I am very pleased to say that we managed to submit five applications for the NSF-USAID PEER opportunity at the end of November, with proposals from India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Cambodia and the Philippines.

It was quite challenging as we really needed to be explicit in our synthesis of the SEABCRU’s mission with that of USAID country programs, and much of the application form was very specific (i.e. irritatingly picky). Nonetheless, I think the proposals were all competitive, and would like to applaud the grant authors for their hard work.   We now have to keep our fingers crossed! This is the first year of the program, and it looks likely it will run again next year, and as we will still have 3 years left on the NSF grant we can again put forth 3-year PEER proposals. So this will give us the chance to revise and resubmit if needs be, or to prepare new proposals.

We have had a few publications come out in the last month or so, one looking at social structure and gene flow in co-distributed forest bats in Malaysia, and the other the comparative role of geographic isolation and sensory drive in the bumblebee bat. Please share your publications with us so that we can keep everyone informed, and I would love it if people could also provide a simple one-paragraph summary of the paper that highlights the key findings.

Juliana Senawi from the Forest Bat Student Support Team shares with us an account of some outreach activities in Malaysia, and we would love to hear from more of you about your outreach efforts -- please consider a brief write up (don’t worry if the English isn’t great, we can edit it) and think about sharing materials with the community.

Finally, if you have any news, please do let me know so that I can post it here!

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