[OHIOBWG] FW: Winter Acoustic Bat Workshop Available!

Thu Dec 7 15:56:52 EST 2017

FYI, see below!

[The Ohio State University]
Marne A. Titchenell

Wildlife Program Specialist

Ohio State University Extension
School of Environment and Natural Resources
College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences

210 Kottman Hall, 2021 Coffey Rd, Columbus, OH 43210

614-292-0402  Office
titchenell.4 at osu.edu<mailto:titchenell.4 at osu.edu>

woodlandstewards.osu.edu<http://woodlandstewards.osu.edu/>

From: mwbwg at googlegroups.com [mailto:mwbwg at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Carter, Tim
Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2017 11:02 PM
To: southeastern-bat-diversity-network at googlegroups.com; mwbwg at googlegroups.com
Subject: [MWBWG] Winter Acoustic Bat Workshop Available!

Bat Fieldwork in Winter? Yes!
Don’t lose your acoustic monitoring skills by keeping your detectors packed away all winter; be ready for the 2018 bat survey season! Or is staff still trying to make sense of cryptic 2017 acoustic data? Do you need familiarized with analysis software and detector log files to make sense of other’s reports?  One of the most important investments you can make to ensure success is to send your biologists to a Bat Survey Solutions, LLC training course. Past participants agree that a week in the field with us is time well spent, and the connections made during class will last long past the final day. Consider joining us for the:

Acoustic Survey Methods For Bats Workshop
Punta Gorda, Florida • 21-26 January 2018
Our sunny, warm, and airport-friendly southwest Florida venue permits us to record at least 8 bat species over 5 nights of hands-on field opportunities.  Students will receive unparalleled opportunity to learn acoustic survey techniques from instructors and assistants with decades of real-world experience.
Don’t miss out on a must-have training opportunity. To sign-up and for more information, visit:
http://www.batsurveysolutions.com/classes/asm-florida.html<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.batsurveysolutions.com%2Fclasses%2Fasm-florida.html&data=02%7C01%7Ctccarter%40bsu.edu%7C56fbbcc61ff44b0f700208d5398bdb8f%7C6fff909f07dc40da9e30fd7549c0f494%7C0%7C0%7C636478195202756379&sdata=h18e2rTeGKqjiZZNyt4YxbfkzGSfTAoxn5nPBoDFp0A%3D&reserved=0>

Or contact:
Janet Debelak Tyburec
Bat Survey Solutions, LLC
Cell/Text: 520.404.7406
jtyburec at batsurveysolutions.com<mailto:jtyburec at batsurveysolutions.com>

John Chenger
Cell/Text: 814.442.4246
jchenger at batsurveysolutions.com<mailto:jchenger at batsurveysolutions.com>

Overview of this venue:
This class includes a 6 day schedule of combined classroom lectures and hands-on practice. The Acoustic Survey Methods workshops teach students all the topics covered in the shorter “Acoustic Data Management” workshop but adds valuable in-field hands-on opportunities. Our field trips allow us to illustrate how to locate, deploy, collect, and analyze real data from active, passive, and mobile acoustic transect surveys. Bring your own detector or test drive any of our loaners side-by-side and see for yourself the differences minor settings, placements, or brands/models can make. This workshop is ideal for biologists, land managers, consultants, students, and anyone interested in bat acoustics.

We will be highlighting two acoustic analysis software programs that also contain file viewers for manually vetting bat calls: KaleidoscopePRO, and SonoBat. We also offer an add-on module focusing on the outputs generated by BCID and EchoClass. If you are new to these programs, the learning curve will be steep, but possible if you are savvy navigating your hard drive, identifying new files, outputs, and are familiar looking at Excel spreadsheets. In Excel, we will utilize certain formatting, sorting, filtering processes to aid sorting to only the best files of a species of interest to then manually verify. We will highlight the design of formulae to perform calculations, and explore the function of pivot tables to interpret large data-sets creating charts and graphs from your outputs. All of this speeds the efficiency and effectiveness of reporting on acoustic survey outcomes; bring your own data to experiment on! Lunches and dinners included most days; lodging is on your own.

