Y’all know the quintessential activity for graduate students in the Kingston Bat Conservation Ecology lab – you guessed it: fieldwork!

Isham led another field season in the summer of 2023, and it gets better each passing year! The weather favored them, and they had successful nights of bat trappings. The team covered two sites throughout the summer, capturing over 500 bats and surveying approximately 200 vegetation plots. Whew, that’s a lot of plots!

Things really picked up when Dr. Kingston jumped on board halfway through the summer to gather materials for the Broader Impacts component of the project. She spent countless hours each day capturing some fine videos of the forests, the bats, and all the other critters calling the forest their home.

At the moment, we’re gearing up to get some of our hard work published! One of our projects, which is part of Isham’s dissertation is to look into processes behind the disassembly of bat assemblages when faced with fragmentation. We’re working hard to get this one published, so y’all best stay tuned for some more bat science straight out of the Kingston lab!