Outreach
We actively communicate our science, and believe that it is important to make science and technology understandable and accessible. Our lab is often buzzing with the excitement of scientific discovery because we work at the intersection of emerging genetic technologies, fascinating mammals, and urgent conservation questions. We enjoy communicating this excitement and translating our results to the public and to STEM students.
Watch our team's Savannah Marriott deliver a lecture to the Natural History Institute in July 2024. Empowering Bat Conservation: Harnessing Environmental DNA for Ecological Insight.
Recent Media
Earth Note, KNAU, 2025. The Species from Feces Lab
News Release, 2025: Mexican long-nosed bats discovered in Arizona: a milestone for conservation
NAU News, 2023. Using airborne DNA to track the planet's most ubiquitous mammal
Axios Phoenix, 2023. How an Arizona professor is protecting "tequila bats"
The NAU Review, 2023. Vampires, bats and vampire bats
NAU News, 2019. NAU researchers receive grants to study threatened, endangered species in American Southwest
NAU News, 2019. New research from NAU team expands the answers we can get from bat guano
NAU News, 2018. Hyenas, hippos and lions joined NAU's inaugural study abroad class to Zambia
Mother Jones. 2018. Scientists are learning exciting new things
NRDC's onEarth, 2016, Head's Up, Endangered Species: Scientists are Spying on You
NAU News, 2016, NAU researchers make their mark with new DNA testing tool
KNAU's Brain Food features Ancient DNA Lab, 2016
Walker research team helps discover a new bat in MN, 2016
The Wildlife Professional magazine of The Wildlife Society, Guano provides genetic material to identify bat species, Fall 2015
KNAU Earthnotes, 2015, All the poop on rarely seen animals.
NAU News, 2014, Unique guano innovation gives straight poop on species populations.