2012 BCI Student Research Scholarship Program
Each year, BCI awards scholarships to help students at universities around the world conduct conservation-relevant research. The goal of this program is to support exceptionally talented students in research initiatives that will contribute the new knowledge that is essential to conserving bats and the ecosystems they serve worldwide.
The maximum one-year award per student is $5,000. We hope that these funds will open opportunities for matching grants from other conservation organizations, government agencies and private foundations, and that BCI's support will grow in years to come.
Applications are no longer being accepted for 2012 BCI Scholarships.
 General Scholarship Information
We congratulate the winners of the 2011 BCI Student Research Scholarships and gratefully recognize the generous donors whose support made them possible:
U.S. Forest Service International Programs
Chun-Chia Huang (Texas Tech University, United States) Ecological services by insectivorous bats in paleotropical rainforest and agroforest Systems, Indonesia
Rodrigo Marciente (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Brazil) Effects of complexity and heterogeneity of the understory vegetation on bat assemblage and guild structure, Brazil
Corneile Minnaar (University of Pretoria, South Africa) Why do insectivorous bats eat what they eat? A mechanistic model of prey selection? South Africa
Nor Zalipah Mohamed (University of Bristol, United Kingdom) The role of fruit bats (Pteropodidae) in the pollination ecology of mangroves, Malaysia
Ryszard Oleksy (University of Bristol, United Kingdom) The contribution of fruit bats to forest regeneration: Do bat-processed seeds do better? Madagascar
Rubén Salinas-Galicia (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) Ipomoea arborescens as winter resource for the endangered migratory bat Leptonycteris nivalis in Morelos, Mexico
Anthony Turner (University of East Anglia, United Kingdom) Impact of logging on paleotropical bat assemblages: What value do secondary forests hold for biodiversity conservation? Malaysia
Susan Whitehead (University of Colorado, United States) Chemical ecology of seed dispersal by short-tailed fruit bats, Costa Rica
Veronica Zamora-Gutierrez (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom) Predicting the influence of climate change on bat communities and the effectiveness of protected areas, Mexico
Anonymous Donor
Jennifer Krauel (University of Tennessee, United States) Fall migration of Tadarida brasiliensis and their agricultural insect pest prey in Texas, US
Michael Whitby (Ball State University, United States) Evaluating the effectiveness of three acoustic-monitoring techniques for landscape-level bat population monitoring, US (IL)
Leo Model Foundation, Inc.
Lynne Burns (Dalhousie University, Canada) Structure and movements of bat populations among swarming sites: development and application of microsatellite genetic markers, Canada
Bruno Silva (Évora University, Portugal) Automated acoustic identification of bat species, Portugal
Iroro Tanshi (University of Benin, Nigeria) Diversity and aspects of chiropteran ecology in Edo State: status and conservation, Nigeria
Leo Model Foundation, Inc. & BCI WNS Emergency Response Fund
Kate Langwig (Boston University, United States) Host community susceptibility to White-nose Syndrome, US (NY, VT, CT, PA)
Dana Lee (Oklahoma State University, United States) Genetic structure of Ozark big-eared bat populations and establishment of a noninvasive population-monitoring program (OK, AR)
Lisa Powers (University of Illinois, United States) Effects of nonlethal Geomyces destructans infection on reproductive rate and parturition date in cave-hibernating bats, US (IL)
Bats and Wind Energy Cooperative
Kevin Heist (University of Minnesota, United States) Siting wind farms for wildlife: Predicting bird and bat fatality risk at prospective wind-farm sites using call recorders, US (IA, MN).
Helena Santos (Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Portugal) Using species distribution modeling to predict bat fatality risk at wind farms, Portugal. |
