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Texas A&M University

Smotherman Bat Lab

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Sensory Ecology Lab

Our lab explores the sensory ecology and neurobiology of bats.  Students conduct a wide variety of lab and field experiments to better understand how bats are able to navigate and hunt by echolocation, olfaction and vision. The results lead to new insights about how the bats brain and behavioral strategies are specialized to support their amazing and unique lifestyle, and by studying their social behaviors we aim to help ensure their conservation. Our studies also provide bio-inspired solutions for emerging technological problems in artificial communication systems, sonar  systems used in autonomous vehicles, disaster drones, and  robotics.
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Recent News

Dr. Alyson Brokaw graduated from Texas A&M University on May 8th, earning her PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Congratulations Alyson! Check out Alyson's latest paper in Journal of Experimental Biology.

Olivia Butaud has been awarded the 2021 H.Joseph Newton Dean's Excellence Award in Service to Science.  Way to go Olivia!

Alyson Brokaw successfully defended her PhD thesis, "Olfactory Tracking Behaviors in Bats" on December 9th!  
Congratulations to Dr. Alyson F. Brokaw!

Alyson Brokaw was awarded the 2019 Ernst Mayr Fellowship to study Olfactory Tracking Strategies in Bats at the Smithsonian Tropicap Research Institute in Panama with Dr. Rachel Page.
Alyson will spend the fall semester of 2019 in Gamboa making some very cool videos!

Dr. Grace Smarsh was awarded a 2017 Zuckerman Postdoctoral Scholarship to conduct research at Tel Aviv University in the lab of Dr. Yossi Yovel.

Undergraduates (Amber Patricio, Katherine Miller, Khirstyn Lien) won second place for their poster at the 2018 Houston Regional Ecology and Evolution Symposium at the University of Houston!


​Dr. Grace Smarsh successfully defended her PhD thesis on May 22nd! Congrats on her upcoming Fulbright postdoc in Israel!

​​Grace Smarsh received a student speaker award at the 17th International Bat Research Symposium in South Africa.


Check out the feature article on Grace's research in BATS magazine (issue 3, 2016) and her interview with Bat Conservation International!

​Alyson Brokaw received a Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Grant from the American Museum of Natural History to study Stunira lilium in Mexico
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