Mr. Wallace P. Erickson has been the Chief Operating Officer and a Senior Biometrician with WEST since 1991. He has over 20 years of consulting experience related to the design and analysis of environmental and wildlife studies. His primary research interests include habitat selection methodology with applications to GIS and study designs and analysis for detecting impacts from environmental perturbations. He has been lead statistician and/or WEST project manager for baseline studies, environmental permitting, and/or operational monitoring/research at over 50 wind energy projects in 20 states.
He is an author/co-author on over 30 professional journal articles, book chapters or peer reviewed proceedings papers, and is co-author of the 2nd edition of the book "Resource Selection by Animals". He has presented over 30 papers/posters at national/regional meetings. His duties with WEST Inc. involve using current state-of-the-art statistical principles in designing ecological studies and analyzing subsequent data. He has recently helped develop models and approaches for modeling collision risk and other impacts of birds with wind facilities, including marbled murrelets, golden eagles and Indiana bats.
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