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For a fun side project I've decided to design flags for all the projects I have worked on as a seasonal wildlife technician.

My first field job after graduating with a bachelor's was on a project with my alma mater investigating fall migratory movements of Long-eared bats and other bat species on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. My many duties included setting out microphones across the cape to hopefully record bat sounds, to set up and man large nets at night to catch bats, take measurements and samples from the bats and attach GPS transmitters to them, so that we may track them for up to two weeks, finding and recording all their roost sites and major movements. This translated to spending the daytime hours repairing nets and spending the nighttime hours catching very few bats. Our housing was provided by the Cape Cod National Seashore, in the form of a lighthouse. Or rather, we lived in the shack next to the lighthouse.

Flag Design: The colors red, black, and white, I associated heavily with Cape Cod, probably because the many lighthouses there, including the one at which I lived, are all painted using various combinations of only those colors. My supervisor was originally from England, but moved to Canada, so I used red and white to represent both countries, and placed the red on outer stripes as in the Canadian flag. The black also represents the bats themselves and the night/nocturnal work. The center design is of a bat topped by a lighthouse and two semi-circles. What the bat represents is obvious. The lighthouse represents where I lived, at the Highland lighthouse. The semi-circles represent the bat’s echolocation and thus our acoustic monitoring work, the light emanating from the lighthouse that shone through my window, the sunrise over the Atlantic, and the waves of the sea, but they also form two letter Cs for Cape Cod.

Description
For a fun side project I've decided to design flags for all the projects I have worked on as a seasonal wildlife technician.

My first field job after graduating with a bachelor's was on a project with my alma mater investigating fall migratory movements of Long-eared bats and other bat species on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. My many duties included setting out microphones across the cape to hopefully record bat sounds, to set up and man large nets at night to catch bats, take measurements and samples from the bats and attach GPS transmitters to them, so that we may track them for up to two weeks, finding and recording all their roost sites and major movements. This translated to spending the daytime hours repairing nets and spending the nighttime hours catching very few bats. Our housing was provided by the Cape Cod National Seashore, in the form of a lighthouse. Or rather, we lived in the shack next to the lighthouse.

Flag Design: The colors red, black, and white, I associated heavily with Cape Cod, probably because the many lighthouses there, including the one at which I lived, are all painted using various combinations of only those colors. My supervisor was originally from England, but moved to Canada, so I used red and white to represent both countries, and placed the red on outer stripes as in the Canadian flag. The black also represents the bats themselves and the night/nocturnal work. The center design is of a bat topped by a lighthouse and two semi-circles. What the bat represents is obvious. The lighthouse represents where I lived, at the Highland lighthouse. The semi-circles represent the bat’s echolocation and thus our acoustic monitoring work, the light emanating from the lighthouse that shone through my window, the sunrise over the Atlantic, and the waves of the sea, but they also form two letter Cs for Cape Cod.