SECTION NEWS
Statistics and the Environment
Second Call for Nominations
Distinguished Achievement Award and Young Investigator Award
Jun Zhu, ENVR Publications Chair
N
ominations are needed for the ENVR Distinguished and a clear statement for which of the two awards the nominee
Achievement Award and the brand new ENVR should be considered.
Young Investigator Award. Both are given in recog- If being considered for the Young Achievement Award, sub-
nition of outstanding contributions to the development of mit the birth date of the nominee. The committee will use the
methods, issues, concepts, applications, and initiatives of “Jonathanian” method for calculating the age of the nominee.
environmental statistics. The Young Investigators Award is Nominations must be received by March 15, 2009. The
meant to encourage and recognize younger members of the nomination may be submitted electronically as a PDF docu-
environmental statistics community. We use a broad defini- ment (preferred) or as a Word file to Lance A. Waller, past
tion of environmental statistics—from theoretical/founda- section chair, at lwaller@sph.emory.edu. If submitted as a hard
tional through applications and policy—and seek to recog- copy, send the original and five copies to Waller, Department
nize the full range of activities of academic, government, of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Rollins School of Public
and industrial statisticians and scientists engaged in statistics Health, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta,
and the environment. Environmental statistics is interdisci- GA 30322.
plinary, and outstanding contributions may occur outside of The Committee on Distinguished Achievement Awards and
traditional niches. Young Investigator Awards will make the selection, and suc-
The criteria for receiving a Distinguished Achievement cessful nominees will receive their awards at the ENVR busi-
Award include the following: ness meeting and reception during the 2009 Joint Statistical
—Having made distinguished contributions to environmen-
Meetings in Washington, DC. Questions regarding the award
tal statistics
should be addressed to Waller at lwaller@sph.emory.edu. ■
—Having been a member of ENVR for at least the three
years prior to June 1, 2008
—Having not been a recipient from a previous year (see
www.amstat-online.org/sections/envr/ssedaap.html)
For the Young Investigators Award, the criteria include:
ATTENTION
—Having made distinguished contributions to environmen-
tal statistics
SEC TION
—Being a current member of ENVR
OFFICERS
—Having not been a recipient from a previous year (see
www.amstat-online.org/sections/envr/ssedaap.html)
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—Having not reached his or her 41st birthday during the cal-
and events through the
endar year of the award. In the special case of an individual ASA’s online Calendar of Events.
who has received his or her terminal degree in statistics fewer
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than 12 years prior to the nomination deadline, a nominee will
www.amstat.org/dateline
be eligible who has not yet reached his or her 46th birthday
during the calendar year of the award.
For both awards, the committee considers only those mem-
bers for whom nominations are submitted. Committee mem-
bers do not offer nominations, themselves, but encourage you
to make a thorough search for good candidates.
For the 2009 competition, the nomination materials
should consist of a nomination letter featuring the nominee’s
contributions to environmental statistics, a CV for the nomi-
nee, (not to exceed five pages), up to three supporting letters,
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