Jennifer Krauel flickr bats

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at Southern Illinois University in the Boyles lab. I received my Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2014. Before coming to Tennessee, I completed a Master’s degree in Biology (Ecology and Systematics) in the LeBuhn lab at San Francisco State University. My undergraduate degree was in Information Technology from the School of Business at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

While my personal interest in biology started at a young age, I started out on a very different path. With a degree in business and IT, I worked in a wide variety of software product development and management positions at Hewlett-Packard and Oracle as well as at a small Internet start-up. Eventually I decided to switch gears and turn my interest in the natural world into a career. During the transition period, I brought my corporate leadership experience to serve as a board member and then board president of the non-profit San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory.

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Western long-eared bat Myotis evotis

Silver-haired bat Lasionycteris noctivagans

Townsend's big-eared bat

Mexican freetail

Townsend's big-eared bat

Big brown bat Eptesicus fuscus

Pallid bat

Golden ear Ardops nichollsi

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Mormoops

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Mormoops

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Freetail with cool markings

Saccopteryx bilineata

This bat was relatively common and often the first bat in the net in the evening. An emballonurid, it has sac-shaped glands on its wings. We're not sure why.