Researchers

I am the Chief Scientist at Bat Conservation International and an Associate Research Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. I have worked on desert bat ecology on the Baja California peninsula since 2004, when I started my doctoral research on island biogeography and community ecology of bats on islands in the Gulf of California. I’ve worked on foraging ecology of desert bats and bat-plant interactions between bats and the columnar cacti on the Baja peninsula. I have long-term research sites on the Baja peninsula that investigate seasonal and population ecology of the lesser long-nosed bat (Leptonycteris yerbabuenae), a migratory nectar-feeding bat that was recently delisted from endangered status in the US and Mexico. As Chief Scientist at Bat Conservation International, I oversee the scientific research to inform conservation of bats around the world. We are currently working on landscape scale approaches to agave habitat restoration for migratory nectar feeding bats in the borderlands and northeastern Mexico.