Outreach & Media

 We actively communicate our science, and believe that it is important to make science and technology understandable and accessible. Our lab is often buzzing with the excitement of scientific discovery because we work at the intersection of emerging genetic technologies, fascinating mammals, and urgent conservation questions. We enjoy communicating this excitement and translating our results to the public and to STEM students. 

• NAU News, 2023. Using airborne DNA to track the planet's most ubiquitous mammal

• Axios Phoenix, 2023. How an Arizona professor is protecting "tequila bats"

• The NAU Review, 2023. Vampires, bats and vampire bats

• NAU News, 2019. NAU researchers receive grants to study threatened, endangered species in American Southwest 

• NAU News, 2019. New research from NAU team expands the answers we can get from bat guano

• NAU News, 2018. Hyenas, hippos and lions joined NAU's inaugural study abroad class to Zambia

• Mother Jones. 2018. Scientists are learning exciting new things

• NAU News, 2017, Hanging with bats: NAU professors share their research and love of this small flying mammal

• PLOS Research News Author Spotlight, 2016

• California Academy of Sciences News, 2016

• NRDC's onEarth, 2016, Head's Up, Endangered Species: Scientists are Spying on You

• NAU News, 2016, NAU researchers make their mark with new DNA testing tool

• KNAU Arizona Public Radio, 2016

• Scienceblogs, 2016

• Discovery Channel News, 2016

• Cosmos Magazine, 2016

• KNAU's Brain Food features Ancient DNA Lab, 2016

• Walker research team helps discover a new bat in MN, 2016

• The Wildlife Professional magazine of The Wildlife Society, Guano provides genetic material to identify bat species, Fall 2015

• KNAU Earthnotes, 2015, All the poop on rarely seen animals.

• NAU News, 2014, Unique guano innovation gives straight poop on species populations.