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Joy O'Keefe joined the faculty at the University of Illinois in 2020 after serving as an Assistant Professor at Indiana State University from 2011 to 2020. During this time, she directed the Center for Bat Research, Outreach, and Conservation. Her research primarily focuses on facilitating the coexistence of bats and humans in human-altered landscapes by understanding roosting and foraging ecology, identifying practices for studying bat ecology, and assessing mitigation practices designed to help bats. Joy collaborates with various organizations, private landowners, and agencies such as the USDA Forest Service and the National Park Service. Her passion for wildlife conservation was ignited during her youth, leading her to pursue a career in wildlife biology after initially aiming to be a veterinarian. She has accumulated extensive experience cataloguing animal behaviors and conducting surveys of endangered bats. Joy's doctoral research revolved around the ecology of forest-dwelling bats, which inspired her continued focus on understanding and conserving these unique mammals.
University of Illinois • Urbana, IL
Focus on facilitating coexistence of bats and humans in human-altered landscapes.
Indiana State University • Terre Haute, IN
Director of the Center for Bat Research, Outreach, and Conservation.
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