Ninth Lukacs Symposium

FRONTIERS OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECOLOGICAL STATISTICS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY: Synergistic Challenges, Opportunities and Directions for Statistics, Ecology, Environment, And Society

Sponsored by
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, Ohio, USA
Convener: G. P. Patil
in association with
International Statistical Institute
American Statistical Association
International Association for Ecology
Ecological Society of America
International Society for Ecosystem Health
International Society for Ecological Economics
International Environmetrics Society
Society for Risk Analysis
United States Environmental Protection Agency
 
-Program-
April 23-25, 1999
 
 
 

Symposium Schematic
 
Time Friday Saturday Sunday
SESSION 1 

8:00AM-10:00AM

8:00AM-9:30AM: Registration 

9:30AM-10:00AM: Inaugural 

(Olscamp 111) 

SAT1 

SE3 (Olscamp 213) 

ES3 (Olscamp 111) 

GS3 (Olscamp 215)

SUN1 

CP3 (Olscamp 111)

10:00AM-10:30AM c o f f e e b r e a k 

(Adjacent to Olscamp 111)

c o f f e e b r e a k 

(Adjacent to Olscamp 111)

c o f f e e b r e a k 

(Adjacent to Olscamp 111)

SESSION 2 

10:30AM-12:30PM

FR2
Handbook CP1
(Olscamp 111)
SAT2 

SE4 (Olscamp 213) 

ES4 (Olscamp 111) 

RA1 (Olscamp 211) 

GS4 (Olscamp 215)

SUN2 

CP4 (Olscamp 111) 
 

12:30PM-2:00PM Lunch on campus Box Lunch for Everyone: Informal Round Table Luncheon Discussions Lunch as you please
SESSION 3 

2:00PM-4:00PM

FR3 

SE1 (Olscamp 220) 

ES1 (Olscamp 111) 

GS1 (Olscamp 224)

SAT3 

SE5 (Olscamp 213 

ES5 (Olscamp 111) 

RA2 (Olscamp 211) 

GS5 (Olscamp 215)

SUN3 

SE6 (Olscamp 213) 

ES6 (Olscamp 215)

4:00PM-4:30PM c o f f e e b r e a k 

(Adjacent to Olscamp 111)

c o f f e e b r e a k 

(Adjacent to Olscamp 111)

SESSION 4 

4:30PM-6:30PM

FR4 

SE2 (Olscamp 220) 

ES2 (Olscamp 111) 

GS2 (Olscamp 224)

SAT4 

CP2 (Olscamp 111 
 

 
 
 
 
Evening 8:00PM-10PM 

Mixer 
 

(Friendship Room- 

Kaufman's at the Lodge )

7:00PM-7:30PM 

Reception and Cash Bar 

7:30PM-8:30PM 

Banquet (B) 

8:30PM-9:00PM 

Millenium Milestones (MM) 

9:00PM-9:30PM 

Millenium in Transition(MIT) 

9:30PM-10:30PM 

Awards Ceremony (AC) 

Hospitality & Thanks (HAT) 

(Atrium--Kaufman's at the Lodge )

SE: Statistical Ecology BAC: Banquet and Awards Ceremony
ES: Environmental Statistics MM: Millenium Milestones
RA: Risk Assessment: MIT: Millenium in Transition
CP: COMPASS Perspectives HAT: Hospitality and Thanks
 

