Joseph P Chabarek, PhD

Joe works on the North American Bat Monitoring Program. (NABat) is 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 195 million measurement observations from 500 organizations including over 150TB 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. 

Joe also works on modernizing the Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) portal. The Breeding Bird Survey has collected standardized bird population data across North America since 1966. These data support continental-scale analyses of bird population trends and inform management decisions. The BBS data entry portal modernizes how survey participants interact with the program and is built using modern web standards and follows U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) guidelines for accessibility and usability across government websites.