[OHIOBWG] FW: Register for BSS's world class bat workshop opportunity

[Titchenell, Marne]

see below for details

[The Ohio State University]
Marne A. Titchenell

Wildlife Program Specialist

Ohio State University Extension
School of Environment and Natural Resources

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>
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Bat Survey Solutions, LLC
Combined Field Survey Techniques Workshop
Tulelake, California - Lava Beds National Monument and Modoc National Forest
Cost:  $2,825
8 days/7 nights + 20 meals in Tulelake, CA
 Add EchoClass/BCID Data Module (optional) 
Registration: $349.00 per participant
Includes day 8 lunch & afternoon practicum and optional evening geek session


Add University Credit (optional) 
This workshop can be taken for university credit thru the University of Tennessee at Martin. Students registered for the Combined Field Survey Techniques Workshop will receive automatic permission of the professor and can enroll for 1 credit hour thru the UTM Biological Sciences Department. Approximate costs: $400 (TN residents); $625 (non-residents). Download the PDF document below with more information and links to the faculty contact and UTM registrar.
UTM Credit Info PDF<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbatsurveysolutions.com%2Fclasses%2FResources%2FBIOL464batsssyllabusCA2018.pdf&data=02%7C01%7Ctccarter%40bsu.edu%7C0ea9b6d2021f4f7cae8c08d5d08962fa%7C6fff909f07dc40da9e30fd7549c0f494%7C0%7C0%7C636644210853060504&sdata=z%2BlGF0GwsMqeQ6Z5xxJkvcCbHr73NqREp9z%2BPzSbat4%3D&reserved=0>
Location and Directions: Winema lodge is located about 8-miles from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service¹s Tulelake National Wildlife Refuge on Hill Road outside Tulelake in extreme north-central California<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mapquest.com%2Fus%2Fcalifornia%2Fhotels-motels-tulelake%2Fwinema-lodge-12266627&data=02%7C01%7Ctccarter%40bsu.edu%7C0ea9b6d2021f4f7cae8c08d5d08962fa%7C6fff909f07dc40da9e30fd7549c0f494%7C0%7C0%7C636644210853060504&sdata=aIElJwDGGGfUPKs3A%2BJgV0I9nCmUWjkT8upxkw3%2BCRQ%3D&reserved=0>. More information about travel to Winema Lodge, is available on the lodge website.<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.winemalodge.com%2F%23!contact%2Fvstc2%3Dmap&data=02%7C01%7Ctccarter%40bsu.edu%7C0ea9b6d2021f4f7cae8c08d5d08962fa%7C6fff909f07dc40da9e30fd7549c0f494%7C0%7C0%7C636644210853060504&sdata=rm9QzbZpTB7KPT1PH5HDffwvk0K3flUnY68D5F8PzQo%3D&reserved=0> The cost of lodging for nights 1 thru 7 is included for all students.
Dates: July 29-August 5, 2018. NOTE: Tulelake is on Pacific Daylight Time (PDT), as is all of CA, NV and most of OR.

Curriculum Highlights
Lectures and demonstrations cover a full range of bat natural history, identification, capture, and handling skills. Survey techniques covered during the course include, physical capture methods, acoustic monitoring, marking and banding, radio tracking, and data recording, analysis and reporting. Bat echolocation and acoustic monitoring subjects, with a focus on the use of Kaleidoscope Pro and SonoBat software for designing inventory and monitoring programs for western bat species. A summary of topics includes:
•       Introduction to regional bat natural history, distribution, and morphological identification
•       Physical capture techniques using harp traps, mist nets, and other situation-specific methods
•       Viewing and recording bats using video, night-vision/infra-red cameras, and thermal imaging
•       Assessing habitat for bats and micro-siting for effective surveys
•       Tips on bat detector use and deployment for acoustic inventories
•       Introduction to bat bioacoustics, echolocation, and bat detectors
•       Hands-on demonstration with a wide range of bat detector models
•       Bat detector use in the field for active, passive, and mobile transect monitoring
•       Monitoring program designs and choosing the right bat detector for the job
•       Intro to Kaleidoscope PRO and SonoBat4 for recording and signal analysis
•       Qualitative echolocation call characteristics for bat species identification and disambiguation
•       Auto-classification using KaPRO & SonoBat4, data handling, file storage, and interpretation
•       Marking and banding for long-term studies
•       New and emerging technologies to advance the science of bat research

