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About the lab
Our lab explores the behavioral ecology and neurobiology of biosonar and acoustic communication in bats. Students conduct a wide variety of lab and field experiments using acoustical, electrophysiological and videographic tools to better understand how bats are able to navigate and hunt by sound. The results lead to new insights about how the bats brain and behavioral strategies are specialized to support their amazing echolocation capabilities, 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 and drones, and robotics.
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Recent News
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.
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.