Celebrating Clayton Derby!
Join us in celebrating Clayton Derby’s 30-year WEST anniversary! Over the last 30 years, Clayton’s most memorable moments have always involved working with our incredible teammates. From standing on Foote Creek Rim with Jamey Eddy before a wind farm construction, to countless trips with Shay Howlin and Dale Strickland, and working in Cody, Wyoming with […]
Announcing WEST’s New Tagline!
We’re thrilled to introduce our new company tagline: “Innovative Solutions Through Applied Science.” This tagline is more than just words—it represents our dedication to leveraging scientific principles and technical expertise to deliver innovative solutions for our clients. At WEST, our core principles drive every decision we make. This new tagline highlights our commitment to innovation, […]
Celebrating Pam Pease
Pam’s Journey at WEST: How has your role evolved over the past 5 years? ”I started out at the front desk and worked there for about a year. I then moved to P&I and continually changed and grew in this amazing department!” What do you enjoy most about working at WEST? ”The people, hands down! My introduction […]
Celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science
Join us in celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Today, we celebrate the extraordinary contributions of women and girls in science, including the brilliant minds here at WEST. Their relentless pursuit of knowledge and innovation is paving the way for a brighter future. We are committed to fostering an environment where their […]
Congratulations Larisa Bishop-Boros!
Larisa’s Journey with WEST I first worked for WEST in the summers of 2012 and 2014 as a federally permitted bat biologist, conducting presence/probable absence, mist-net, and telemetry surveys for proposed projects in Ohio, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. I briefly did some qualitative call identification out of the Bloomington, Indiana, office but moved to the Laramie, […]
Bat Week | Meet the Experts | Juliet Nagel
I fell in love with bats during a tropical ecology course during my undergraduate degree. While traveling in Costa Rica, we were lucky enough to visit a research center where they were mist-netting bats. I had never seen a bat up close before, and the fruit bats with striped faces, nectar bats with crazy long […]
Bat Week | Meet the Experts | Brenna Hyzy
1) What got you into bats or brought you to WEST? I studied abroad in college when I was 19 and worked on an invasive mongoose project. The professor leading that project was a bat biologist. I was badly bitten by one of the mongoose harem males (which apparently impressed her) and she invited me […]
Bat Week | Meet the Experts | Kaitlyn Torrey
1) What got you into bats or brought you to WEST? I first got interested in bats during undergrad while taking mammalogy and just thought they were the coolest animals, and when I found out about white-nose syndrome impacting bats I knew I had to get into bat conservation somehow. 2) What you love most […]
Bat Week | Meet the Experts | Larisa Bishop-Boros
What got you into bats or brought you to WEST? White-nose syndrome first struck North American bats in 2006 in upstate New York near where I was completing undergraduate research, so I was inspired to apply for National Science Foundation funding to study survey techniques for these aerial acrobats and the rest was history. Also, […]
Bat Week | Meet the Experts | Richard Novy
What got you into bats or brought you to WEST? While I was getting my undergraduate degree, one of my professors bought some bat detectors and didn’t know how to use them. She asked me to figure them out and work with the Wisconsin DNR on their monitoring project as part of a semester project. […]