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 |
|
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 ) |
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
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: 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: 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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