Previous winners of ENVR Student Paper / Travel Awards

2005 Student Paper Award Winners:

First Place:

Alejandro Veen
UCLA Statistics
Title: Assessing Spatial Point Process Models for California Earthquakes using weighted K-functions
Co-Authors: Frederic Schoenberg

Honorable Mention:

Andrea Cook
Harvard Biostatistics
Title: Detecting Spatial Clustering in Matched Case-Control Studies
Co-Author: Yi Li

2004 Student Paper Award Winners:

First Place:

Holly Janes
University of Washington
Title: Overlap bias in the case-crossover design, with application to air pollution exposures
Co-Authors: Lianne Sheppard and Thomas Lumley

Honorable Mention:

Mikyoung Jun
University of Chicago
Title: Statistical comparison of observed and CMAQ modeled daily sulfate levels
Co-Author: Michael L. Stein

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2003 Student Paper Award Winners:

Rebecca A. Buchanan
University of Washington
Title: A cost analysis of ranked set sampling to estimate a population mean

Matthew W. Mitchell
North Carolina State University
Title: A likelihood ratio test for separability of covariances

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2002 Student Paper Award Winners:

Petrutza Caragea
University of North Carolina
Title: Approximate likelihoods for spatial processes.

Stanislav Kolenikov
University of North Carolina
Title: Spatio-temporal modeling of longitudinal PM2.5 data with missing values.

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2000 Student Paper Award Winners:

First Place:

Deepak K. Agarwal
University of Connecticut
Investigating tropical deforestation using two stage spatially misaligned regression models

Honorable Mention:

Jun Zhu
Iowa State University
Asymptotic inference for spatial CDF's over time

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1999 Student Paper Award Winner:

First Place:

Li Zhu
School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota
Title: Hierarchical Modeling of Spatio-temporally Misaligned Data: Relating Traffic Density toPediatric Asthma Incidence

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1998 Student Paper Award Winner:

First Place:

Breda Munoz-Hernandez
Department of Statistics, Oregon State University
Title: Design-based EOF model for environmental monitoring data analysis
Co-Authors: Virginia M. Lesser and Fred Ramsey

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1997 Student Paper Award Winners:

First Place:

Dawn E. Haines
Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University
Title: Estimating Populations Size Using Multiple Frames
Advisor: Kenneth H. Pollock

Honorable Mention:

Russell Alpizar-Jara
Biomathematics Graduate Program, Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University
Title: Population Estimation Using a Combination of Line Transect and Capture-Recapture for Mark-Resighting Experiments
Advisor: Kenneth H. Pollock

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1996 Student Paper Award Winners:

First Place:

Guoqin Su
Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago
Title: Statistical Scoring Procedures for Laboratory Performance Evaluation
Advisor: S. Hedayat

Second Place:

Kimberly Welsh Johnson
Biometrics Unit, Cornell University
Title: Canonical Correspondence Analysis as an Approximation to Gaussian Ordination
Advisor: Naomi Altman

Honorable Mention:

Dawn. E. Haines
Statistics Department, North Carolina State University
Title: Estimating Bald Eagle Population Size Using Dual Frame Sampling Techniques
Advisor: Kenneth Pollock

Fang Yi Luo
Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinatti
Title: Testing an Improved Method for Missing Data Imputation
Advisor: Paul Succop

Huiling Pei
Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinatti
Title: Anaconda Longitudinal Arsenic Exposure Study
Advisor: Paul Succop

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1995 Student Paper Award Winners:

First Place:

Brian M. Steel
Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Montana
Title: Kalman Filter Analysis of Growth-Climate Relationships in Old-Growth Forests
Advisor: David Patterson

Honorable Mention:

Song Qian
School of the Environment, Duke University
Title: Computing the Area Affected by Phosphorus Runoff in an Everglades Wetland Using Bayesian Kriging
Advisor: Kenneth Reckhow

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1994 Student Paper Award Winners:

First Place:

Lara J. Wolfson
Department of Statistics, Carnegie-Mellon University
Title: A Decision-Theoretic Approach to Environmental Remediation
Advisor: Joseph Kadane

Second Place:

Oliver Schabenberger
Dept. of Forestry, Section on Forest Biometrics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Title: Nonlinear Mixed Effects Growth Models for Repeated Measures in Ecology
Advisor: Timothy Gregoire

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1993 Student Paper Award Winners:

First Place:

Hulin Wu
Department of Statistics, Florida State University
Title: Modeling and Regressing Spatial Binary Data with Application to the Distribution of Species
Advisor: Fred Huffer

Second Place:

Kai Sun
Department of Statistics, University of Missouri
Title: Estimation of Acute Toxicity by Fitting Dose-Time-Response Surface
Advisor: Asit Basu