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Joseph P Chabarek, PhD

Computer Scientist with the FORT Ecoinformatics and Wildlife Technology (ECOTECH) Branch

Joe works on the North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat), a continental-scale bat population monitoring program. A multi-disciplinary team comprised of biologists, quantitative ecologists, statisticians, data scientists, outreach and user support staff, and software engineers work collaboratively to provide the services, resources, digital infrastructure, and science that support the success of the broader NABat collective. This USGS team works closely alongside federal partners and external end users to develop technical solutions for complex applied problems relevant to decision workflows that cover or consider bats. With a small, dedicated team, NABat software systems have accrued over 100 million measurement observations from 500 organizations including over 80 terabytes of acoustic data. They strive to reduce the burden of data collection by offering innovative, user focused, technical solutions for priority science programs and initiatives that include custom cloud-based applications.

Professional Experience

  • Computer Scientist, USGS, 2023–Present

Education and Certifications

  • University of Wisconsin Madison, Computer Sciences, PhD

  • University of Wisconsin Madison, Computer Sciences, Masters

  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Computer Science, Bachelors

Science and Products

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Bats benefit from maintaining a close-knit roosting group.

North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat)

North American bats face unprecedented threats including habitat loss and fragmentation, white-nose syndrome, wind energy development, and climate change. However, it is difficult to evaluate the impacts of these threats due to a lack of basic information about the distribution and abundance of bats across the continent. Although bat monitoring has long been conducted in individual areas and for...
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Biological Threats and Invasive Species Research Program, Species Management Research Program, Fort Collins Science Center, Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center
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North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat)

North American bats face unprecedented threats including habitat loss and fragmentation, white-nose syndrome, wind energy development, and climate change. However, it is difficult to evaluate the impacts of these threats due to a lack of basic information about the distribution and abundance of bats across the continent. Although bat monitoring has long been conducted in individual areas and for...
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Science and Products

link
Bats benefit from maintaining a close-knit roosting group.

North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat)

North American bats face unprecedented threats including habitat loss and fragmentation, white-nose syndrome, wind energy development, and climate change. However, it is difficult to evaluate the impacts of these threats due to a lack of basic information about the distribution and abundance of bats across the continent. Although bat monitoring has long been conducted in individual areas and for...
By
Biological Threats and Invasive Species Research Program, Species Management Research Program, Fort Collins Science Center, Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center
link

North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat)

North American bats face unprecedented threats including habitat loss and fragmentation, white-nose syndrome, wind energy development, and climate change. However, it is difficult to evaluate the impacts of these threats due to a lack of basic information about the distribution and abundance of bats across the continent. Although bat monitoring has long been conducted in individual areas and for...
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