Basic information

Part of the 2009 SAMSI Program on Space-time Analysis for Environmental Mapping, Epidemiology and Climate Change
Meeting time/location: Wednesday, 1:00pm - 2:45pm, SAMSI, Room 150
Leaders: Sudipto Banerjee
Webmaster: Veronica Berrocal
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Announcements

12/02/2009: No meeting, however subgroups are encouraged to meet.

11/19/2009: No meeting on 11/25/2009.

11/11/2009: Email from NCDC about possible collaboration.

11/11/2009: No meeting this week! Next meeting 11/18/2009.

11/10/2009: List of members of each subgroup within the working group.

Goals and outcomes for the working group

This is the Goals and Outcomes document that has been compiled based upon feedback from members of the working group.

Potential subgroups within the working group

We will be splitting into subgroups. Here is a list of potential subgroups.

There are a series of workshops and projects that might be of interest to this working group.

Projects

Possible collaboration with NASA and Amy Braverman (see email from Jim Berger for more details)
Possible collaboration with NCDC (see email from Jim Berger for more details)

Workshops

Geomed 2009 conference on geomedical systems: Charleston, South Carolina, November 14-16, 2009.
Climate Workshop: February 17-19, 2010 (see email from Jim Berger for more details)
SAMSI/SPRUCE Environmental Risk Workshop: April 7-9, 2010 (see email from Jim Berger for more details)
TIES (The International Environmentrics Society) Meeting: Margarita Island, Venezuela, June 20-25, 2010.

Meeting activities

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Date	Topics and Readings	Notes
11/18/2009	Sampling design: G. Spöck and J. Pilz (2009) Y. Dou et al. (2007)	Presentations by Jürgen Pilz, Gunter Spöck and Yiping Dou
10/28/2009	Future direction of the working group and potential subgroups: list of potential subgroups list of members of each subgroup Goals and Outcomes of the working group
10/21/2009	Preferential sampling and presence-only data: 1. S. J. Phillips et al. (2006) 2. G. Ward et al. (2008)	Presentation by Avishek Chakraborty
10/14/2009	Sampling design: G. Xia et al. (2006)	Presentation by Alan Gelfand
10/07/2009	Preferential sampling Calibration of numerical models	Presentation by Ana Rappold
09/30/2009	Preferential sampling	Presentation by Jo Eidsvik Presentation by Jarrett Barber and Pritam Gupta
09/23/2009	Preferential sampling: 1. P. Diggle et al. (2009) 2. B. Reich and D. Bandyopadhyay (2009) 3. A. Nail et al. (2009) 4. L. P. Ho and D. Stoyan (2008) 5. N. Loperfido and P. Guttorp (2008)	Presentations by Brian Reich, Amy Nail and Avishek Chakraborty More material in the Meeting Summary page
09/17/2009	Introductory meeting

Group members

E-mail alias for the group is sp-geo AT samsi.info

Name	Affiliation	E-mail address
Sudipto Banerjee	University of Minnesota	sudiptob AT biostat DOT umn DOT edu
Jarrett Barber	University of Wyoming	jbarber AT uwyo DOT edu
Francisco M Beltran	University of California Santa Cruz	beltran63 AT gmail DOT com
Candice Berrett	Ohio State University	cberrett AT stat DOT osu DOT edu
Veronica Berrocal	SAMSI	vjb2 AT stat DOT duke DOT edu
Avishek Chakraborty	Duke University	ac103 AT stat DOT duke DOT edu
Howard Chang	SAMSI	hhchang AT jhsph DOT edu
David Conesa	University De Valencia	David.V.Conesa AT uv DOT es
Sourish Das	SAMSI	sourish.das AT stat DOT duke DOT edu
Dipak Dey	University of Connecticut	dipak.dey AT uconn DOT edu
Yiping Dou	University of British Columbia	ydou AT stat DOT ubc DOT ca
David Dunson	Duke University	dunson AT stat DOT duke DOT edu
Jo Eidsvik	Norwegian University of Science and Technology	joeid AT math DOT ntnu DOT no
Andrew Finley	Michigan State University	finleya AT msu DOT edu
Alan Gelfand	Duke University	alan AT stat DOT duke DOT edu
Michele Guindani	University of New Mexico	michele AT stat DOT unm DOT edu
Prtitam Gupta	University of Wyoming	pgupta1 AT uwyo DOT edu
Sandra Hurtado Rua	University of Connecticut	shurtado AT stat DOT uconn DOT edu
Janine Illian	University of St. Andrews	janine AT mcs DOT st-and DOT ac DOT uk
Karen Kafadar	Indiana University	kkafadar AT indiana DOT edu
Hannes Kazianka	University of Klagenfurt	Hannes.Kazianka AT uni-klu DOT ad DOT at
David Kessler	University of North Carolina	dkessler AT bios DOT unc DOT edu
Kenny Lopiano	University of Florida	klopiano AT ufl DOT edu
Gabriele Martinelli	Norwegian University of Science and Technology	gabriele.martinelli AT math DOT ntnu DOT no
Amy Nail	EPA	nail.amy AT epa DOT gov
Orietta Nicolis	University of Bergamo	orietta.nicolis AT unibg DOT it
Garritt Page	Duke University	page AT stat DOT duke DOT edu
Juergen Pilz	University of Klagenfurt	juergen.pilz AT uni-klu DOT ac DOT at
Ana Rappold	EPA	rappold.ana AT epa DOT gov
Brian Reich	North Carolina State University	reich AT stat DOT ncsu DOT edu
Huiyan Sang	Texas A&M University	huiyan AT stat DOT tamu DOT edu
Alexandra Schmidt	University Federal do Rio de Janeiro	alex AT im DOT ufrj DOT br
Ron Smith	Centre for Ecology and Economics	ris AT ceh DOT ac DOT uk
Gunter Spöck	University of Klagenfurt	Gunter.Spoeck AT uni-klu DOT ac DOT at
Ingelin Steinsland	Norwegian University of Science and Technology	ingelins AT math DOT ntnu DOT no
Jay Ver Hoef	NOAA	jay.verhoef AT noaa DOT gov
Linda Young	University of Florida	LJYoung AT ufl DOT edu
Chengwei Yuan	University of New Hampshire	cw.yuan AT unh DOT edu
Jing Zhang	Miami University	zhangj8 AT muohio DOT edu
Zhengyuan Zhu	Iowa State University	zhuz AT iastate DOT edu
James Zidek	University of British Columbia	jim AT stat DOT ubc DOT ca