Alphabetical List of Participants

-with Participation-

Albert, James: FR1 & SAT.BAC.MC, HAT

Anderson, Elizabeth: SAT4.CP2, SAT.BAC.AC & SAT.BAC.MM

Bailey, Robert: SAT1.SE3

Banga, Senin: SAT3.RA2

Boomer, Karen: SAT3.GS5

Burkhart, Harold E.: SAT3.SE5 & SUN1.CP3

Campbell, Katherine: SAT2.GS4

Carr, Dan: SAT3.GS5 & SUN2.CP4

Carson, John: FR4.ES2

Caswell, Hal: SAT2.SE4

Chatwin, P. C.: SAT2.ES4

Chen, Hanfeng: FR1 & SAT.BAC.HAT

Christakos, George: SUN2.CP4

Costanza, Robert: SUN1.CP3

Cox, Larry: SAT2.ES4 & SAT4.CP2

Cranny, C. J.: FR1

Curran, Thomas: SUN2.CP4

Dennis, Brian: SAT2.SE4 & SUN1.CP3

Ducey, Mark: FR4.SE2

El-Shaarawi, Abdel: SAT3.ES5, SAT.BAC.MM & SUN2.CP4

Feder, Paul: SAT3.RA2

Filipponi, Danila: FR3.GS1

Gallo, Francesca: -

Gibbons, Robert: FRI2.CP1

Gove, Jeffrey: FR4.SE2

Green, Roger: SUN1.CP3

Gregoire, Timothy: FR4.SE2

Gross, Kevin: SUN3.SE6

Gupta, Arjun: SAT.BAC.HAT

Gurevitch, Jessica: SUN1.CP3

Guttorp, Peter: SAT4.CP2

Hayden, J. L.: FR1 & SAT.BAC.HAT

Hertzberg, Richard: SAT2.RA1

Heumann, Christian: SAT3.ES5

Higdon, David: FR3.GS1

Huber, William: SAT1.ES3

Hunt, William: FRI2.CP1

Jackson, Donald: FR3.SE1

Janardan, K. G.: SUN3.SE6

Johnson, Douglas: SAT1.GS3 & SUN1.CP3

Johnson, Glen: SAT1.GS3 & SAT.BAC.MIT

Kaiser, Mark: FR3.GS1

Kalan, Polona: SAT1.ES3

Kodell, Ralph: SAT2.RA1

Koehl, Michael: SAT3.SE5

Kosmelj, Katarina: SAT1.ES3

Legendre, Pierre: FR3.SE1 & SUN1.CP3

Li, Bai-Lian: SAT1.SE3

Li, Ta-Hsin: SUN3. ES6

Linder, Ernst: FR3.GS1

Loehle, Craig: SAT2.GS4

Lulla, Kamlesh P.: SAT1.GS3 SAT.BAC.MIT

MacNeill, Ian: FR3.ES1

Margosches, Elizabeth: FR3.ES1 Matis, James: FR3.ES1 & SAT.BAC.MM

Middleton, Charles: SAT.BAC.MC & SAT.BAC.HAT

Mohapl, Jaroslav: SAT2.ES4

Myers, Wayne: SAT1.GS3

Naumova, Elena N.: SUN3.ES6

Norris, James: SUN3.SE6

Nusser, Sarah: SAT1.ES3

Olsen, Anthony: SUN2.CP4

Orloci, Laszlo: SAT3.SE5

Ozturk, Omer: FR4.ES2

Parise, Helen: SAT2.RA1

Patil, G. P.: FR1, FR2.CP1 & SAT.BAC.MC

Patten, Bernard: SAT3.SE5 & SAT.BAC.MM

Perry, Joe: SAT1.SE3

Pollock, Kenneth: FR4.SE2

Rao, C. R.: SAT4.CP2, SAT.BAC.AC , SAT.BAC.MM

Rathbun, Stephen: SAT2.GS4

Ross, N. Phillip: SAT4.CP2, SAT.BAC.AC & SAT.BAC.MIT

Royle, Andy: FR3.SE1

Russek-Cohen, Estelle: SAT2.SE4

Sauer, John: SAT2.GS4

Schreuder, Hans: SUN2.CP4

Scott, J. Michael: SUN1.CP3

Sedransk, Joseph: FR4.GS2

Sinha, Bikas: SAT1.ES3

Sinha, Bimal K.: SAT3.ES5

Small, Mitchell: FR2.CP1

Smith, Eric: SAT3.ES5 & SUN1.CP3

Smith, Richard L.: SAT2.ES4

Solow, Andrew: FR3.SE1

Somers, Keith: SAT2.SE4

Spiegelman, Clifford:  SUN2.CP4

Stauffer, Howard: SUN3.SE6

Stein, Alfred: FR4.GS2

Stevens, Donald: SAT3.GS5

Stiteler, William: SAT3.RA2

Stoline, Michael: SUN3.ES6

Sun, Jiayang: FR4.ES2

Suter, Glenn: SAT4.CP2

Taillie, Charles: SAT1.GS3 & SAT2.RA1

Tardiff, Mark: FR4.GS2

Teuschler, Linda: SAT3.RA2

Thompson, Steven: FR4.ES2

Turchetti, Paolo: SAT3.GS5

Turkman, K. F.: FR3.ES1 & SUN2.CP4

Ver Hoef, Jay: FR4.SE2

Warren, John: SUN2.CP4

Zidek, James: SAT.BAC.MM

