Organized by the Statistics and Environment Section of the American Statistical Association (ASA) and The Center for Integrating Statistical and Environmental Science (CISES) at The University of Chicago

October 26 - 28, 2006
Chicago, Illinois

 

Integrating Diverse Sources of Airshed Information in Pollution
William Christensen, Brigham Young Univerrsity

A Multivariate Hierarchical Bayesian Approach for Human Exposure Modeling
Noel Cressie, The Ohio State University

Modeling Environmental Data Using Skew-Elliptical Distributions
Graciela Gonzalez-Farias, CIMAT, Mexico

Evaluation of the RAQAST Model, Statistical Correction and Downscaling of Ozone Forecasts over Atlanta
Serge Guillas, Georgia Tech

Multivariate Geographic Clustering as a Basis for Ecoregionalization in the Environmental Sciences
William Hargrove, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Modeling Multivariate Extremes in the Environment
Janet Heffernan, Lancaster University, UK

Simplifying Chemical Transport Models
Hae Kyung Im, University of Chicago

Multivariate Methods for Environmental Space-time Processes; a Comparison with a Dynamic Linear Model-based Alternative
Nhu Le, UBC & BC Cancer Research Center, British Columbia

Bayesian Spatial Modeling of Extreme Precipitation in Colorado
Phillipe Naveau, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement

Maximum Entropy Modelling of Species Geographic Distributions
Steven Phillips, AT&T Labs - Research, New Jersey

Multivariate Markov Random Field Models for Assessing Regional Climate Model Output
Stephan Sain, University of Colorado at Denver

Numerical and Statistical Approaches to Short-term Climate Prediction
Ramalingam Saravanan, Texas A&M University

A Computation Saving Jackknife Approach to Receptor Model Uncertainly Statements for Serially Correlated Data
Cliff Spiegelman and Eun Sug Park, Texas A&M University

Stochastic Downscaling of Precipitation: From Dry Events to Heavy Rainfalls
Mathieu Vrac, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement

Spatial Multivariate Processes with Skewed Marginals
Hao Zhang, Washington State University

Statistical Modeling of Multivariate Spatial-Temporal Data in a Forest Entomology Study
Jun Zhu, University of Wisconsin at Madison