A scientist at U.C. Santa Cruz is working to study the behavior of bats by using mobile storm-chasing radars. Bat professor and post doctoral researcher in environmental studies at U.C. Santa Cruz, Winifred Frick, has joined with meteorologists at the University of Oklahoma to follow swarms of bats each night by using weather data collected with radars to study bat populations. The bats allegedly appear as “blooms” of radar reflectivity, and are able to provide scientists with clues to their daily behavior.
