https:\/\/zoom.us\/j\/868210230<\/a>\u00a0at 1:30 p.m. Thursday.\u00a0Lear\u2019s Zoom lecture will be hosted by OWU professor of botany and microbiology Laurie Anderson, Ph.D., and include time for audience questions.<\/p>\nAt OWU, Lear majored in pre-professional zoology and spent two summers researching Evening Bats in Texas. Her work, supported by an OWU Connection Theory-to-Practice Grant, involved determining the style of house that attracted the most bats to live near the region\u2019s pecan orchards. The bats help to control destructive, boring insects and reduce the need for chemical pesticides to protect the valuable trees.<\/p>\n
As an OWU senior, Lear also earned a Fulbright Scholarship to research conservation of the critically endangered Southern Bent-wing Bat in Australia. The Fulbright enabled her to live and work for a year in Naracoorte Caves National Park in South Australia. While there, she collaborated with researchers seeking to develop an automated counting system for critically endangered Southern Bent-wing Bats using thermal-imaging cameras and missile-tracking software.<\/p>\n
In 2014, Lear earned a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to support her enrollment in the doctoral program in the University of Georgia\u2019s Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources. In 2016, she earned one of six 2016 Graduate Student Policy Awards given by the Ecological Society of America, enabling her to participate in policy training with U.S. lawmakers in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n
For Lear\u2019s dissertation, she worked with the Mexican conservation organization Especies, Sociedad y Habitat, A.C. (ESHAC) to help conserve the endangered Mexican long-nosed bat and other nectar-feeding bats in northeast Mexico. Her research was supported by a 2018 National Geographic Early Career Grant.<\/p>\n
Wow! Don’t miss this chance to hear Kristen Lear today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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