Zimmerman, Dale: SAT1.SE3

Zirbel, Craig: FR4.GS2 &  SAT.BAC.HAT
 
 

Program
 

Friday, April 23, 1999

 

FRIDAY: SESSION 1: 8:00AM-10:00AM
 

8:00AM-9:30AM REGISTRATION (Location: Adjacent to Olscamp 111)
 

9:30AM-10:00AM INAUGURAL (Location: Olscamp 111)

G. P. Patil, C. J. Cranny, J. L. Hayden

Craig Zirbel, James Albert, Hanfeng Chen

G. P. Patil
 
 

10:00AM-10:30AM Coffee Break (Adjacent to Olscamp 111)
 
 

FRIDAY: SESSION 2: 10:30AM-12:30PM
 

COMPASS Perspectives (CP1): Issues and Approaches for Combining Practicality

with Cross-Disciplinary Scholarship

(Location: Olscamp 111)

Chair: G. P. Patil
 

Speakers:

10:30-11:00 G. P. Patil, Department of Statistics, Penn State University

Proposed Handbook for Applied Environmental and Ecological Statistics: Planning and Organization with Floor Discussion
 

11:00-11:30 William F. Hunt, Jr., Visiting Senior Scientist, Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University

National air quality and emission trends--the nation's report card on air pollution

11:30-12:00 Robert D. Gibbons, Departments of Biometry and Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago

Environmental regulatory statistics: A brief history and future direction
 

12:00-12:30 Mitchell Small, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

Statistical tools promoting stakeholder participation and improved science for environmental decision making
 

12:30PM-2:00PM LUNCH (On campus)
 

FRIDAY: SESSION 3: 2:00PM-4:00PM
 

Statistical Ecology (SE1)

(Location: Olscamp 220)

Chair: Andrew Solow

Speakers:

2:00-2:30 Andrew Solow, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Some statistics for biological diversity
 

2:30-3:00 Donald A. Jackson, Department of Zoology, University of Toronto

Procrustean approaches for analysis and hypothesis testing
 

3:00-3:30 J. Andy Royle, Adaptive Management and Assessment Team, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Multivariate models for avian population count data, with application to the North American Breeding Bird Survey

3:30-4:00 Pierre Legendre, Departement de Sciences Biologiques, Universite de Montreal

Distance-based redundancy analysis: Testing multi-species responses in multifactorial ecological experiments
 
 

Environmental Statistics (ES1)

(Location: Olscamp 111)

Chair: James H. Matis
 

Speakers:

2:00-2:30 James H. Matis, Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University

On bees and mites and their interactions: What can stochastic population models tell us.
 

2:30-3:00 K. F. Turkman, Center of Statistics, University of Lisbon

Statistical screening methods and their applications in environmental studies

3:00-3:30 Ian B. MacNeill, Dept. of Statistical & Actuarial Sci., University of Western Ontario

Estimation of incidence rates using sequential screening
 

3:30-4:00 Elizabeth Margosches, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency

Health data: How do we use it to protect the public/environment?
 

