Michelle Bourassa Stahl has worked part-time for WEST since 1999, though her association with
WEST began in 1992 while working for one of WEST’s original clients. She received her B.S. in
Biology from the University of Vermont, her M.S. in Statistics from the University of Wyoming and
most of her field experience in Alaska between the two. Michelle’s experience with numerous
federal and state agencies on a wide variety of fisheries, wildlife, and vegetation studies gives her
an excellent understanding of the field environment, the practical and technical issues associated
with implementing research protocols in the field, and the implications for resulting data analyses.
As a biometrician with WEST, Michelle has primarily been involved with data management and
the preparation of data for analysis, designing and managing our original wind power databases.
A self described anal retentive, Michelle excels at quality control and the cleanup and
management of messy data. Michelle more recently has been conducting data analyses for
project managers. These include bootstrap resampling, survival analyses, linear modeling, and
distance sampling in addition to more basic statistical analyses. Michelle has training in sampling
and experimental design in addition to multivariate, time series, analysis of variance, regression,
and categorical data analyses. Michelle has experience in simulation and computing using
Fortran, Pascal, C, SAS, S-Plus, Arcview, Microsoft Access and Paradox.
Michelle lives in Laramie with her husband Peter, daughter Maya, and dog Dakota. She spends
her free time mothering, skiing, mountain biking, gardening, backpacking and fishing.
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