(MEDIA REPRESENTATIVES – Media representatives are invited to view a presentation on bat migration at 8:30 a.m. on Friday [May 3]. Interviews with the students can be arranged.)

 

SPC students to host presentation on bats on May 3 

LEVELLAND – South Plains College students will present “Using Echolocation Monitoring to Detect the Occurrence of Bats in Levelland” at 8:30 a.m. on Friday (May 3) in the Science Building in Room 188. 

SPC biology students Amanda Newman of Lubbock and Hannah Calcote of Levelland have been conducting a research project this semester that uses state-of-the-art devices to monitor the ultrasonic echolocation calls of bats for species identification and activity monitoring.   

The research project is part of an independent study course (BIOL 2389, Academic Cooperative) where the students studied passive acoustic monitoring of bats at Brashear Lake located near the SPC campus.