This project contains data and code used to analyze the behavior of the collision risk model used by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to predict the number of Bald and Golden eagles that will be killed at proposed wind energy facilities. These predicted fatalities determine the amount of off-site mitigation required to obtain a permit exempting the developer from legal enforcement for killing these protected species. The analyses quantify the interactions between pre-construction eagle surveys, inherent eagle activity, wind facility size, predicted fatalities, and costs.
As the previous Senior Conservation Data Scientist in the Center for Conservation Innovation at Defenders, Mike led geoinformatics and data science projects to inform and improve conservation.