MƒA teachers can register for this event on the Small-World Network. Other guests can register here.
Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium
160 Fifth Avenue, 2nd Floor
The MƒA Thursday Think Speaker Series brings accomplished speakers who dive into cutting-edge topics in STEM education to MƒA. These talks, held once a month throughout the school year, invite MƒA teachers and the general public to learn and engage with these thought leaders and professionals in mathematics, science, and education.
With ~1,500 species, bats are one of the most diverse mammalian groups on the planet! Found on every continent except Antarctica, their habitats span nearly every ecosystem from islands to forests to urban environments. But bat populations, like most other species, are on the decline.
In this talk, Dr. Angelo Soto-Centeno explores the drivers of species loss (and survival) through the lens of bats, including habitat fragmentation, climate change, and human impact.
With a special focus on bats from the Caribbean and NYC, he zooms into the factors, both natural and anthropogenic, that contribute to bat diversity and provides insights into the mechanisms that shape species resilience.
Dr. Angelo Soto-Centeno is an Assistant Curator in the Department of Mammalogy at the American Museum of Natural History. His research primarily lies at the interface of extinction and speciation of Caribbean bats, combining ecological, genomic, and paleontological data to understand present-day patterns of biodiversity. More broadly, his research group studies phylogenomics and phylogeography of bats from insular to continental systems and the environmental factors that shape bat distributions.
Angelo earned his B.Sc. from the Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Florida. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the North American Society for Bat Research, the Regional Coordinator of the Caribbean and Latin America for the Global South Bats Network, and a member of the Bat Taxonomy Group of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
