Donald Solick is a wildlife biologist with over 15 years experience conducting research on bats and other wildlife throughout North America and Canada. He received his M.S. in Ecology from the University of Calgary, Alberta, and his B.S. in Wildlife Biology and B.A. in Environmental Studies from The Evergreen State College, Washington. Donald joined WEST in 2007 in our Cheyenne office.
With WEST, Donald helps coordinate our bat research program, providing support with field work, data analysis, report-writing, and project management. His background in bat research is extensive, and includes acoustic monitoring surveys (using Anabat and full-spectrum detectors) to determine bat activity at proposed wind energy facilities, radar and night-vision surveys to monitor bat (and bird) migration and behavior, mist-netting and harp-trapping surveys to determine presence/absence of species (including threatened and endangered species), radio-telemetry studies to determine roosting, foraging, and thermoregulatory behavior, and nightly emergence counts of bats at building, mine, and tree roosts.
Donald also has a broad background surveying other wildlife, including experience conducting point counts and nest-searching for birds, live-trapping small mammals, collecting and identifying insects and aquatic macroinvertebrates, call surveys for frogs and toads, monitoring for sea turtles, tree-climbing to assess canopy moss communities, electroshocking for fish, and assessing the health of streams.
Donald lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, with his wife and daughter, and enjoys soccer, travel, bird-watching, and tinkering with gadgets.
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