Wallace P. Erickson is a statistician/project manager with WEST since 1991. He has over 14 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 fifteen wind energy projects in seven states (California, Minnesota, Montana, Oregon, Washington, West Virginia, Wyoming). 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 20 papers/posters at national/regional meetings. His is lead author on the paper "Avian collisions with wind turbines: A summary of existing studies and comparisons to other sources of avian collision mortality in the United States". Some of the Wind power clients he has worked with include Cannon, California Energy Commission, CH2MHILL, Cielo, Distributed Generation Systems, Energy Northwest, EnXco, FPL Energy, Klickitat County, Northwestern Windpower, NREL, Pacific Winds, Zilkha Renewable Energy. He also has managed numerous projects with the USFWS, USFS, and USGS BRD, especially in Alaska.
His duties with WEST Inc. involve using current state-of-the-art statistical principles in designing ecological studies and analyzing subsequent data. He has had extensive experience with most statistical computer packages, including SAS, SPLUS, SYSTAT, and SPSS, and in most relational database applications (e.g., ACCESS, DBASE). He also has experience in Geographical information Systems, including ARCVIEW. He has taught workshops on the following topics: 1) Statistics for Spatial Correlated GIS Data, 2) Resource Selection, 3) Computer Intensive Statistics, and 4) Basic Statistics for Biologists and Field Ecologists.
He is currently working on a Ph.D. in Statistics at the University of Wyoming. The topic of his dissertation in on methods for estimating wildlife fatality rates in field study situations. He is the father of four daughters, and enjoys hiking, hunting, birding, and other outdoor activities.
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