Principal Statistician
WEST Inc.
Paul Rabie is a Principal Statistician based in WEST’s Laramie, Wyoming, office. Paul currently works on a variety of wind-wildlife projects, including post-construction monitoring design, and estimating fatality rates, particularly for rare species that may not be detected in carcass searches. Additionally, Paul leads the WEST OSC™ (Optimized Smart Curtailment™) team, producing smart curtailment algorithms for bats, including algorithms that are informed by power production potential, local weather conditions, regional weather conditions.
Paul has worked with industry and government agencies to develop methods to estimate impacts to wildlife populations due to renewable energy facilities (wind and solar energy) and is a co-author on the state-of-the-art GenEst mortality estimator. He led the consultant team that helped produce the International Finance Corporation’s Good Practice Handbook for Post-construction Bird and Bat Fatality Monitoring for Onshore Wind Energy Facilities in Emerging Market Countries. Paul additionally has considerable experience with quantitative ecological modeling, including population dynamics, ecological community analysis, animal resource selection, and network analysis of plant-pollinator communities.
Paul earned his PhD in Botany from Washington State University, with a minor in Applied Statistics. He earned a master’s degree in Ecology from the University of Minnesota and a bachelor’s in Creative Writing from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.
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