Mevin Hooten is a Professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. He previously held a professorship at Colorado State University and served as Assistant Unit Leader for the Colorado Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit. His research focuses on Bayesian and spatio-temporal statistical methods with applications in ecology, epidemiology, and environmental science. Education: Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Missouri (2006) Research Interests center on Bayesian statistics , spatio-temporal modeling , and MCMC methods , applied to ecological processes, disease spread, and environmental monitoring. His work addresses challenges in wildlife conservation, climate change impacts, and animal movement inference. Publication Trends reveal a strong emphasis on Bayesian hierarchical models , spatial statistics , and mechanistic ecological modeling . Key subfields include genomic adaptation , occupancy models , riverscape processes , phenological sensitivity , invasion dynamics , and multi-scale ecological inference . Scientific Contributions include authorship of 3 books and over 160 publications. Awards include ASA Fellow (2017) and editorial roles in leading journals like Biometrics and Annals of Applied Statistics . Advising Legacy spans current and former students/postdocs in fields such as ecological statistics , animal movement , and spatio-temporal modeling . Notable alumni include researchers at NOAA, USDA, and academic institutions like Virginia Tech and Penn State.
