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Earth From Space

Training Videos

Getting Started

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Intro to NABat

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Using the Partner Portal Cell Selection Tool

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Understanding the NABat Master Sample

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What's in a [Site] Name?

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Creating an NABat Partner Portal Project

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The NABat R Package

Acoustics

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Planning, Prep, & Protocols for Stationary Acoustics

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Processing Acoustic Data Using Kaleidoscope Pro

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Reference Calls [Part 2]

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Planning, Prep, & Protocols for Mobile Acoustics

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Processing Acoustic Data Using SonoBat

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Working with Large Datasets [Part 1]

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Navigating the Updated Acoustic Upload Templates

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Reference Calls [Part 1]

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Working with Large Datasets [Part 2]

Non-Acoustics

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Understanding Bats through Community Science

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Updated Capture Upload Template/ Aligning with USFWS Permit Reporting

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The NEW NABat Transportation Structure Upload Template

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Using PIT Tags to Study Bats

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All About Winter Colony Counts

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Bats in Transportation Structures

Year in Review

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2024: Year in Review

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2023: Year in Review

Reports & Background Documents

A Plan for the North American Bat Monitoring Program

A Plan for the North American Bat Monitoring Program

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Monitoring Trends in Bat Populations of the United States and Territories

Monitoring Trends in Bat Populations of the United States and Territories: Problems and Prospects

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State of the Bats - Conservation Status and Threats to North American Bats

Assessing Bridges, Culverts, and Tunnels for Bat Presence and Use

Assessing Bridges, Culverts, and Tunnels for Bat Presence and Use

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NABat a top-down bottom-up solution to collaborative continental-scale monitoring

NABat: A Top-down, Bottom-up Solution to Collaborative Continental-scale Monitoring

Acoustic Survey Guidance

A Guide to Processing Bat Acoustic Data for NABat

A Guide to Processing Bat Acoustic Data for the North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat)

NABat Mobile Acoustic SOP 1 - Locating and Establishing Mobile Transect Routes

NABat Mobile Acoustic SOP 1: Locating and Establishing Mobile Transect Routes

NABat Mobile Acoustics SOP 2 -- Field Season and Survey Preparation

NABat Mobile Acoustic SOP 2: Field Season and Survey Preparation

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NABat Mobile Acoustics SOP 3 -- Conducting Mobile Transect Surveys

NABat Mobile Acoustic SOP 3: Conducting Mobile Transect Surveys

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NABat Guide to Acoustic Detector Settings​

Link to Resource

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Configuring AudioMoth for Bat Acoustic Surveys

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NABat AudioMoth Configuration [config] File

Analyses

Evaluating evidence of Changing Regional Occupancy of Four Bat Species in Response to Fore

Evaluating Evidence of Changing Regional Occupancy of Four Bat Species in Response to Forest Management Practices

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Hierarchical Mixture Models and High-Resolution Monitoring Data Can Inform Siting and Oper

Hierarchical Mixture Models and High-Resolution Monitoring Data Can Inform Siting and Operational Strategies to Mitigate Bat Fatalities at Wind Turbines

Leveraging an Observed-Data Likelihood Improves the Use of Machine Learning Labels in a Ba

Leveraging an Observed-Data Likelihood Improves the Use of Machine Learning Labels in Bayesian Hierarchical Model for Bioacoustic Data

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Multi-scale Predictors of Northern Long-eared Bat (Myotis septentrionalis) Occupancy in the U.S.

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Estimating Disease Prevalence

Estimating disease prevalence from preferentially sampled, pooled data

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Integrated Distribution Modeling Resolves Asynchrony between Bat Population Impacts and Occupancy Trends through Latent Abundance

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Predicting Bat Roosts in Bridges Using Bayesian Additive Regression Trees

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The state of bats in North America

The State of Bats in North America

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Using mobile acoustic monitoring

Using Mobile Acoustic Monitoring and False-positive N-mixture Models to Estimate Bat Abundance and Population Trends

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Joint Spatial Modeling Bridges the Gap Between Disparate Disease Surveillance and Populati

Joint Spatial Modeling Bridges the Gap Between Disparate Disease Surveillance and Population Monitoring Efforts Informing Conservation of At-risk Bat Species

Statistical assessment on determining local presence of rare bat species

Statistical assessment on determining local presence of rare bat species

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Status and Trends of North American Bats Summer Occupancy Analysis

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Analytical Assessment in Support of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 3-Bat Species Status Assessment

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Spatial Gaussian Processes Improve Multi-species Occupancy Models when Range Boundaries ar

Spatial Guassian Processes Improve Multi-species Occupancy Models When Range Boundaries are Uncertain and Nonoverlapping

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Coupling validation effort with bioacoustic data

Coupling Validation Effort with In Situ Bioacoustic Data Improves Estimating Relative Activity and Occupancy for Multiple Species with Cross-Species Misclassifications

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The Scope and Severity of White-nose Syndrome on Hibernating Bats in North America

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Modelling Misclassification in Multi-species Acoustic Data When Estimating Occupancy and R

Modelling Misclassification in Multi-species Acoustic Data When Estimating Occupancy and Relative Activity

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Data Releases

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Results and Code from NABat's Integrated Species Distribution and Trend Models for Hoary Bat and Silver-haired Bat (2025)

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NABat Knitted Grid and Multi-scale Grid Covariates (2025)

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Summer Roost Site Suitability Analyses of Four North American Bat Species in the Eastern United States (2024)

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NABat Bayesian Hierarchical Model for Winter Abundance Predicted Population Estimates (2023)

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Supplemental Results and Code from NABat Integrated Species Distribution Model for Tricolored Bat (2025)

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Extrapolated Offshore Occupancy Predictions for Three Bat Species (2025)

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NABat Predicted Northern Long-eared Bat Occupancy Probabilities (2024)

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Integrated Summer Species Distribution Model: Predicted Tricolored Bat Occupancy Probabilities (2023)

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NABat One Health (version 2.0, 2025)

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Supplemental Results from Using Mobile Acoustic Monitoring and False-positive N-mixture Models for Bat Abundance (2024)

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NABat Integrated Summer Species Distribution Model Predicted Tricolored Bat Occupancy Probabilities (version 1.1, 2024)

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NABat Grid-based Offshore Sampling Frame (2022)

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NABat Master Sample and Grid-based Sampling Frame (2018)

Software & Code Releases

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NABat R Data Connection Package (version 1.2.1, 2025)

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NABat Acoustic ML (version 2.0.0, 2024)

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NABat R Data Connection Package (version 1.1.0, 2024)

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NABat Acoustic ML (version 1.0.1, 2022)

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Ecosystems-nabat-FPabund: software for fitting false-positive N-mixture models using NABat mobile acoustic data (version 1.0.0, 2024)

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2018 by Bat Conservation International in partnership with the NABat Program

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