AmStat Section News,
May 2008

Devin S. Johnson, Publications Chair

Join ENVR at JSM!

Our annual open Business Meeting/Mixer will be held on Monday, August 4 at 6:00pm.  Please join us, catch up with old friends, and meet some new faces!  Food and drinks will be provided along with some surprises!

Don’t forget that JSM 2009 is closer than you think, so, begin thinking of topics for ENVR invited sessions!

ENAR 2009

There is a Call for invited session proposals for the ENAR 2009 Spring Meeting to be held March 15-18, 2009 in San Antonio, Texas.  Please send your session topic, a list of potential speakers, and your contact information to Lance Waller (lwaller@sph.emory.edu) by June 13, 2008.

Conference of Interest for ENVR Members: TIES 2008

19th Annual Conference of The International Environmetrics Society, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, June 8-13, 2008.

Invited sessions include: Fire spread modelling; Pollution source apportionment; Modelling mountain pine beetle spread; Marine ecology; Spatio-temporal models for air quality and epidemiology; Spatial-temporal analysis of environmental health data; Monitoring, modelling and managing environmental systems; Ecological Sampling; Communicating risk and uncertainty; Landscape level risk; Spatial modelling; Change-point methods for environmental series; Changes in environmental data; Applications of computer models; Modelling of covariates in environmental studies; Ecological modelling; Fisheries monitoring issues; Sustainability and point processes; Recent developments in forest sampling.  

President’s Invited Lecture, The role of statisticians in international science policy, Peter Guttorp, and
J. Stuart Hunter Lecture, Change point analysis of extreme values, Jef Teugels. 

A one-day course on Modelling Environmental Extremes will be given Sunday June 8. There is also a Best Student Paper Competition and Best Poster Award.
 
Conference Co-Chairs: David Brillinger University of California Berkeley and Sylvia Esterby, University of British Columbia Okanagan                                  
Contact and information: TIES2008@ubc.ca and  http://people.ok.ubc.ca/zhrdlick/ties08/intro.htm