Megan Higgs, PI, USA

Megan Higgs is a statistician who loves to combine her statistical expertise with her background in biology and her knowledge gained from years of collaborating with environmental and ecological scientists. She served as the 2016 chair of the Section on Statistics and the Environment (ENVR) of the American Statistical Association (ASA), has been an Associate Professor of Statistics, a statistical consultant for environmental decision making, and is involved with the Statistical Consulting and Research Services at Montana State University. She believes in the importance of considering the philosophical and general practice issues involved in using statistical inference to inform science, management, and policy. ering the philosophical and general practice issues involved in using statistical inference to inform science, management, and policy.