Reproducibility of a Geographical Study on the Effects of Wind Turbines on Bat Fatalities in the Northeast United States

In this integrative geography and biology thesis, I study the reproducibility of a geographical analysis to better understand barriers to its reproduction. The study, conducted by consulting group DNV GL for the Wind Wildlife Research Fund, analyzes the relationship between tree-roosting bat fatalities and landscape features at on-shore wind farms in the northeast United States (Peters et al. 2020). By making models and R scripts that reproduce the methods of this study, I improve its future reproducibility while analyzing the ways in which both the bat fatality studies used to provide data for the Peters et al. (2020) study and the study itself could have been reported better for clarity and transparency with regards to methods, data, and sources of uncertainty.