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2013 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 2013 BCI Scholarships.
 General Scholarship Information
We congratulate the winners of the 2012 BCI Student Research Scholarships and gratefully recognize the generous donors whose support made them possible:
U.S. Forest Service International Programs
Marcio Almeida (Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil) Insectivorous bat activity in forest and urban habitats of the metropolitan region of Vitaria, Brazil
Priscilla Alpizar (Universidad de Costa Rica) Insectivorous bats in agro ecosystems: richness, relative abundance and diet, Costa Rica
Diego Casallas-Pabon (Universidad Nacional de Colombia) Bats’ seed dispersal and the development of artificial bat roosts as a strategy for restoration ecology of tropical forests, Colombia
Erika de la Pena (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) Importance of the riparian vegetation for the bat community in a fragmented tropical landscape of Mexico: implications of management and conservation
Daniel Karp (Stanford University, United States) Modeling bat-mediated pest control across the Costa Rican countryside (Costa Rica)
Ryszard Oleksy (University of Bristol, United Kingdom) The contribution of fruit bats to forest regeneration in Madagascar: do bat-processed seeds do better? Madagascar
Kseniia Kravchenko (Wroclaw University, Poland) Bat migration and development of wind energy in Ukraine
Kendra Phelps (Texas Tech University, United States) Cave bats in crisis: Impact of anthropogenic disturbances on cave-dependent bats, Philippines
Juliana Senawi (Texas Tech University, United States) Response of insectivorous bats assemblages to land-use change in peninsular Malaysia
Kirby Waddington (University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa) Can't we all just get along? Sensory bias may reduce interspecific competition in animalivorous bat ensembles
Anonymous
Devaughn Fraser (University of California Los Angeles, United States) Effects of pesticide exposure on individual fitness, pathogen susceptibility and demography of insectivorous bat in California, United States
Emma Gomez-Ruiz (Texas A&M University, United States) Identifying priority sites for the conservation of the migratory endangered bat Leptonycteris nivalis, United States and Mexico
Jennifer Krauel (University of Tennessee, United States) Linking bat and insect migratory behavior: Tadarida brasiliensis and their agricultural insect pest prey in Texas, United States
Joseph & Valerie Craig
Kristin Jonasson (University of Western Ontario, Canada) Energetics and movement ecology of bat migration, Canada
Cory Toth (University of Auckland, New Zealand) The breeding ecology of the lesser short-tailed bat (Mystacina tuberculata), New Zealand
Frank Cross Foundation
Nathan Fuller (Boston University, United States) An automated aerial telemetry system for tracking bats (United States)
Golden Rule Foundation
Elizabeth Braun de Torrez (Boston University, United States) Bats, Bugs and Pecans: Using next-generation pyrosequencing to evaluate ecosystem services of insectivorous bats (United States)
Jessica Tait (Cranfield University, United Kingdom) Are flying foxes moving into town? Roost Selection by the threatened spectacled flying-fox in Northern Queensland, Australia
Leo Model Foundation
Laura Heiker (University of Northern Colorado, United States) Bat community composition in relation to habitat fragmentation, China
Annette Hernandez (Havana University, Cuba) Roost temperature requirements in two Neotropical bats: heterothermy and normothermy in the light of climate change.
Jesika Reimer (University of Calgary, Canada) Adaptations of Myotis lucifugus at northern latitudes in the face of climate change and White-nose Syndrome, Canada
Alynn Martin (Grand Valley State University, United States) Analyzing population limits and gene flow in Perimyotis subflavus with applications to White-nose Syndrome conservation, United States
Lisa Powers (University of Illinois, United States) Effects of non-lethal Geomyces destructans infection on birth rate and parturition date in cave-hibernating bats, United States
Wildlife Acoustics, Inc.
Grace Smarsh (Texas A&M University, United States) Using African singing bats as indicator species in a changing environment, Tanzania |
