AmStat Section News,
June 2008

Devin S. Johnson, Publications Chair

ENVR at JSM 2008

ENVR is sponsoring several invited paper and poster sessions at JSM 2008:

• Sunday August 3

Statistical Issues For Biodiversity Assessments
Organizer: Ron McRoberts, U. S. Forest Service
Chair: Estell Russek-Cohen, U. S. Food and Drug Administration

Spatio-temporal Dynamic models
Organizer and Chair: Christopher Wikle, University of Missouri

• Monday August 4

Health/Biological Imprint Of Climate And Atmospherics
Organizer: Montserrat Fuentes, North Carolina State University
Chair: Sudipto Banerjee, University of Minnesota

• Tuesday August 5

Developments In Spatial/Environmental Health Modeling
Organizer and Chair: Ying MacNab, University of British Columbia

• Wednesday August 6

Modeling In Ecology (Invited Poster Session)
Organizer: Mevin Hooten, Utah State University
Chair: John Castelloe, SAS Institute Inc.

The Role Of Statisticians In Understanding Climate Change
Organizer: David Marker, Westat
Chair: Peter Bloomfield, University of North Carolina

• Thursday August 7

Statistical Aspects Of Regional Climate Modeling
Organizer and Chair: Richard Smith, University of North Carolina

Details for these and other ENVR sponsored sessions can be found at: http://www.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2008/onlineprogram/

Don’t forget…
The ENVR mixer/business meeting at JSM 2008 is tentatively set for Monday August 4, starting at 6:00 PM. Check the JSM schedule to find out the exact date and time.

 

Upcoming ENVR Workshop
What: Statistical Issues in Monitoring the Environment
When: Oct. 22-24, 2008
Where: National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, Colorado

This workshop covers state-of-the-art applications and statistical methods in environmental monitoring. Sessions on applications include monitoring in ecology, monitoring in air quality, monitoring of aquatic resources, monitoring of climate change and its impacts. The spatio-temporal data collected in environmental monitoring present some interesting and challenging statistical problems such as modeling of space-time correlation, analysis of the huge amount of correlated data, and analysis of high frequency monitoring data. Technical sessions will cover recent developments in statistical methods for environmental data.  A one-day short course on the analysis of spatial and spatio-temporal data will be offered and taught by Doug Nychka. There will also be a poster session and the poster abstracts need to be submitted by September 23, 2008. For more information, visit http://www.stat.purdue.edu/envr/ or contact Hao Zhang, Department of Statistics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47906:(765)496-9548; zhanghao@purdue.edu.