Going to great lengths to study LI bats
Photo credit: Newsday / John Paraskevas | Tim Green, a Brookhaven National Lab employee, drives in Shirley as graduate student Caitlin White monitors a laptop for bat audio signals from an acoustic detector last month. They’re part of an effort to gauge populations and health of bats in the Northeast. (June 28, 2011)
Scientists who track wildlife end up in some tricky spots -- flailing in mud, swarmed by mosquitoes, teetering at the edge of a canoe.
But the biggest danger encountered this summer by researchers embarking on the first survey of Long Island's bat population was strictly automotive. Armed with a car-mounted microphone, they had to drive Suffolk roads slowly enough -- 20 mph -- to record the...
