Publications/Presentations
Popular Articles/Blogs
Bats in the Cracks – Rock and Ice Magazine online, Birch Malotky, May 2019
Biologist recruits rock climbers to help save Colorado’s bats – Boulder Weekly, Will Brendza, October 2018
Colorado climbers race to gather data about bats before fungal disease hits the state – Pacific Standard, Sophie Yeo, September 2018
Bat biologists look to collaborate with climbers – Sopris Sun, Will Grandbois, May 2018
When Rock Climbing and Science Meet – REI Co-op Journal by Zoë Rom.
Colorado rock climbers help track down bats to save them from devastating disease spreading across country – Denver Post by Jason Blevins
Colorado climbers unlikely comrades in search of threatened bats – Colorado Springs Gazette by Seth Boster
Rock climbers help monitor bats and white-nose syndrome – The Wildlife Society by Dana Koblinsky
Scientists enlist rock climbers in bid to identify white-nose syndrome in state bat colonies – Colorado Parks and Wildlife by Bill Vogrin
Peer-reviewed publications
Gross, E. E., M. E. Siebka, R. A. Schorr, J. N. Solomon, and S. K. Davis. 2023. Climbers for Bat Conservation: creating a citizen science program in Red River Gorge, Kentucky. Frontiers in Communication https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2023.1195796
Schorr, R. A., M. D. Matthews, and B. A. Hoover. 2022. Finding bat roosts along cliffs: using rock climbing surveys to identify roosting habitat of bats. Acta Chiropterologica 24:167-176.
Schorr, R., K. Goodwin, E. Murdock, D. Neubaum, and Z. Warren. 2021. Best practices for developing climbing worldwide: climbers and bat conservation. Global Climbing Best Practices
Davis, S. K., R. Schorr, and B. Kuhn. 2017. Climbers for Bat Conservation: methods in forming a novel partnership. Pp. 81-94 in (C. Ward, ed) Wildlife: Perceptions, Threats, and Conservation. Nova Science Publishers, Hauppauge, NY.
Presentations/Posters
Climbers for Bat Conservation: An Innovative Partnership in Citizen Science. Shawn Davis at North American Association of Environmental Education Conference, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, November 2024 (NAAEE Conference)
Cliffside Collaboration: Effectively Engaging Rock Climbers for Increased Data on Cliff Dwelling Species. Emily Gross at 1st Cliff Ecology Conference, Yosemite National Park, California, September 2024 (Cliff Ecology Conference)
Climbers for Bat Conservation: Rock Climber’s Willingness to Participate in Citizen Science. Shawn Davis at 1st Cliff Ecology Conference, Yosemite National Park, California, September 2024
What rock climbers are teaching us about cliff roosting bat ecology. Rob Schorr at 1st Cliff Ecology Conference, Yosemite National Park, California, September 2024 (Cliff Ecology Conference)
Climbers for Bat Conservation: Creating a Citizen Science Program in Red River Gorge Kentucky. Shawn Davis at 1st Cliff Ecology Conference, Yosemite National Park, California, September 2024 (Cliff Ecology Conference)
Climbers for Bat Conservation: citizen science to understand bat roosting ecology. Western Section of The Wildlife Society, Santa Rosa, California, February 2024 (Western TWS 2024)
Climbers for Bat Conservation: Citizen Science for Understanding Bat Use of Cracks and Crevices. Rob Schorr at Western Bat Working Group Meeting, Fort Collins, Colorado. April 2017.
Climbers for Bat Conservation: Citizen Science for Understanding Bat Use of Cracks and Crevices. Rob Schorr at Northeast Bat Working Group Meeting, Amherst, Massachusetts. January 2017.
Climbers for Bat Conservation: Engaging Rock Climbers through Citizen Science. Bernadette Kuhn at International Rock Climbing Research Conference, Telluride, Colorado. July 2016.
Climbers for Bat Conservation: A Novel Partnership. Shawn Davis, Pathways Kenya: Integrating Human Dimensions into Fisheries and Wildlife Conference, Nanyuki, Kenya, January 2016.
Climbers for Bat Conservation: Citizen Science for Understanding Bat Use of Cracks and Crevices. Rob Schorr at Symposium of the North American Society for Bat Research, Monterey, California. October 2015.