Donald Solick is a wildlife biologist with over 13 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 is primarily involved with coordination, field work, data analysis, report-writing, and support for bat surveys. His background in bat research is extensive, and includes acoustic monitoring surveys (using Anabat, Pettersson, and Binary detectors) to determine bat activity at proposed wind energy facilities, radio-telemetry studies to determine roosting, foraging, and thermoregulatory behavior, mist-netting and harp-trapping surveys to determine presence/absence of species (including threatened and endangered species), radar and night-vision surveys to monitor bat migration and 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 cat, and enjoys soccer, travel, Halloween prop-making, and bird-watching.
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