1999 Lukacs Symposium participants
Current as of April 20, 1999

James H. Albert
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH USA

Elizabeth Anderson
Sciences International, Inc.
Alexandria, VA USA

Kolawole Olumide Babalola
Department of Human Ecology
Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium

Robert C. Bailey
Department of Zoology
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
The scale dependency of biological assessment - Paradigms lost or shifted

Senin Banga
Department of Statistics
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA USA

Karen Boomer
Department of Statistics
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA USA
Comparison of measures to assess ecosystem degradation using remote imagery

Robert J. Buck
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI USA

Harold E. Burkhart
Department of Forestry
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA USA
Modeling forest stand dynamics in a changing environment

Katherine Campbell
Geoanalysis Group
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM USA
Linking meso-scale and micro-scale models: The statistical disaggregation problem

Daniel B. Carr
Operations Research & Applied Statistics
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA USA
New templates for environmental graphics: From micromaps to global grids

John H. Carson
IT Corporation
Findlay, OH USA
Composite sampling inference using the principle of maximum entropy

Hal Caswell
Biology Department
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA USA
Matrix population models: Statistical issues

P. C. Chatwin
School of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Models for atmospheric dispersion: Some examples of interactions between physics and statistics

Hanfeng Chen
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH USA

George Christakos
Department of Environmental Science and Engineering
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC USA
The holistochastic character of environmental health statistics

Robert Costanza
Center for Environmental & Estuarine Studies
University of Maryland, Solomons, MD USA

Lawrence H. Cox
National Exposure Research Lab
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC USA
Estimation of regional trends in sulfur dioxide over the Eastern United States

Thomas Curran
Information Transfer & Program Integration Division
U.S Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC USA
Communicating quantitative information to decision makers

Brian Dennis
Wildlife and Range Sciences
University of Idaho, Moscow, ID USA
Fly-bys, saddles, and chicken steps in ecological time series

Mark Ducey
Department of Natural Resources
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH USA

A. H. El-Shaarawi
National Water Research Institute
Burlington, Ontario, Canada
Microbiological water quality regulations: Uncertainties in applications

Paul Feder
Statistics & Data Analysis Systems
Battelle, Columbus, OH USA
Monte Carlo risk assessment aggregate exposure models

Danila Filipponi
Department of Statistics
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA USA
Use of indicator kriging to improve spatial coherence of thematic raster maps

Francesca Gallo
Dipartimento di Statistica
Universita Degli Studi di Roma, Rome, Italy

Robert D. Gibbons
Departments of Biometry and Psychiatry
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL USA
Environmental regulatory statistics: A brief history and future direction

Carl V. Gogolak
Environmental Measurements Laboratory
US Department of Energy, New York, NY USA

Jeffrey Gove
Northeast Forest Experiment Station
Durham, NH USA
Angle gauge sampling of downed coarse woody debris: A conspectus

Roger Green
Department of Zoology
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Timothy G. Gregoire
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Yale University, New Haven, CT USA
Improved estimation following Poisson sampling: A forestry perspective

Kevin Gross
Departments of Zoology and Statistics
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI USA
Optimal sample allocation for demographic matrix models

Arjun K. Gupta
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH USA

Jessica Gurevitch
Department of Ecology and Evolution
State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY USA
Meta-analysis in ecology and evolution: A brief history

Peter Guttorp
Department of Statistics
University of Washington, Seattle, WA USA
The future of environmental statistics

John L. Hayden
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH USA

Thomas A. Hern
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH USA

Richard C. Hertzberg
National Center for Environmental Assessment
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH USA
Statistical methods for risk assessment based on limited data but pretty good ideas

Christian Heumann
Institut fuer Statistik
University of Munich, Muenchen, Germany
Likelihood-based regression methods for correlated categorical response with application to forest damage data

David M. Higdon
Institute of Statistics & Decision Science
Duke University, Durham, NC USA
Modelling spatial covariance through process convolutions

William Huber
Quantitative Decisions
Merion, PA USA
Potential errors in selecting regions for a focused soils remediation

William F. Hunt, Jr.
Emissions, Monitoring and Analysis Division
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC USA
National air quality and emission trends: The nation's report card on air pollution

Donald A. Jackson
Department of Zoology
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada
Procrustean approaches for analysis and hypothesis testing

K. G. Janardan
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI USA
On a distribution associated with a stochastic process in ecology

Douglas H. Johnson
Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
U.S. Geological Survey, Jamestown, ND USA
Toward better atlases: Improving presence-absence information

Glen Johnson
Center for Statistical Ecology and Environmental Statistics
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA USA
Quantitative characterization of watershed-delineated landscape patterns in Pennsylvania: An evaluation of conditional entropy profiles

Mark S. Kaiser
Department of Statistics
Iowa State University, Ames, IA USA
The roles of trend and dependence in modeling stochastic processes

Polona Kalan
Slovenian Forestry Institute
University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
How to plan a long-term soil survey?

