AmStat Section News,
November 2006

Jennifer Hoeting, Publications Chair

2007 ENVIRONMENTAL STATISTICS STUDENT PAPER AWARD

The Section on Statistics in the Environment (ENVR) of the ASA is sponsoring a student paper competition on the topic of Environmental Statistics. We encourage students to submit papers on their research in this area. The paper may consist of novel approaches to the analysis of environmental data, new methodology with a clear application to an environmental statistical issue, or application of statistics to environmental problems. The selected winner will present his/her paper in a contributed session at the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in August 2007. The winner will receive a $1,000 stipend towards reimbursing the expenses for attending the JSM.

Eligibility: Anyone who is a student in the Fall of 2006 (undergraduate, Masters, and Ph.D.) is eligible to participate.

Application materials: The applicant must be the first author of the paper. In addition, a letter must be submitted that verifies the applicant's student status from a faculty member familiar with the student's work and, in the case of joint authorship, indicates what fraction of the contribution is attributable to the applicant. The applicant must also submit an abstract by February 1 to ASA and request a presentation in an ENVR session. Applicants must follow all rules required for paper submission and attendance at the JSM.

Required paper format: The paper must be entirely double-spaced (abstract, main body, references, footnotes and appendices), using at least 11 point type with at least 1 inch margins all around and no longer than 26 pages (inclusive). Materials must be submitted electronically only in Postscript or PDF format. All materials must be in English.

Deadline: January 5, 2007 at 5:00 PM EST. Submit materials to the email address below.

Review Process: Papers will be reviewed by the Student Paper Competition Award committee of the Section on Statistics in the Environment. Selection will be based on a variety of criteria at the discretion of the selection committee, and will include innovation and significance of contribution, amongst others. Award(s) will be announced early in 2007. The decision of the selection committee will be final. This award will recognize an environmental statistics contribution with a certificate and recognition at the ASA ENVR section meeting at the JSM.

Inquiries and application materials should be e-mailed to:
Jenise L. Swall, Ph.D.
Atmospheric Sciences Modeling Division, NOAA
Swall.Jenise@epamail.epa.gov

 

Upcoming conferences of interest to ENVR members

Winter Workshop on Environmental and Environmental Health Statistics

Gainesville, FL, January 12-13, 2007

The Department of Statistics at the University of Florida will host its Ninth Annual Winter Workshop and this year’s theme is Environmental Statistics. The workshop is dedicated to exploring emerging statistical methods for analyzing and interpreting data related to pressing environmental problems. There will be twelve invited talks by leading statistical researchers.  Tentative topics include areas such as extreme value theory as applied to hurricane winds; point process modeling of fire outbreaks; spatial modeling of environmental health data; causal inference in studies of disease risk; and, using dirichlet processes to model precipitation.  Pending successful funding, a limited number of young researchers will be awarded travel support.   For additional information and registration visit www.stat.ufl.edu, or contact Mary Christman, Dept. Statistics, University of Florida, PO Box 110339, Gainesville, FL 32611-0339; email: mcxman@ufl.edu.

TIES Conference:  North American Regional Meeting

Seattle, WA, June 17-21, 2007.

The International Environmetrics Society (TIES) will arrange a North American Regional Meeting at the University of Washington in Seattle June 19-21, 2007. The meeting will emphasize climate change and its environmental effects: monitoring, measuring, and predicting. The meeting is co-sponsored by the ENVR section.

The organizing committee consists of Peter Guttorp, University of Washington; Ashley Steel, NOAA Seattle; Emily Silverman, University of Michigan; Joel Reynolds, USFWS Alaska; Eliane Rodrigues, UNAM, Mexico City and Jim Zidek, University of British Columbia. Keynote speakers are Paul Switzer, Stanford University, and David Brillinger, University of California at Berkeley.

Program and registration information will be available on the meeting web site at http://www.stat.washington.edu/peter/TIES%20NA07.html