Western EcoSystems Technology, Inc. (WEST)

Western EcoSystems Technology (WEST) provides environmental and statistical consulting services and contract research internationally for industry, government, and private organizations. We offer clients a unique combination of field ecology and statistics to help solve ongoing and contemporary natural resource problems. 

Using state-of-the-art statistical principles in the design, management, and analysis of ecological field studies, WEST specializes in common sense, professional, and scientifically defensible approaches to natural resource problems facing government and industry. WEST’s core of experienced ecologists and biometricians are experts in conducting relevant ecological studies and analyzing complicated natural resource data. 

WEST has a record of developing new survey and analytical techniques for avian and bat studies and environmental compliance for renewable energy facilities. Our scientists conducted many of the earliest studies and authored many of the ground-breaking and influential papers in the field of wildlife and renewable energy. Thus, WEST helped shape the foundation of modern wind-wildlife monitoring and scientific standards for the renewable energy industry. WEST’s scientists continue to be at the forefront of innovation in this field, actively exploring and developing improved survey and analytical methods to improve the scientific rigor and costeffectiveness of monitoring studies