of Myotis lucifugus, Little Brown Bats, since they have been hit hard by White Nose Syndrome. We are counting in order to have some baseline numbers, as we hope their numbers will slowly recover.
