Megan fell in love with data management and analysis during an M.S. in Applied Ecology and Conservation Biology from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. As VCE’s data manager, Megan handles data cleaning, storage, and reporting pipelines so researchers can spend more time on what matters and less time wrangling spreadsheets and code.
Megan earned a B.S. in Biology from the College of William & Mary, where she was bit by the birding bug. This interest led to several years as a traveling field technician on projects monitoring nesting Red-headed, Acorn, and Red-cockaded Woodpeckers; performing behavioral experiments on Red-backed Fairywrens in Australia; tracking Rusty Blackbirds in suburban backyards; and educating visitors at the Cape May hawk watch. Outside of work at VCE, Megan is an author on the second Virginia Breeding Bird Atlas and an accomplished artist, and can usually be found birding, geocaching, or looking for jumping spiders.
