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Willis Lab in the News

Craig talk with Anna Maria Tremonti on CBC's 'The Current' about the discovery of WNS in Washington State

Kaleigh speaks with the CBC about the Heated Bat Box project to test the potential benefits of summer habitat protection and enhancement as a way to help bats recover from WNS.

Craig interviewed for
Globe and Mail article about discovery of WNS in Washington State

ShawTV Go
visits the lab to hear about our work from Craig.

The lab wakes up bright and early to talk bat facts with Wheeler in the Morning.

​​A selection of media reports about the Neighbourhood Bat Watch:

    - Winnipeg Free Press "Bat fans to the rescue"
    - CBC web feature and 5 minute radio documentary "White-Nose Syndrome: the fight to save bats heats up"
    - NYC Today "Citizen Science helps keep tabs on deadly fungus killing American bats"
    - Ottawa Citizen “Bat watchers wanted as scientists track spread of deadly fungus”  
    - TVOntario “Bats are in big trouble and it could affect Ontario’s food supply”
    - London Free Press "Ontarians asked to report on bat colonies"

Craig talks to 'Superior Morning' on CBC Thunder Bay, 11 November 2014. Listen here and read here.

Nothing spooky about Winnipeg bat lab. CBC Manitoba features the bat lab for Halloween 2014.


Mary-Anne Collis is featured in the December 2013 issue of the Gradzette.

Craig talks to CBC's Bob MacDonald on Quirks and Quarks about Warnecke et al. (2013)

Some of the media reports about the publication of Luis et al. (2013)
    - Live Science
    - Community Radio for Northern Colorado (NPR)
    - Science News
    - Angela Luis talks to Jon Stewart on BBC Science in Action 

Lisa Warnecke and Jamie Turner speak with CTV National News about WNS
    - CTV National News (scroll to "Part 2, 2:39")

Some of the media reports about the publication of Warnecke et al. (2012)
    - Craig talks to Bob MacDonald on CBC Radio's Quirks and Quarks, 14 April 2012
    - Craig talks to BBC World News 12 April 2012 (scroll to minute 19:30)
    - Jamie Turner and David Blehert speak with New York Public Radio
    - The Guardian (UK)
    - The Toronto Star


Winnipeg Free Press. March 14 2012
    - Feds asked to declare three bat species endangered

Winnipeg Free Press. February 11 2012 
    - Baffled biologists scramble to unlock secrets of disease killing millions of hibernating bats

Associated Press interview with Craig on hypotheses to explain the origin of white-nose syndrome in North America
    - Wall Street Journal
    - SeattlePI

CBC Television, “The National” with Peter Mansbridge. Originally aired June 2011, re-broadcast August 2011
    - Brown bats in trouble

CBC Radio, “The Current” with Anna Maria Tremonti. January 18, 2011.    
    - White-nose syndrome killing bats

Canadian Wildlife Magazine, May 2011 issue.
    - Is this goodnight for bats?  

Science News Magazine, September 2011 issue.
    - Helping bats hold on


The Scientist Magazine, August 2010 issue.
     - Bats at risk of extinction
 
Some of the media reports about the publication of Boyles and Willis (2010)
    - National Geographic 
    - Scientific American 
    - Science Friday (NPR)
    - L.A. Times 
    - USA Today
    - Montreal Gazette
    - CBC News 


Dr. Craig K. R. Willis
Professor of Biology, University of Winnipeg
Phone: (204) 786-9433
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