Vice President: Dave Johnston
I am a Senior Wildlife Ecologist at H.T. Harvey & Associates and have worked with California bats since 1992 when I began my Ph.D. thesis on pallid bats at York University under Dr. Brock Fenton. I am currently the co-chair for the California Bat Working Group and an elected, at-large, board officer for the Western Bat Working Group. Through H. T. Harvey & Associates, I have worked on over 50 transportation-related projects involving mitigation measures for bats, and have also conducted large scale surveys for bats on federal lands for many agencies. I taught Mammalogy and Ecosystems of the San Francisco Bay Area as a lecturer at Santa Clara University and am now an Adjunct Professor at San Jose State University. My students and I are investigating the foraging ecology of various bats in California, the impacts to bat populations 3 from urbanization and transportation issues, and swimming behavior in bats. My colleagues at H. T. Harvey & Associates and I are currently researching methodologies to study wind turbine impacts to bats and birds at the Montezuma Hills Wind Energy Area in Central California. I teach workshops on bats through the California Academy of Sciences, The Wildlife Society, and Bat Conservation International. I serve on the scientific advisory committee for San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory, as a peer reviewer for the journal Mammalia, and on the Scientific Advisory Committee for the Altamont Pass Wind Energy Resource Area (APWERA) and in other advisory capacities. I am currently working on a Conservation Plan for Bats of California through a California Fish and Game grant to the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley. I also have on-going bat projects in Belize and Baja California.
Dave Johnston, Ph.D
Senior Wildlife Ecologist
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