Saif Nomani is a statistician for WEST. He joined the staff in the Cheyenne office in 2008. Saif received his B.S. in Computer Science in 2002 from Rutgers University; and received his M.S. in Wildlife Ecology in 2007 from the University of Florida.
Saif's research interests include population ecology, abundance estimation, occupancy modeling, mark-recapture analysis, and statistical analysis of wildlife data. He is currently working on statistical and ecological analyses and quality control on bird and bat survey data to determine effect of wind power turbines on bird and bat use and mortality. He has conducted analyses to investigate the effect of varying levels of hunting pressure on cause specific-mortality rates and survival rates of northern bobwhite, and the influence of supplementary feeding on survival rates of small mammals based on capture-mark-recapture data. He has also analyzed and modeled data from field studies to compare the cost and efficacy of four different methods for gopher tortoise abundance estimation and used burrow cameras and a patch occupancy modeling approach to determine probability of burrow occupancy.
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