Evening fieldwork practicums: Instructors will provide guided, hands-on demonstrations during evening and nighttime field practicums. Participants will work in small groups for added opportunity for individual instruction. Participants can choose to focus on any aspect(s) of the course during the field practicums and tailor their participation to their specific interests and/or needs.
•       Deploying single-, double-, and triple-high mist nets
•       Assembling and siting harp traps
•       Combining harp traps and mist nets in geometric combinations to increase capture success
•       Key morphological characteristics to help identify bats “on the wing”
•       Adding acoustic inventories efforts to assess survey protocols and refine occupancy estimates
•       Conducting active, passive, and mobile bat-detector deployments
•       Deployment tips to improve recording quality and confident classifications
•       Passive setups using full-spectrum bat detectors from all major manufacturers
•       Active monitoring using bat detectors, tips for following bats, and hands-on opportunities to collect voucher recordings using SonoBatLIVE
•       Implementing mobile acoustic transects
•       Addressing power, security, and weatherproofing for long-term, passive deployments
•       Comparing effects of effort, habitat diversity, capture methods, and survey conditions on inventory results

General Equipment: Participants need to bring appropriate field gear, including hiking boots, a headlamp with batteries, a personal pack, sunscreen, bat handling glove, a supply of latex gloves for compliance with WNS protocols, insect repellant, and a water bottle. Participants will need proof rabies pre-exposure vaccination to handle bat during this course and should plan to obtain the three-shot series at least one month prior to attendance if needed. Proof of sufficient rabies antibody tire (dated no more than 2 years prior to the start of the course) will also be accepted.
Software Requirements: Functional trials of SonoBat4 will be available for students to install on a personal and/or company laptop prior to the course. Directions will also be provided on how to obtain a demo version of Kaleidoscope PRO and Myotisoft Transect. Microsoft Excel is required to view and compile the outputs from all the classifier programs.
Acoustic Equipment: Students should bring any personal or company bat detectors, laptops and connecting cables. Please bring any appropriate digital media storage devices (2GB or larger is suggested) to collect recordings and/or share data. One field trip will include a mobile (driving or walking) transect; students may use their own equipment during this exercise, and should be sure to consider power and portability issues. Participants without bat detectors, and even participants with their own equipment, may borrow workshop equipment to test side-by-side during the course.
How to Register: Please order online at the Bat Survey Solutions website: http://batsurveysolutions.com/classes/cfst-california.html<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbatsurveysolutions.com%2Fclasses%2Fcfst-california.html&data=02%7C01%7Ctccarter%40bsu.edu%7C0ea9b6d2021f4f7cae8c08d5d08962fa%7C6fff909f07dc40da9e30fd7549c0f494%7C0%7C0%7C636644210853060504&sdata=EdU7I0MxU0KinDCKX1mD80iJJXTsRyNYlLBuylyxDsI%3D&reserved=0>
To register multiple people, please checkout each person individually so that we can obtain the proper contact information for each participant. Please also mention any special topics you are definitely interested in the text box provided on the checkout screen.
Additional details:
In the Field - Field locations can be surprisingly cool at night, please bring a jacket and dress appropriately for evening activities. Bring clothing and footwear that can get wet (one capture site is in a "wet" meadow, though regular hiking boots typically suffice some prefer muck boots). We will be visiting natural cave entrances and follow Lava Beds WNS decontamination protocol. Students may -not- bring clothing or gear from Endemic or Intermediate WNS Management Areas (see Figure 1 in the current USFWS Decontamination Protocol)<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitenosesyndrome.org%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fresource%2Fnational_wns_decon_protocol_04.12.2016.pdf&data=02%7C01%7Ctccarter%40bsu.edu%7C0ea9b6d2021f4f7cae8c08d5d08962fa%7C6fff909f07dc40da9e30fd7549c0f494%7C0%7C0%7C636644210853060504&sdata=YRBAUZ%2FNg0gONBlcl2eaFJ%2BrGQbUNUedjYpXp7Addi8%3D&reserved=0>. If clothing or gear from such areas must be used, then conducting decontamination/disinfection according to the current USFWS protocol before the trip to California is advisable. To ensure procedures are properly implemented, an additional decontamination/disinfection effort, supervised by BatSS staff, may be conducted before commencing field work. A comprehensive list suggesting a full range of items to bring to the course will be sent to all registered participants prior to the class. Please arrive on Day 1 with a full tank of gas especially if you expect that you will want to drive your own vehicle and equipment to field sites.
