On September 20, 2009, I saw a tweet from @tinker_it searching for iPhone developers for a "small project next month". I had no idea when I responded to that tweet that my response would begin a long-term collaboration with an international team of scientists and developers to create an iPhone app called iBats.

But today, after more than one year and nine months of on-and-off work, the iBats iPhone app is available in the App Store. The app went live in the App Store on June 22, 2010 and was followed by a good amount of news coverage, including:

On a Dark Knight… The batphone app that lets you capture creatures’ ultrasonic calls The Daily Mail
A smart way to save wildlife BBC Nature
Batphone app turns you into Batman TechRadar
Holy Batphone! New app identifies bats by sound California Watch
Scientists create ‘batphone’ app MSN Tech & Gadgets
Batphone App Will Record Ultrasonic Bat Sounds Discovery News

It will be exciting to see what’s ahead for iBats, and I look forward to continuing to help shape this application and help citizen scientists around the world.