Bat Conservation Trust

This year’s programme will cover many exciting and varied subjects. If you have never attended our Conference before then do consider coming along - there’s always something new to learn, even for the most knowledgeable bat enthusiasts! Book your place today online via www.bats.org.uk.

Programme for the National Bat Conference 2010

Friday 10th September

Evening bat walk around the university campus / Meeting of the Bat Worker Forum

Saturday 11th September

Conservation of cave-dwelling bat species in Turkish Thrace (Emrah Coraman, Bogazici University)

A year without hibernation (Julia Hanmer, BCT)

The Combe Down Stabilisation Project - resolution of conflicts between bats & human needs, 2000–2010

(Roger Ransome, Bat Pro Ltd, University of Bristol)

Examining evidence for demographic Allee effects in nine UK bat species (Stephen Gregory, Université Paris-Sud XI)

Bat monitoring at Finemere Wood (Matthew Dodds, North Bucks Bat Group)

How echolocation evolved (Alanna Maltby, Institute of Zoology, ZSL, University College London)

Habitat preferences of UK bats as revealed by NBMP monitoring data (Katherine Boughey, University of East Anglia)

White-nose syndrome: past, present and future (Sebastien Puechmaille & Emma Teeling, University College Dublin)

Presentation from Vincent Weir Research Award winner 2010 (TBC)

Bat habitat preferences in urban areas (Cath Laing, Sussex Bat Group)

Sunday 12th September

Predicting changes in Southeast Asian bat species distributions over 20,000 years (Alice Hughes, University of Bristol)

Irish Bat Monitoring Schemes 2003 to 2010 (Niamh Roche & Tina Aughney, Bat Conservation Ireland)

What genes can tell us about bats that we would otherwise not have known (Gareth Jones, University of Bristol)

Bats in the urban landscape (James Hale, University of Birmingham)

Advances in understanding of bat lyssaviruses (Dan Horton, Veterinary Laboratories Agency)

Population ecology of Daubenton’s bats in the Yorkshire Dales (Emma Rigby, University of Leeds)

Bats underground-delving into the underworld in the name of research (Dave Anderson,

Towneley Hall Museum and East Lancashire Bat Group)

Bats, birds and biodiversity (Nick Tomlinson, BCT, Dorset and Somerset Bat Groups)

All workshops are listed below. Please note that you are able to book these in advance.

*Tea & coffee sponsored by Natural England  

**Conference dinner sponsored by OHES Environmental

Description

Pricing

Standard weekend package

includes:
-Fri/Sat night standard accommodation
-Fri night dinner
-Sat/Sun breakfast & lunch, tea & coffee.

Please note: the Conference dinner is NOT included in this ticket

£210.00

Premier weekend package

Includes:
-Fri/Sat night en-suite accommodation
-Fri night dinner
-Sat/Sun breakfast & lunch, tea & coffee
-Conference dinner on Sat night

£270.00

Standard Saturday package

Includes:
-Sat night in standard accommodation,
-Sat & Sun lunch, tea & coffee
-Sun breakfast.

Please note: the Conference dinner is NOT included in this ticket

£150.00

Premier Saturday package

Includes:
-Sat night en-suite accommodation,
-Sat & Sun lunch, tea & coffee
-Conference dinner on Sat night,
-Sun breakfast

£215.00

Non-residential weekend (Saturday and Sunday)

Includes:
-Sat and Sun lunch, tea & coffee.

Please note: the Conference dinner is NOT included in this ticket

£135.00

Weekend day rate (Saturday only)

Includes:
-Sat lunch, tea & coffee.

Please note: the Conference dinner is NOT included in this ticket

£105.00

Weekend day rate (Sunday only)

Includes:
-Sun lunch, tea & coffee

£105.00

• Loughborough University
• Loughborough University
• Loughborough
• LE11 3TU
• GB