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. […]
Congratulations Travis Brown!
Congratulations to Travis on earning his Certified Wildlife Biologist designation through The Wildlife Society! This achievement is a testament to his dedication, expertise, and passion for wildlife conservation. Travis’s hard work, deep knowledge of wildlife biology, and commitment to advancing the field have truly paid off with this well-deserved recognition. We are proud to have […]
National Suicide Prevention Month
Over the years and through our growth, suicide has touched WEST and our employees. Science-based estimates found a single suicide affects 30 to 135 people in some manner. Awareness of significant community and national issues is essential to managing WEST socially. At WEST we work hard to provide awareness and resources for how our business […]
Celebrating Kristen Klaphake
My time at WEST has been filled with memorable experiences and significant personal growth. One of my favorite memories at WEST revolves around the camaraderie and teamwork that characterized our small office in Laramie, Wyoming. Working closely with colleagues like Grant Gardner, whose desk was just a few feet away from mine, fostered a strong […]
Celebrating Carmen Boyd
In 2013, Carmen began her WEST career at the headquarters in Cheyenne, Wyoming. She started in the Project Tracking and Data Team which supported WEST’s research on the interactions of wind energy and wildlife populations. Carmen is proud of her time managing the Team and she appreciated the Team’s cohesiveness, dedication, reliability and efficiency that […]
Celebrating Shay Howlin
Twenty-five years ago, Shay joined WEST as a statistician at the same time we opened the second ever brick-and-mortar office in Laramie, Wyoming. Joining the WEST team of four statisticians and six biologists was the perfect fit, combining her two chosen disciplines of statistics and wildlife ecology. Today WEST employs more than 40 statisticians, analysts […]
Welcoming Melinda Conners
WEST is thrilled to welcome Melinda Connors, Ph.D. to our team as a Senior Biologist! Melinda will support WEST’s offshore wind team and works remotely from Morro Bay, on the central California coast. She is a marine ecologist with more than 15 years of experience on offshore research projects. Her research focuses mainly on issues […]