UCSC RESEARCHER ON NPR 08-06-10 08:00 a.v.
An environmental studies researcher at U.C. Santa Cruz is slated to appear on National Public Radio today. Winifred Frick, a UCSC graduate, who is now a post-doctoral researcher, is conducting a new study which predicts a regional extinction of the common little brown myotis bat, in the Northeastern United States, is due to a newly discovered infectious fungus that causes hibernating bats to awaken early, lose fat reserves and die. Frick is set to be interviewed on a local NPR station at noon today during the program “Science Friday”.