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Bio on director Kim WilliamsSelected books written by directors
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Rob Mies and Kim Williams started working with bats in 1990 during their biology graduate work at Eastern Michigan University Here they studied the endangered Indiana bat in the swamps of Michigan.
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Rob and Kim are authors of many scientific papers, along with many books, including "Understanding Bats" (1996), and are the producers of OBC's award-winning video "Bats: The True Story" (1998).
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Kim and Rob have been featured in numerous television documentaries including Paramount pictures "Wild Things" (1997) and Germany's "Nature Adventure" (2002).
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Kim receives the Michigan United Conservation Club's Conservationist of the Year Award
Kim and Rob on The Today Show
Bio on Director Kim Williams
Kim Williams is the Executive Director at the Organization for Bat Conservation.She has a Bachelors of Science degree in Zoology from Michigan State University and a Master's Degree in Biology from Eastern Michigan University.Her thesis focused on roosting preferences of the federally endangered Indiana bat.You can find her publications on the Indiana bat in many journals throughout the United States.Kim is working on her Ph.D. in educational psychology with an emphasis on Nature Deficit Disorder.
Kim has been on such nationally syndicated shows as "Wild Things", Nickelodeon's "Figure It Out", Germany's "Nature Adventure" and National Geographic's "Explorer".Kim is also a frequent guest on the "Today Show."Most recently she was featured on the special features section of the new "Stellaluna" DVD!
Kim is the author of various books, including the first field guide to bats called "Stokes Beginners Guide to Bat Identification," along with "Understanding Bats", "Bat Basics", "Insect Eating Bats", "Fruit Bats", "Vampire Bats", "Nectar-feeding Bats", "Bats and Conservation", and "Michigan Bats and Their Habitats", and articles in various scientific journals.Kim has traveled throughout the United States and the world helping bats.One project Kim and OBC have worked on is saving the Spectacled Flying Foxes in Australia (see a movie on this rescue).These bats have been affected with a tick paralysis and during the months of October through January become very ill (Spectacled Flying Fox rescue).
Kim is also a frequent guest on the Today Show and has consulted for National Geographic, Nickelodeon, and The Discovery Channel.
Kim is an advisor and member of the American Zoological Association Bat Taxon Advisory Group, Northeast Bat Working Group, and the Michigan Bat Working Group.
To contact Kim you can email her at obcbats@aol.com, attention Kim Williams, or call at 248-645-3232 ext. 9 (work) or 517-881-0381 (cell).
Selected books written by Kim Williams and Rob Mies