In the classroom - Please note that while frequency-division technology (a.k.a. zero-cross recordings in AnaBat format) will be demonstrated during this workshop, a comprehensive look at AnaLook and related workflow is beyond the scope of this workshop and will not be presented in detail. If you plan to use a government/institution/corporate owned computer BE SURE you have access privileges to install software during this class. Please bring a laptop loaded with the SonoBat demo, Kaleidoscope, and Microsoft Excel. It is very important for all students to pre-install all the suggested software and become familiar with basic features and operations to maximize time spent learning the various work-flows and utilities. Allow 1-3 hours to install software especially if you are new to acoustic monitoring. We will be analyzing new data as well as sample data from other previous workshops or projects. Participants are also encouraged to bring their own full spectrum data to analyze as well! We will have a number of full-spectrum bat detectors available including Pettersson D500x and Wildlife Acoustics SM4 detectors for participants to borrow. We will also have several Wildlife Acoustics SM3, SM2BAT+, Echometer Touch, and EM3 units available. There will be smaller numbers of Pettersson D1000x, D240x, M500/SonoBatLIVE, Binary Acoustic Technology miniMic/Spect'r, AR125FG, AR125 and iFR-IV models, and an Elekon Batlogger to demo. A generous, fully functional trial version of KaPRO & SonoBat 4 will be available to install on student laptops prior to the workshop. It is important to take advantage of this opportunity PRIOR to arrival to participate fully in the guided software demonstrations and post-processing of field recordings. Software download and install instructions (for Mac OSX or Microsoft Windows) will be provided to all registered participants about two-weeks prior to the start of the course. Any participants who have already invested in a detector brand or model should bring it to the class. Being familiar with the basic operation of the detector and how to connect it to a laptop and/or off-load recordings to a laptop prior to the workshop is helpful. AnaBat users interested in the full spectrum detectors and SonoBat workflow are welcome. However, remember that SonoBat software is not compatible with AnaBat recordings. AnaBat software and workflow necessitates its own dedicated workshop to cover comprehensively and therefore will not be formally covered at this workshop due to time constraints.
At the Lodge - All meals from Dinner on Day 1 to dinner on Day 7 are included with the registration fee. Meals include (1) an early-bird, grab-and-go cold breakfast with coffee/tea, (2) a sit-down hot brunch, and a family-style late-lunch/early-dinner on each full class day. Please indicate with your registration if you require vegetarian meals or if you have any life-threatening food allergies. Other special diets (e.g., gluten free, low fat, Paleo, etc.) are not possible. Filtered water is provided free of charge at the Lodge. Staff will provide day-long coffee and tea resources (e.g., coffee, filters, electric coffee makers, electric kettles, sugar and creamer). Participants are welcome to bring their own favorite or essential coffee/tea blends. There is a small convenience store in Tulelake where food, beverages, and other essentials can be purchased during limited hours. Other grocery stores, chain restaurants, and gas stations are 10-30 miles away in Merrill and Klamath Falls OR respectively. Travelers should plan their food and fuel needs accordingly. All rooms have personal-sized refrigerator/freezers for your convenience.

Questions? - Contact:
John Chenger
Bat Conservation and Management, Inc.
1263 Claremont Road
Carlisle, Pennsylvania 17015
(717) 241-2228 (office and fax)
(814) 442-4246 (mobile)
www.batmanagement.com<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.batmanagement.com&data=02%7C01%7Ctccarter%40bsu.edu%7C0ea9b6d2021f4f7cae8c08d5d08962fa%7C6fff909f07dc40da9e30fd7549c0f494%7C0%7C0%7C636644210853060504&sdata=FPlam9ukG5H19ivVxOUyRaP2KKCMi%2FWTJKvIGiu9Kdc%3D&reserved=0>
jchenger at batmanagement.com<mailto:jchenger at batmanagement.com>


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