John C. Kern
Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences
Duke University, Durham NC USA

Kazim Khan
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Kent State University, Kent, OH USA

Ralph Kodell
Division of Biometry and Risk Assessment
National Center for Toxicological Research, Jefferson, AR USA
Statistical models of health risk due to microbial contamination of foods

Michael Koehl
Forest Biometrics and Computer Sciences
Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany
Reliability of international environmental statistics

Katarina Kosmelj
Biotechnical Faculty
University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Radha G. Laha
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH USA

Pierre Legendre
Departement de Sciences Biologiques
Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Distance-based redundancy analysis: Testing multi-species responses in multifactorial ecological experiments

Bai-Lian Li
Department of Biology
The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM USA
Measuring dynamic biodiversity

Ta-Hsin Li
Department of Mathematical Sciences, T. J. Watson Research Center
Yorktown Heights, NY USA
and
Department of Statistics and Applied Probability
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA USA
Multiscale representation and analysis of spherical data by spherical wavelets

Ernst Linder
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH USA
Spatial-temporal analyses in global climate change research: From small scale to large scale

John R. Lockwood III
Department of Statistics
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA USA

Craig S. Loehle
National Council for Air and Stream Improvement
Naperville, IL USA
Optimal control of distributed processes on landscapes: The SWAP algorithm

Kamlesh P. Lulla
Office of Earth Sciences
NASA/Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX USA

Ian B. MacNeill
Department of Statistical and Actuarial Science
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
Estimation of incidence rates using sequential screening

Elizabeth Margosches
U. S. Environmental Protection Agency
Washington, DC, USA
Health data: How do we use it to protect the public/environment?

James H. Matis
Department of Statistics
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX USA
On bees and mites and their interactions: What can stochastic population models tell us

Jaroslav Mohapl
Atmospheric Environment Service
Ontario, Canada
Statistical aspects of air pollutant transport modeling

Wayne L. Myers
Environmental Resources Research Institute
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA USA
Pattern extraction and compression for large multivariate datasets

Alessia Naccarato
Dipartimento di Statistica
Universita Degli Studi di Roma, Rome, Italy

Elena N. Naumova
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health
Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA USA
Modeling waterborne infectious outbreak: Time series approach

James L. Norris III
Department of of Mathematics & Computer Science
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC USA
Nonparametric MLE for heterogeneous Poisson species abundance models

Sarah Nusser
Department of Statistics
Iowa State University, Ames, IA USA
Recent developments in the National Resources Inventory Survey Program

Samuel Ofori-Nyarko
Department of Mathematics
University of Tennessee

Anthony R. Olsen
National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory
U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Corvallis, OR USA
Sample surveys of aquatic resources

Laszlo Orloci
Department of Plant Sciences
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
From order to causes: In pursuit of syndynamic principles

Omer Ozturk
Department of Statistics
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH USA
Ranked set sample allocation procedures for two-sample median and Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon tests

Helen Parise
Department of Biostatistics
Harvard University
Incorporation of historical controls using semiparametric mixed models

G. P. Patil
Center for Statistical Ecology and Environmental Statistics
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA USA

Bernard C. Patten
Institute of Ecology
University of Georgia, Athens, GA USA
Network aggradation: An ecological perspective on how ordering can exceed disordering in steady-state systems far from equilibrium

Edsel Peña
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH USA

Joe N. Perry
Department of Entomology & Nematology
Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, UK
Red-blue plots for detecting clusters in count data

Kenneth H. Pollock
Department of Statistics
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC USA
Combining multiple types of sampling in capture-recapture modeling

C. R. Rao
Center for Multivariate Analysis
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA USA

Stephen L. Rathbun
Department of Statistics
The University of Georgia, Athens, GA USA
Geostatistical methods for predicting the mercury contamination of soils in the Florida Everglades

N. Phillip Ross
Center for Environmental Information and Statistics
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, USA

