Welcome to the
Center for Ecology and Conservation Biology - CECB

• Addressing training needs for students in Tropical Ecology
• Forging cross-disciplinary studies and collaboration
• Promoting research opportunities for scientists and students

• Support Research on Tropical Ecology and Conservation

• Support Research on White-Nose Syndrome

• Tiputini Support Group

Kunz Bat Lab

CECB News

• Kunz lab thermal camera research featured on TheScientist.com - Behavior in Action: Tools and Techniques for Tracking Mammalian Behavior.

• BU Today joins the Tropical Ecology Program students in the Galapagos. Check out the video:

• Dr. Kunz nominated for the prestigious 2010 Indianapolis Prize. Kunz is one of 29 animal ecologists and conservation biologists worldwide to be nominated for the biennial award.

• BBC article "Bats set up homes on the highway" features recent Kunz lab graduate Louise Allen's research.

• CECB faculty associate John Finnerty named new director of BUMP (BU Marine Program)

White Nose Syndrome (WNS) articles and information:

• November, 2009 - What's killing the bats? - Boston Globe feature story on WNS
• September, 2009 - Tom Kunz featured on CBS News! Check out: Declining Bat Population
• Kunz lab's WNS and thermal camera research featured on BU Today
• August, 2009 - Lake George bat cave nearly depopulated by 'white nose syndrome'
• July, 2009 - "Mystery of the massive bat die-off"
• June, 2009 - Dr. Kunz participates in a Congressional hearing on WNS - read more here and here
• Voice of America - Tom Kunz discusses the implications of WNS in this video:
  
  

• May, 2009 - New Jersey Star Ledger - Disease leads to steep decline in New Jersey bat population
• April, 2009 - Boston Globe - Sick bats' PR problem could prove to be deadly
• March, 2009 - Video - White Nose Syndrome at Aeolus Cave in Vermont
• In the Dark - Nature Conservancy Magazine's Spring 09 article on WNS
• Beth Daley's article in the Boston Globe "What Are These Bats Telling Us About the Environment We Live In?"; Follow-up article.

  More WNS Info:

• U.S.G.S white nose syndrome page
• Bat Conservation and Management WNS information page
• National Speleogical Society White Nose Syndrome page

To support WNS research, click here!

 

• Research team led by CECB faculty associate Margrit Betke awarded a $2.8 million grant. CECB Director Tom Kunz is a co-investigator. The team will model group behavior by studying movements of bats, cells, and humans. Read more.

• CECB faculty associate Les Kaufman wins "Partners in Conservation" award from the Department of Interior, for his team's long-term research monitoring coral reef health in the Flower Gardens Banks National Marine Sanctuary

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Aeroecology

Dr. Kunz's research and the emerging discipline of aeroecology are featured on the NSF "Discoveries" website. Kunz uses NEXRAD Doppler radar to identify and document the movement of bats in the aerosphere, and to help us understand how organisms are affected by changing atmospheric conditions as well as anthropogenic factors.

Read more about aeroecology here.

EBE Seminar Series
Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution

Craig Frank
Fordham University
"The relationship between diet composition, climate change, and the evolution of hibernation in mammals"

Monday, November 23rd, 2009
12pm in BRB 113

Fall Seminar Series Schedule

Check out Save America's Forests
Yasuní Rainforest Campaign

Information about the Yasuní's biodiversity and indigenous people, and the oil and gas projects that pose such threats to the region.

Photo by Lindsey Warren

Photo by Scott Appleby

Photo courtesy of Linsey Field

Dr. Christopher Schneider
Associate Director

Freya Hendrickson
Center Administrator

Center for Ecology and
Conservation Biology
Boston University
5 Cummington St., Rm. 431
Boston, MA 02215

Telephone: 617. 353. 6982
Fax: 617. 353. 5383

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