Phys.org, Maine Edge publish report on Blomberg’s bat population research
Phys.org and The Maine Edge carried a University of Maine news release on bat research by Erik Blomberg, an assistant professor in the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation Biology at the University of Maine. Through his research, Blomberg wants to bring the massive declines in bat populations to the public’s attention, educate residents about the extensive services that the animals provide to humans, improve monitoring methods used by researchers to evaluate Maine’s bat populations and involve citizen scientists. Blomberg created a pilot citizen science-based bat-monitoring project named BatME and has since teamed up with Maine Audubon.