Reference list

Banerjee, S., Gelfand, A. E., Finley, A. O., and Sang, H. (2008), Gaussian predictive process models for large spatial data sets, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B, 70, 825-848. pdf
Caussinus, H. and Mestre, O. (2004), Detection and correction of artificial shifts in climate series, Applied Statistics, 53, 405-425. pdf
DeGaetano, A. T. (2006), Attributes of several methods for detecting discontinuities in mean temperature series, Journal of Climate, 19, 838-853. pdf
DellaMarta, P. M. and Wanner, H. (2006), A Method for homogenizing the extremes and mean of daily temperature measurements, Journal of Climate, 19, 4179-4197. pdf
Diggle, P. and Lophaven, S. (2005), Bayesian geostatistical design, Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 33, 53-64. pdf
Diggle, P., Menezes R., and Su, T. (2009), Geostatistical inference under preferential sampling, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Ser. C, In press. [pdf ]
Dou, Y., Le, N., and Zidek, J. (2007), A dynamic linear model for ozone concentrations, Technical Report 228, Department of Statistics, The University of British Columbia. pdf
Ho, L. P. and Stoyan, D. (2008), Modelling marked point patterns by intensity-marked Cox processes, Statistics and Probability Letters, 78, 1194–1199. [pdf ]
Kazianka, H. and Pilz, J. (2009), Copula-based geostatistical modeling of continuous and discrete data including covariates, Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, DOI 10.1007/s00477-009-0353-8. [pdf ]
Loperfido, N. and Guttorp, P. (2008), Network bias in air quality monitoring design, Environmetrics, 19, 661–671. [pdf ]
Lu, Q. and Lund, R. B., and Lee, T. C. (2009), An MDL approach to the climate segmentation problem, Annals of Applied Statistics, In press. pdf
Menne, M. J. and Williams, C. N. Jr. (2009), Homogenization of temperature series via pairwise comparisons, Journal of Climate, 22, 1700-1717. pdf
Menne, M.J., Williams, C. N. Jr., and Vose, R. S. (2009), The United States Historical Climatology Network serial monthly temperature data –Version 2, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 90, 993-1007. pdf
Phillips, S. J., Anderson, R. P., and Schapire, R. E. (2006), Maximum entropy modeling of species geographic distributions, Ecological Modeling, 190, 231-259. pdf
Rue, H., Martino, S., and Chopin, N. (2009), Approximate Bayesian inference for latent Gaussian model by using integrated nested Laplace approximation, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B, 71 (2), 319-392. pdf
Spöck, G. and Pilz, J. (2009), Spatial sampling design and covariance-robust minimax prediction based on convex design ideas, Stoch Environ Res Risk Assess, DOI 10.1007/s00477-009-0334-y. [pdf ]
Xia, G., Miranda, M. L., and Gelfand, A. E. (2006), Approximately optimal spatial design approaches for environmental health data, Environmetrics, 17, 363-385. [pdf ]
Ward, G., Hastie, T., Barry, S., Elith, J., and Leathwick, J.R. (2009), Presence-only data and the EM algorithm, Biometrics, 65, 554-563. pdf

Data sites

None at present time.

Subgroups

Ozone Process Modeling

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