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2026 Events

SAVE THE DATE: January 29th, 2026

This program will be offered via Zoom: please check back for further information including time.

Flying Offshore: Bats in the Gulf of Maine & Monhegan Island:

We often think of bats circling around our homes at night or roosting in caves and trees, but bats are also known to fly across the open ocean to migrate and forage, and have even been documented out in the Gulf of Maine! In an effort to learn more about the phenomenon, the Gulf of Maine Bat Research Program (GoMBat), a partnership of fishermen, academic institutions, NGOs, and state and federal agencies are using acoustic monitoring, to investigate bat activity and occurrence in the Gulf of Maine. Bat Specialist Ethan Gilardi (BRI) joins the Ecology Lecture Series for a talk that details the lives of bats in Maine, the work BRI is doing as a part of GoMBat, and what they’ve found here on Monhegan Island.

Ethan Gilardi, Wildlife Biologist and Bat Specialist: Biodiversity Research Institute

Ethan Gilardi is a bat acoustics expert and field lead for BRI’s Mammal Program. He began working with bats over a decade ago with Rutgers University and NJDFW’s Endangered and Nongame Species Program. Since joining BRI in 2022, Ethan has taken part in numerous projects across North and South America, from collecting biological samples in Belize and Colombia as a part of BRI’s Global Mercury Monitoring Program to developing offshore bat acoustic recording methods for the Gulf of Maine Bat Research Program (GoMBat).