Geospatial Statistics (GS1)

(Location: Olscamp 224)

Chair: Ernst Linder
 

Speakers:

2:00-2:30 Ernst Linder, Department of Mathematics, University of New Hampshire

Spatial-temporal analyses in global climate change research
 

2:30-3:00 Mark S. Kaiser, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University

The roles and trend and dependence in modeling stochastic processes
 

3:00-3:30 David M. Higdon, Inst. of Statistics & Decision Science, Duke University

Modelling spatial covariance through process convolutions
 

3:30-4:00 Danila Filipponi, Department of Statistics, Penn State University

Use of indicator kriging to improve spatial coherence of thematic raster maps
 

4:00PM-4:30PM Coffee Break (Adjacent to Olscamp 111)
 
 
 
 

FRIDAY: SESSION 4: 4:30PM-6:30PM
 

Statistical Ecology (SE2)

(Location: Olscamp 220)

Chair: Timothy G. Gregoire
 

Speakers:

4:30-5:00 Jeffrey Gove, Northeast Forest Experiment Station

Angle gauge sampling of downed coarse woody debris: A conspectus

5:00-5:30 Kenneth H. Pollock, Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University

Combining multiple types of sampling in capture-recapture modelling
 

5:30-6:00 Jay M. Ver Hoef, Alaska Department of Fish and Game

Implications of hierarchical models on sampling designs for long term monitoring of ecological data
 

6:00-6:30 Timothy G. Gregoire, School of Forestry and Environ. Studies, Yale University

Improved estimation following Poisson sampling: a forestry perspective
 
 

Environmental Statistics (ES2)

(Location: Olscamp 111)

Chair: Steven K. Thompson
 

Speakers:

4:30-5:00 Steven K. Thompson, Department of Statistics, Penn State University

On design and model based approaches in adaptive sampling
 

5:00-5:25 Jiayang Sun, Department of Statistics, Case Western Reserve University

Biased sampling: Test and estimation
 

5:25-5:50 Omer Ozturk, Department of Statistics, Ohio State University

Ranked set sample allocation procedures for two-sample median and Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon tests
 

5:50-6:10 John H. Carson, IT Corporation

Composite sampling inference using the principle of maximum entropy
 

6:10-6:30 John H. Carson, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Bowling Green State University

Multianalyte tests using composite samples
 

Geospatial Statistics (GS2)

(Location: Olscamp 224)

Chair: Alfred Stein
 

Speakers:

4:30-5:00 Alfred Stein, Wageningen Agricultural University

Variability in space and time of phenomena related to environment and agriculture.
 

5:00-5:30 Mark Tardiff, Neptune and Company

Modeling Plant Phenology Influences Upon Basin Hydrology
 

5:30-6:00 Joseph Sedransk, Department of Statistics, Case Western Reserve University

Estimation for small geographical areas
 

6:00-6:30 Craig Zirbel, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Bowling Green State University

Passive tracer transport and dispersion by random fluid flows
 
 
 
 

FRIDAY: E V E N I N G

Dinner as you please; consult local information
 
 

8:00PM-10:00PM MIXER

(Location: Kaufman's at the Lodge-Friendship Room)
 
 

Saturday, April 24, 1999

 

SATURDAY: SESSION 1: 8:00AM-10:00AM
 

Statistical Ecology (SE3)

(Location: Olscamp 213)

Chair: Joe Perry
 

Speakers:

8:00-8:30 Joe Perry, Department of Entomology & Nematology, Rothamsted Experimental Station

Red-blue plots for detecting clusters in count data
 

8:30-9:00 Dale L. Zimmerman, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Sci, University of Iowa

Bayesian modelling of spatial point patterns in ecology
 

9:00-9:30 Bai-lian Li, Department of Biology, The University of New Mexico

Measuring dynamic biodiversity
 

9:30-10:00 Robert Bailey, Dept of Zoology, University of Western Ontario

The scale dependency of biological assessment--Paradigms lost or shifted
 
 
 
 

Environmental Statistics (ES3)

(Location: Olscamp 111)

Chair: Sarah Nusser
 

Speakers:

8:00-8:30 Sarah Nusser, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University

Recent developments in the National Resources Inventory Survey Program
 

8:30-9:00 Polona Kalan, Slovenian Forestry Institute

How to plan a long-term soil survey?
 

