{"id":1316,"date":"2014-10-15T22:53:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T05:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/?p=1316"},"modified":"2016-07-14T21:37:37","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T04:37:37","slug":"notes-from-the-field-moses-coulee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/notes-from-the-field-moses-coulee\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from the Field: Moses Coulee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rochelle, Jeff and I \u00a0headed out to Moses Coulee to catch bats in the shrub-steppe. The primary goal of this trip was to be guest researchers for an\u00a0Urban Conservation course through the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coenv.washington.edu\/conservationscholars\/\" target=\"_blank\">Doris Duke Conservation Scholars program<\/a>. We took the students out mist-netting and showed them what it was like to be a real bat researcher. Even though time was limited, we had success the first night out! We caught two amazing species, the Canyon bat (<i style=\"color: #252525;\">Parastrellus hesperus)<\/i> and the Townsend&#8217;s big-eared bat (<span style=\"color: #545454;\"><em>Corynorhinus townsendii<\/em>). This group of students was extremely interested in many aspects of bat research: from managing museum collections, to emerging research and basic biology of bats. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This excursion also allowed us to set up some of our new equipment, a triple high mist-net that Rochelle and I\u00a0lovingly named &#8220;Monster&#8221;. We ventured\u00a0out for a second night of mist-netting, &#8220;Monster&#8221; in hand, \u00a0with the optimistic hope of catching a Spotted bat (<em><span style=\"color: #545454;\">Euderma maculatum<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #545454;\">)<\/span>. We did not succeed in netting a\u00a0spotted bat, but we did catch a Pallid bat (<em><span style=\"color: #545454;\">Antrozous pallidus<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #545454;\">)<\/span> which was also very exciting! Overall this was a successful trip for us to see the diversity of species in a different part of the state and to help spread awareness about bat ecology, conservation and research.<\/p>\n<p>[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=&#8221;5&#8243; gal_title=&#8221;Moses Coulee&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rochelle, Jeff and I \u00a0headed out to Moses Coulee to catch bats in the shrub-steppe. The primary goal of this trip was to be guest researchers for an\u00a0Urban Conservation course through the Doris Duke Conservation Scholars program. We took the students out mist-netting and showed them what it was like to be a real bat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1711,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions\/1711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}