Chloe Wardropper and Fatima Patel
assembling the shell of the first air-conditioned lab.

SPECIAL SKILLS

We always need enthusiastic volunteers who would enjoy (amongst other things!):

• Gardening, permaculture, and horticulture.
• Building and heavy work - laying pipes, Station upgrading, etc.
• Electronics - those with skills in RF, digital, analogue - to work on bat repellents and radio-tracking systems.
• Electricians.
• Plumbers - and any other skilled trades people.
• A live-in general handy-person.
• Experienced artists, illustrators, sculptors, cabinet makers and carpenters.
• Fund raisers.
• Educators, community workers, and teachers.
• "Resting" writers or journalists.
• Scientific education program officer to act as a consultant to develop and co-ordinate new scientific projects for both international researchers and local student projects.
• Cooks and chefs (on holiday).
• Experienced lobbyists and activists.
• Animal careers and bat lovers.
• Office administrators and accounting skills.

EQUIPMENT

We can organise tax deductibility for gifts of equipment from Australian donors - US donors - we're working on it. (But, hey, it's for protecting the environment!) (US Donations of money will be tax deductible through the Tides Foundation).

• Donations of laboratory gear (and chemicals)- contact us for more details.
• Ex-"Main Roads" department site offices ("Dongas").
• Building materials - from timber to wire caging, to metal support posts to huts.
• Office supplies.
• Bat food! - Fruit and protein supplements ("Wombarroo").
• Art supplies.
• A new 4WD diesel vehicle! (Or even a second hand one!).
• Photography (especially digital camera equipment) supplies.
• Postcard manufacture.
• Paint.
• Styrene/colour-bond steel sheets (3-4") in good condition - for a new a/c lab.

SOLAR/ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGY
Manufacturers - here's where we can help you!

As we live in one of the most demanding environments for technological equipment that one might imagine (fungus, insects, humidity mostly in the high of 80%) - poorly designed and unprotected equipment lasts a very short time here. We would be delighted to act as a test site for your product - we've already investigated the effects of flying fox splats on roofing paint (Don't laugh - people in coastal Queensland will leave their cars under mango trees and complain about the big areas of lifted paint - and of course hate the flying foxes for it). We have a well-equipped electronics laboratory here, so we can monitor most things.

OTHER STUFF

Textbooks - reasonably recent texts in biology, population biology, ecology, general zoology, and the like.

Back issues of journals (or even an (individual) subscription)- specifically:

• Conservation Biology
• Australian Zoologist
• Wildlife Research
• Appropriate TRENDS

Access to Current Contents Data Base (really, we won't use much of it).

We also would appreciate donations of:

• Brand Digital Power Meter (240V model 21-1850 CI) info@brandelectronics.com
• Solar Pathfinder pathfinder@dmea.net
• Fire, Wind & Rain MPP 1500 watt MPPT controller for 24V www.firewindandrain.com
• Large Sunfrost fridge (okay, we're dreaming)
• A small ex-services Stirling gen set...remember those??

The BAT HOUSE Environmental Center, right on the road at Cape Tribulation, gets over 10,000 visitors a year - (the Daintree area gets over 400,000!) so anything at the Bat House or Research Station has the potential to be seen by these visitors (but the place is useless for wind or hydro).

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