J. Andy Royle
Adaptive Management and Assessment Team
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Laurel, MD USA
Multivariate models for avian population count data, with application to the North American Breeding Bird Survey

Estelle Russek-Cohen
Department of Animal Sciences
University of Maryland, College Park, MD USA
Frontier models for the intermolt period in crustaceans

John R. Sauer
United States Geological Survey
Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, MD USA
Estimating regional abundance and population trajectories from count data

Hans T. Schreuder
Forest & Range Experiment Station
U. S. Forest Service, Fort Collins,, CO USA
Inventory and monitoring in the USFS and other Natural Resources Agencies of the USFS, can these efforts be merged?

Charles T. Scott
Northeastern Research Station
USDA Forest Service, Delaware, OH USA

J. Michael Scott
Forestry, Wildlife and Range Sciences
University of Idaho, Moscow, ID USA

Joseph Sedransk
Department of Statistics
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH USA
Estimation for small geographical areas

Bikas K. Sinha
Statistics and Mathematics Division
Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India
Nonparametric evaluation of cleanup procedures

Bimal K. Sinha
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD USA
Inference about the common mean of a bivariate normal population with an environmental application

Mitchell Small
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Engineering and Public Policy
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA USA
Statistical tools promoting stakeholder participation and improved science for environmental decision making

Eric P. Smith
Department of Statistics
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA USA
Evaluating site impairment: Bayesian and classical approaches

Richard L. Smith
Department of Statistics
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC USA
Estimating spatially varying time trends

Andrew Solow
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA USA
Some statistics for biological diversity

Keith M. Somers
Ontario Ministry of the Environment
Dorset Environmental Science Centre, Dorset, Ontario, Canada
A generalized approach for estimating temporal coherence in short time series

Danhong Song
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Ohio Northern University, Ada, OH USA

Clifford H. Spiegelman
Department of Statistics
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX USA

Howard B. Stauffer
Redwood Sciences Laboratory
USDA Forest Service, Arcata, CA USA
Application of a "generalized binomial model" for ranking old-growth redwood stands in Northern California, using occupancy as an index of marbled murrelet activity.

Alfred Stein
Department of Soil Science and Geology
Wageningen Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Variability in space and time of phenomena related to environment and agriculture

Donald L. Stevens, Jr.
Dynamac Corporation
Corvallis, OR USA
Sample surveys of aquatic resources

William M. Stiteler
Syracuse Research Corporation
Syracuse, NY USA
Modeling the joint action of complex mixtures of disinfection by-products (DBPs) in drinking water

Michael R. Stoline
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI USA
Experiences as a statistician comparing compliance well groundwater concentrations to background at a site in Michigan using EPA guidance: Where the rubber meets the road

Jiayang Sun
Department of Statistics
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH USA
Biased sampling: Test and estimation

Glenn Suter
National Center for Environmental Assessment
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH USA
Statistics and risk assessment

Gábor Székely
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH USA

Charles Taillie
Department of Statistics
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA USA
Multiscale modeling and analysis of watersheds and landscapes: A frequency table approach

Jen Tang
School of Management
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN USA

Mark F. Tardiff
Neptune and Company
Los Alamos, NM USA
Modeling plant phenology influences upon basin hydrology

Linda K. Teuschler
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
National Center for Environmental Assessment, Cincinnati, OH USA
A comparative risk framework methodology (CRFM) for comparing competing, disparate health risks for microbes and disinfection by-products (DBP) in drinking water

Steven K. Thompson
Department of Statistics
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA USA
On design and model based approaches in adaptive sampling

Paolo Turchetti
Dipartimento di Statistica
Universita Degli Studi di Roma, Rome, Italy
A hierarchical decision-making procedure applied to the international context for the reallocation of CO emissions

K. F. Turkman
Center of Statistics
University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Statistical screening methods and their applications in environmental studies

Jay M. Ver Hoef
Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Fairbanks, AK USA
Implications of hierarchical models on sampling designs for long term monitoring of ecological data

John Warren
U. S. Environmental Protection Agency
Washington, DC, USA
The widening gap between two branches of environmental statistics

James V. Zidek
Department of Statistics
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Statistical models of health risk due to microbial contamination of foods

Dale L. Zimmerman
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA USA
Bayesian modeling of spatial point patterns in ecology

Craig Zirbel
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH USA
Passive tracer transport and dispersion by random fluid flows

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