Acoustic survey methods using bat detectors are heavily featured during this class. Each day we will cover lessons and demonstrations on:

  *   active monitoring - at dusk during emergence counts near Florida bonneted bat roosts, and while using spotlights
  *   passive stationary deployments - single-night or long-term data collection
  *   mobile acoustic-survey efforts - designing to interpreting transect routes, including an opportunity for an optional evening kayak transect along a scenic Florida river

Students may bring their own equipment and learn to use it better, or borrow from our array of the most up-to-date loaner equipment and test drive it in the field before they invest in their own gear. We teach programming and deployment scenarios for:

  *   Binary Acoustic Technologies AR-125/150, Spect’r, AcroBAT, and miniMIC
  *   Pettersson D500x, M500, 240x, 1000x
  *   SonoBatLIVE and BatRecorder smartphone app
  *   Titley AnaBat Swift, Walkabout, and Express
  *   Wildlife Acoustics SongMeter 2, 2+, 3, 4-FS, 4-ZC, EchoMeter and EchoMeter Touch.

Instructors for this venue include:
Janet Tyburec (Bat Survey Solutions, LLC), who has personally taught more than 2,700 wildlife biologists, land managers, and students while presenting over 150 training workshops since 1992.
John Chenger (Bat Conservation and Management), whose company since 2000 conducts bat research using trapping, tracking, acoustic, and video monitoring techniques but also builds and supplies tools to facilitate bat surveys.

Florida not working for you? Three of our flagship venues that include everything covered in the Florida class but add mist net and harp trap techniques are also open for registration:
Arizona in May:  http://www.batsurveysolutions.com/classes/cfst-arizona.html<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.batsurveysolutions.com%2Fclasses%2Fcfst-arizona.html&data=02%7C01%7Ctccarter%40bsu.edu%7C56fbbcc61ff44b0f700208d5398bdb8f%7C6fff909f07dc40da9e30fd7549c0f494%7C0%7C0%7C636478195202756379&sdata=Rx1lm3dwnFxTb%2BJ%2FfrI2wblGwlQzWG3u2REz9Cdr6lE%3D&reserved=0>
California in July: http://www.batsurveysolutions.com/classes/cfst-california.html<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.batsurveysolutions.com%2Fclasses%2Fcfst-california.html&data=02%7C01%7Ctccarter%40bsu.edu%7C56fbbcc61ff44b0f700208d5398bdb8f%7C6fff909f07dc40da9e30fd7549c0f494%7C0%7C0%7C636478195202756379&sdata=%2FFPFagb43RG6BfZUUNPdqVslBgnZ5PPAUY9ucDYqbFg%3D&reserved=0>
Kentucky in August: http://www.batsurveysolutions.com/classes/cfst-kentucky.html<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.batsurveysolutions.com%2Fclasses%2Fcfst-kentucky.html&data=02%7C01%7Ctccarter%40bsu.edu%7C56fbbcc61ff44b0f700208d5398bdb8f%7C6fff909f07dc40da9e30fd7549c0f494%7C0%7C0%7C636478195202756379&sdata=sphSLy09skLpmc9ndHGfJg2U4Q116gTYRIXMbkrpue8%3D&reserved=0>

Consider a sample of what just a few past-participants have said about our training courses:
 For anyone who has bought detectors, recorded a bunch of files and needs a non-biased, realistic plan to move forward - this class is the most important thing you can do to give transparent and honest reports.
This course was amazing for understanding bat identification and their habitats and survey techniques for different species. The course was very helpful in assisting me in the review of bat study plans and reports.
This is a great workshop and I highly recommend it to anyone thinking about working with bats.
I think this workshop is truly unique in its ability to provide experience and exposure to the most important methods of surveying bats.
Lots of opportunity for hands-on field experience. Amazing instructors made the workshops interesting for novices and experts in the field.
This is a highly recommended course. I would encourage anyone interested in acoustic bat detection and data interpretation to attend this course.
I loved all the resources provided. The reference calls are very helpful to add context for species identification.

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