Regional Groups
California is a big state! Regional groups connect local bat professionals and students from a wide variety of backgrounds. Reach out to get involved!
Sacramento Area Bat Cafe
This is an inclusive group focused on bat acoustics and biology. In this group we provide opportunities for students to connect with professionals, and for biologists from agency, consulting, nonprofit and academia to get together in an informal setting.
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Contacts
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Leila Harris, leilaharris.wildlife@gmail.com
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Kim Fettke, fettke.kimi@gmail.com
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Corky Quirk, cquirk@yolobasin.org
North Coast and Humboldt Bat Group
We are connected by our interest and a desire to learn more about bats. Our collaborative group includes local consultants, professors and students, and state and federal agencies. We hold social gatherings a few times a year to get to know each other and discuss how to focus our efforts. To date, we have coordinated field trips to observe bat emergence at mitigation sites and known roosts, shared information on survey methods and technologies, presented on results from research projects, organized a training workshop, and when the need arose to protect bats, we wrote a public letter and spoke at a public forum. We look forward to you joining us.
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Contacts​
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Lauren Dusek, lauren@stillwatersci.com
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Jen Olson, Jennifer.Olson@wildlife.ca.gov
SoCal Bat Group
We have members from LA, Orange, Riverside, and San Diego Counties and we're excited to hold events in the Southern California area. We advance bat outreach, acoustic literacy of bat workers, and provide knowledge sharing and networking opportunities. If you're interested in planning, guest speaking for, attending or just generally being involved- please contact us!
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Contacts
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Jill Carpenter, carpenterj@gmail.com
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Catherine Fox, cfox.ca@gmail.com
Kern Bat Group
Join our collaborative group of professionals and students working with bats and discuss topics such as bat ecology and biology, survey / research methods, mitigation measures, data analysis approaches, field gear reviews, future bat databases for California, bat conservation, local bat rehab, etc., in an informal setting. We can share each other’s adventures in the bat world with the goal of providing a space to raise the bar on bat ecology knowledge, methods, and data access. This is an opportunity to share ideas and questions to collectively build best practices and improve our approaches to the challenges we face here with our western bats.
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Contacts
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Erika Noel, enoel@mcbioinc.com
South-inland San Luis Obispo Bat Group
Chiropterophiles from all areas are welcome!
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Contact
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Bill Haas, director@centralcoastbatsurvey.org
Bay Area Bat Group
We connect researchers, students, consultants, and anyone else interested in bat conservation and ecology by providing an environment where ideas and strategies about working with bats can be shared. We facilitate connections for volunteer opportunities for research and public outreach.
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Contact
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Bethany Schulze, bschulze@csumb.edu
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