American Statistical Association (ASA)
Section on Statistics and the Environment (ENVR)

The ASA Section on Statistics and the Environment (ENVR) is interested in a broad range of statistical issues and activities linked by a common focus on the development and application of statistical methods to environmental research and policy.

Announcements

TIES 2009 North American Regional Meeting: Measuring, Monitoring, and Modeling Environmental Resources
When: June 15-17, 2009
Where: Corvallis, OR, USA

The focus of this conference will be tracking the quality and quantity of environmental resources, particularly forests and fisheries, but talks dealing with other resources are welcome. Because of the significance of these two resources in the Pacific Northwest (PNW), a number of well-developed programs have explored issues of measuring, monitoring, and modeling them, but challenging issues remain in designing monitoring programs, and in analyzing and interpreting monitoring data.The PNW programs have compiled some rich data sets for exploring these issues. The data were collected under a range of designs, from rigorous probability based surveys to specific targeted surveys to convenience surveys. Some of these data sets, with metadata describing the objectives and design of the study, are available at science.oregonstate.edu/~madsenl/TIESNA2009/. Also posted is a list of research questions generated by Oregon's Coho salmon monitoring team. Conference participants are encouraged, but not required, to use these data sets to illustrate or develop methodology to measure environmental characteristics, determine status, describe trend, and model relationships. For further information, contact Don Stevens (541-737-3587), or see the conference website at science.oregonstate.edu/~madsenl/TIESNA2009/.

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