9:00-9:30 William Huber,Quantitative Decisions

Potential errors in selecting regions for a focused soils remediation
 

9:30-10:00 Bikas K. Sinha, Statistics and Mathematics Division, Indian Statistical Institute

Nonparametric evaluation of cleanup procedures
 
 

Geospatial Statistics (GS3)

(Location: Olscamp 215)

Chair: Kamlesh Lulla, Office of Earth Sciences, NASA/Johnson Space Center
 
 

Speakers:

8:00-8:30 Douglas H. Johnson, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Ctr

Toward better atlases: Improving presence-absence information
 

8:30-9:00 Wayne L. Myers, Environmental Resources Research Inst., Penn State University

Pattern extraction and compression for large multivariate datasets

9:00-9:30 Glen D. Johnson, Department of Statistics, Penn State University

Quantitative characterization of watershed-delineated landscape patterns in Pennsylvania: An evaluation of conditional entropy profiles
 

9:30-10:00 Charles Taillie, Department of Statistics, Penn State University

Multiscale Modeling and Analysis of Watersheds and Landscapes: A

Frequency Table Approach.
 

10:00AM-10:30PM Coffee Break (Adjacent to Olscamp 111)
 
 

SATURDAY: SESSION 2: 10:30AM-12:30PM
 

Statistical Ecology (SE4)

(Location: Olscamp 213)

Chair: Brian Dennis
 

Speakers:

10:30-11:00 Brian Dennis, Wildlife and Range Sciences, University of Idaho

Fly-bys, saddles, and chicken steps in ecological time series
 

11:00-11:30 Hal Caswell, Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Matrix population models: Statistical issues
 

11:30-12:00 Estelle Russek-Cohen, Department of Animal Sciences, University of Maryland

Frontier functions and models for intermolt period in crustaceans
 

12:00-12:30 Keith M. Somers, Ontario Ministry of the Environemnt, Dorset Environmental Science Centre

A generalized approach for estimating temporal coherence in short time series
 
 

Environmental Statistics (ES4)

(Location: Olscamp 111)

Chair: P. C. Chatwin
 

Speakers:

10:30-11:00 P. C. Chatwin, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sheffield

Models for atmospheric dispersion: Some examples of interactions between physics and statistics
 

11:00-11:30 Lawrence H. Cox, National Exposure Resarch Lab, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Estimating regional trends in dry sulfate deposition
 

11:30-12:00 Richard L. Smith, Department of Statistics, University of North Carolina

Estimating spatially varying time trends
 

12:00-12:30 Jaroslav Mohapl, Atmospheric Environment Service

Statistical aspects of air pollutant transport modeling
 
 
 
 

Risk Analysis (RA1)

(Location: Olscamp 211)

Chair: Ralph Kodell
 

Speakers:

10:30-11:00 Ralph Kodell, Division of Biometry, Center for Toxicological Research

Statistical models of health risk due to microbial contamination of foods
 

11:00-11:30 Richard C. Hertzberg, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency

Statistical Methods For Risk Assessment Based On Limited Data But Pretty Good Ideas
 

11:30-12:00 Charles Taillie, Department of Statistics, Penn State University

Certain statistical issues relating to the implementation of the benchmark dose method
 

12:00-12:30 Helen Parise, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University

Incorporation of historical controls using semiparametric mixed models
 
 

Geospatial Statistics (GS4)

(Location: Olscamp 215)

Chair: John R. Sauer
 

Speakers:

10:30-11:00 John R. Sauer, National Biological Survey, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center

Estimating regional abundance and population trajectories from count data
 

11:00-11:30 Stephen L. Rathbun, Department of Statistics, The University of Georgia

Geostatistical methods for predicting the mercury contamination of soils in the Florida everglades
 

11:30-12:00 Katherine Campbell, Geoanalysis Group, Los Alamos National Lab

Linking meso-scale and micro-scale models: The statistical disaggregation problem
 

12:00-12:30 Craig S. Loehle, National Council for Air and Stream Improvement

Optimal control of distributed processes on landscapes: the SWAP algorithm
 
 

12:30PM-2:00PM LUNCH (Box Lunch for Everyone:

Informal Luncheon Round Tables)
 
 

SATURDAY: SESSION 3: 2:00PM-4:00PM
 

Statistical Ecology (SE5)

(Location: Olscamp 213)

Chair: Michael Koehl
 

Speakers:

2:00-2:30 Michael Koehl, Forest Biometrics & Computer Sci., Dresden University of Technology

