Bats are superheroes of the night. Their superpowers could help us protect them.
Conservationists are using bats' echolocation abilities to help track these mammals, as many of them succumb to white nose syndrome.
Cori Lausen
Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Canada
Cori Lausen is the director of Bat Conservation at Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Canada. She joined WCS Canada in 2011 as part of her NSERC Industrial Research and Development Fellowship, investigating winter bat activity and hibernation in western Canada. Her program focuses largely on a science-based response to white-nose syndrome, a catastrophic disease impacting bats in North America. She completed her PhD in Ecology at the University of Calgary in 2007. Both her Masters and PhD research were on bats, with the former focusing on behaviour and physiology, and the latter on landscape genetics.
