Trent McDonald is a statistician and project manager with Western EcoSystems Technology, Inc.
(WEST, Inc.) and adjunct statistics professor at the University of Wyoming. He holds a B.S.
in Statistics and Computer Science from the University of Wyoming (1988), a M.S. in
Statistics from New Mexico State University (1990), and a Ph.D. in Statistics from Oregon
State University (1996).
Dr. McDonald specializes in application of capture-recapture analyses, habitat selection
analyses, linear models, computer intensive statistical models, and finite population surveys.
In applications, he has experience detecting bowhead whale displacement around anthropogenic
sound sources, modeling population growth and demographic parameters of Northern spotted owls
and polar bears, analyzing aerial surveys for Eastern grey whales, modeling habitat needs of
moose, grizzly bears, polar bears, and bighorn sheep. Dr. McDonald has published a number of
articles on capture-recapture and habitat selection methods, including co-editing a book on
capture-recapture methods and co-authored a book on habitat-selection. Computer intensive
statistical methods, such as bootstrap and permutation methods, as well as their application
to dependent data, are a key component of all of Dr. McDonald’s work. Workshop instruction
experience includes week-long workshops on capture-recapture methods, 1-week and 1-day
workshops on habitat selection, and several 1-week workshops on computer intensive statistics.
He has worked for private and public clients including the National Park Service, U. S.
Geological Survey, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, BP, Exxon, Green Diamond Resources, and
others. His endangered species experience includes projects involving Northern spotted owls,
bowhead whales, eastern grey whales, polar bears, grizzly bears, tailed frogs, hell-benders, and many others.
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