Reliability of international environmental statistics
 

2:30-3:00 Harold E. Burkhart, Department of Forestry, VPI & SU

Modeling forest stand dynamics in a changing environment
 

3:00-3:30 Laszlo Orloci, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Western Ontario

From order to causes: in pursuit of syndynamic principles
 

3:30-4:00 Bernard C. Patten, Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia

Network aggradation: an ecological perspective on how ordering can exceed disordering in steady-state systems far from equilibrium
 

Environmental Statistics (ES5)

(Location: Olscamp 111)

Chair: Eric P. Smith
 

Speakers:

2:00-2:30 Eric P. Smith, Department of Statistics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State U

Evaluating site impairment: Bayesian and classical approaches
 

2:30-3:00 B. K. Sinha, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Maryland

Inference about the common mean of a bivariate normal population with an environmental application
 

3:00-3:30 Christian Heumann, Institut fuer Statistik, University of Munich

Likelihood-based regression methods for correlated categorical response with application to forest damage data
 

3:30-4:00 A. H. El-Shaarawi, National Water Research Institute

Microbiological water quality regulations: Uncertainties in applications
 

Risk Analysis (RA2)

(Location: Olscamp 211)

Chair: Linda K. Teuschler
 

Speakers:

2:00-2:30 Linda K. Teuschler, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

A comparative risk framework methdology (CRFM) for comparing competing, disparate health risks for microbes and disinfection by-products (DBP) in drinking water
 

2:30-3:00 William M. Stiteler, Syracuse Research Corp.

Modeling the joint action of complex mixtures of disinfection by-products (DBPs) in drinking water
 

3:00-3:30 Paul Feder, Statistics & Data Analysis Systems, Battelle

Monte Carlo risk assessment aggregate exposure models.
 

3:30-4:00 Senin Banga, Department of Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University

Likelihood contour and lagrange multipliers method for the calculation of asymptotic upper confidence limits on excess risks for quantitative responses
 
 

Geospatial Statistics (GS5)

(Location: Olscamp 215)

Chair: Daniel Carr
 

Speakers:

2:00-2:30 Daniel Carr, Operations Research and Applied Statistics, George Mason University

New templates for environmental graphics: >From micromaps to global grids

2:30-3:00 Karen Boomer, Department of Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University

Comparison of Measures to Assess Ecosystem Degradation Using Remote Imagery
 

3:00-3:30 Paolo Turchetti, Dipartimento di Statistica, Universita Degli Studi di Roma

A hierarchical decision-making procedure applied to the international context for the reallocation of CO2 emissions
 

3:30-4:00 Donald L. Stevens, Dynamic Corporation

Sample surveys of aquatic resources
 

4:00PM-4:30PM Coffee Break (Adjacent to Olscamp 111)
 

SATURDAY: SESSION 4: 4:30PM-6:00PM
 

COMPASS Perspectives (CP2): Panel Discussion on Issues and Approaches for Combining Practicality with Cross-Disciplinary Scholarship into the New Millenium

with Floor Discussion:

Each panel member will give a crisp ten minute view and overview before the panel discussion and the floor discussion that will follow.

(Location: Olscamp 111)
 

Chair: Lawrence H. Cox
 
 
 
 

Panel Members:
 

Elizabeth Anderson, President, Sciences International, Inc.

Lawrence H. Cox, National Exposure Research Lab, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Peter Guttorp, Department of Statistics, University of Washington

C. R. Rao, Department of Statistics, Pennsylvania State University

N. Phillip Ross, Chief Statistician, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Glenn Suter, National Center for Environ. Assessment, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
 
 
 
 

SATURDAY: E V E N I N G

(Location: Kaufman's at the Lodge-Atrium)
 

MC: G. P. Patil

in association with

C. R. Middleton

J. H. Albert
 

7:00PM-7:30PM Reception and Cash Bar
 

7:30PM-8:30PM Banquet
 

8:30PM-9:00PM Millenium Milestones
 

Personal five minute glimpse of milestones, events, and appreciation

James Matis

Abdel El-Shaarawi

James Zidek

Elizabeth Anderson

Bernard Patten

C. R. Rao
 

9:00PM-9:30PM Millenium in Transition

Kamlesh Lulla

N. Phillip Ross

Glen D. Johnson
 

9:30PM-10:30PM Awards Ceremony

Provost Middleton

G. P. Patil

John C. Cairns, Jr.

