Meeting Announcements
2009 SBDN BAT BLITZ
August 9 - 12, 2009
Mark Twain National Forest, MO
The 8th SBDN Bat Blitz will be at University Forest in Wappapello, Missouri. The
University Forest Environmental Education Center is located at the southeast
edge of the Missouri Ozarks in Butler County, just 14 miles north of
Poplar
Bluff near Lake Wappapello. University Forest is uniquely situated at the
junction of three major forest ecosystem types: upland oak-hickory,
oak-shortleaf pine and Mississippi Delta bottomland hardwoods.
A maximum 64 participants and 16 team leaders will be accepted for participation in the
event. Registration deadline is June 12, 2009. For more information and the
April 8, 2009 update on number of slots still open, go to
our Bat Blitz info page.
63rd ANNUAL SEAFWA CONFERENCE
November 1-4, 2009
Atlanta, Georgia
SEAFWA Call for Papers, Posters, and Abstracts.
Manuscripts and abstracts are now being accepted for the Proceedings of
the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies. Presentations of
accepted work will be made at the 63rd Annual Southeastern Association of Fish
and Wildlife Agencies Conference, November 1-4, 2009 in Atlanta, GA. Authors may
submit manuscripts, abstracts for oral-only presentations, and poster abstracts.
Manuscripts and all abstracts are due by COB, June 1, 2009. For additional
information and submission guidelines, visit seafwa2009.org.
Mark D. Smith, mds0007@auburn.edu.
BIG-EARED BATS SYMPOSIUM 2010
March 9 - 11, 2010
Athens, Georgia
Mark Your Calendars!
The Southeastern Bat Diversity Network will host a Symposium on Conservation and
Management of Big-eared Bats (Corynorhinus) in the Eastern United States in Athens,
Georgia on March 9-11, 2010. The program will include two and a half days of invited and
solicited presentations (oral and poster) covering the three taxa of big-eared bats in the
eastern United States (Ozark Big-eared Bat, Virginia Big-eared Bat, and Rafinesque's
Big-eared Bat). The symposium will target land managers, researchers, natural resources
administrators, and students interested in the biology, ecology, conservation, and
management of eastern big-eared bats.
We seek oral and poster presentations on the biology, ecology, conservation, and
management of eastern big-eared bats. Oral presenters may submit a manuscript for
possible publication in the symposium proceedings. For more information, visit the
symposium web site at
http://warnell.forestry.uga.edu/big_eared_bats/ or contact Steven
Castleberry at scastle@warnell.uga.edu.
