In this episode, Chloe posits that the bats might be attracted to technology. As an example, she mentions the incident in Antarctica, during which bats blocked the sunlight from solar panels powering a research station. At this point in the show, however, not only had she not been told of that incident, but nobody in her team (at least on camera) had been informed of it either.
At 14:30 they are in Louisiana but the boat they are in has an Alabama tag on it.