N. Phillip Ross

C. R. Rao

Elizabeth Anderson
 

Hospitality and Thanks Arjun Gupta, Symposium Host

Jack Hayden, Department Chair

James Albert, Gastronomics

Craig Zirbel, Eclectics

Hanfeng Chen, Transportation

Cyndi Patterson, Graduate Secretary

Charles Middleton, Provost
 

Sunday, April 25, 1999

 

SUNDAY: SESSION 1: 8:00AM-10:00AM
 

COMPASS Perspectives (CP3): Panel Discussion on Issues and Approaches for Combining Practicality with Cross-Disciplinary Scholarship into the New Millenium

with Floor Discussion:

Each panel member will give a crisp ten minute view and overview before the panel discussion and the floor discussion that will follow.

(Location: Olscamp 111)
 

Chair: Pierre Legendre
 
 

Panel Members:
 

Harold E. Burkhart, Department of Forestry, VPI & SU

Robert Costanza, Center for Environ. & Estuarine Studies, University of Maryland

Brian Dennis, Wildlife and Range Sciences, University of Idaho

Roger Green, Department of Zoology, University of Western Ontario

Jessica Gurevitch, Department of Ecology and Evolution, State University of New York

Pierre Legendre, Departement de Sciences Biologiques, Universite de Montreal

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

Douglas H. Johnson, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Ctr

Eric P. Smith, Department of Statistics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State U

10:00AM-10:30AM Coffee Break (Adjacent to Olscamp 111)
 
 
 
 

SUNDAY: SESSION 2: 10:30AM-12:30PM
 

COMPASS Perspectives (CP4): Panel Discussion on Issues and Approaches for Combining Practicality with Cross-Disciplinary Scholarship into the New Millenium

with Floor Discussion:

Each panel member will give a crisp ten minute view and overview before the panel discussion and the floor discussion that will follow.

(Location: Olscamp 111)
 

Chair: Abdel El-Shaarawi
 
 

Panel Members:
 

Daniel Carr, Operations Research and Applied Statistics, George Mason University

George Christakos, Dept. of Environmental Sci. and Engineering, University of North Carolina

Thomas Curran, Info.Transf. & Prog. Integ. Division, U.S Environmental Protection Agency

Abdel El-Shaarawi, National Water Research Institute

Anthony Olsen, Natl. Hlth & Environ.Effects Res. Lab, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Hans Schreuder, Forest & Range Experiment Station, U. S. Forest Service

K. F. Turkman, Center of Statistics, University of Lisbon

Clifford H. Spiegelman, Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University

John Warren, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency
 
 

12:30PM-2:00PM LUNCH (As you please)

SUNDAY: SESSION 3: 2:00PM-4:00PM
 

Statistical Ecology (SE6)

(Location: Olscamp 213)

Chair: K. G. Janardan
 

Speakers:

2:00-2:30 K. G. Janardan, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Eastern Michigan University

On a distribution associated with a stochastic process in ecology
 

2:30-3:00 James L. III Norris, Dept of Mathematics & Computer Science, Wake Forest Univ.

Nonparametric MLE for heterogeneous poisson species abundance models

3:00-3:30 Kevin Gross, Departments of Zoology and Statistics, University of Wisconsin

Optimal sample allocation for demographic matrix models.
 

3:30-4:00 Howard B. Stauffer, Applied Statistics, Humboldt State University

Application of a "generalized binomial model" for ranking old-growth redwood stands in Northern California, using occupancy as an index of marbled murrelet activity
 
 

Environmental Statistics (ES6)

(Location: Olscamp 215)

Chair: Michael Stoline

Speakers:

2:00-2:30 Michael Stoline, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Western Michigan University

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
 

2:30-3:00 Elena Naumova, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Tufts University School of Medicine

Modeling waterborne infectious outbreak: time series approach
 

3:00-3:30 Ta-Hsin Li, Department of Mathematical Sciences, IBM

Multiscale representation and analysis of spherical data by spherical wavelets
 


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