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Sybill Amelon

Sybill Amelon, hailed by Lori Godsey of Marshall Parks and Recreation Research Wildlife Biologist  as "one of about three specialists on bats worldwide" has accomplished much in her 37-year career with the U.S. Forest Service. This amazing woman holds a postdoctoral associate at the MU College of Agriculture and has produced numerous publications including. In her day job Amelon says she has to identify up to 400 bats a month that have been killed primarily by frightened homeowners. In 2004 Amelon's team helped discover the first colony of pregnant Indiana bats in Mark Twain National Forest in southern Missouri. Outside of work she volunteers her time to contribute to bat conservation too. She is a North American Society for Bat Research Board Director and a partner and researcher for whitenosesyndrome.org. She participates in efforts related to the NSS too. In 2012 she was a speaker for the 5th Annual White-Nose Syndrome Symposium. Nice work Sybill. Thank you for your extraordinary ordinary work for bat conservation.

SOURCES
http://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/people/Amelon

http://www.forums.caves.org/viewtopic.php?f=58&t=14098&start=0

http://www.nasbr.org/board.html

http://agebb.missouri.edu/news/ext/showall.asp?story_num=4866&iln=51

https://www.whitenosesyndrome.org/resource/assessing-impact-wns-genetic-viability-indiana-bats-interim-report-1-2010

http://www.voxmagazine.com/stories/2007/06/14/good-bat-and-ugly/

http://business.highbeam.com/435553/article-1G1-119956314/biologists-hit-mother-lode-discovery-pregnant-indiana

http://www.marshallnews.com/story/1663794.html

IMAGE FROM
missouri bat census facebook post

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