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Ecology - Behavior | Organismal Biology - Animal Behavior | Organismal Biology - Bioacoustics

Wm. Mitchell Masters

Associate Professor

1110c 1315 Kinnear Rd (Museum of Biodiversity)

1315 Kinnear Rd. Columbus, OH 43212

Phone: 614-292-4602

Fax: 614-292-7774

E-mail: masters.2@osu.edu

Education: B.A., Pomona College, Claremont CA, 1970 Ph.D., Cornell University, Ithaca NY, 1979

Brief Description of Research Interests

Behavioral Ecology

Detailed Research Interests

Bat Echolocation Animal sounds and vibration

Key Citations

Masters, W.M., Raver, K.A.S., Kornacker, K., Burnett, S.C. (1997) Detection of jitter in intertarget spacing by the big brown bat Eptesicus fuscus. J. of Comparative Physiology A 181:279-290

Masters, W.M., Raver, K.A.S. (2000) Range discrimination by big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) using altered model echoes: Implications for signal processing. J. of the Acoustical Society of America 107:625-637

Masters, W.M., Raver, K.A.S. (2004) Bats can learn to use echoes having unfamiliar time-frequency structure. In: Echolocation in Bats and Dolphins, J.A. Thomas, C.F. Moss, M. Vater (eds). Univ. of Chicago Press., pp 273-277

Masters, W.M., Jacobs, S.C. (1989) Target detection and range resolution by the big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus) using normal and time-reversed model echoes. J. of Comparative Physiology A 166:65-73

Kazial, K.A., Burnett, S.C., Masters, W.M. (2001) Individual and group variation in echolocation calls of big brown bats, Eptesicus fuscus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). J. of Mammalogy 82:339-351

Courses

EEOB 410 - Form and Function EEOB H410 - Honors Form and Function EEOB 632 - Neuroethology

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