Statistics and the Environment
Section Congratulates Awardees
Jun Zhu, ENVR Publications Chair
D
uring our section’s business
meeting and mixer at JSM this Upcoming Conferences
year in washington, DC, our
section chair, Gretchen Moisen, present- The International Environmetrics Society (TIES) Meeting
ed several awards.
Margarita Island, Venezuela, June 20–25, 2010
The theme for the meeting is “Evaluating Our Environment Under Changing
JSM Presentation Award
Conditions: Methods and Challenges.” A call for papers will be out soon.
Jonathon Hobbs, a PhD candidate at
Iowa State University, won the JSM International Statistical Ecology Conference
Presentation Award for his talk, “Large-
Kent, England, July 2010
Scale Structure in Multiparameter
www.creem.st-and.ac.uk/isec2010/index.html
Markov Random Field Models,” which
was presented during JSM 2008.
Joint Statistical Meetings
The 2009 JSM Presentation Award
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 31–August 5, 2010
was given to Joel Reynolds, a region-
www.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2010/index.cfm
al biometrician at the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service in Anchorage, Alaska,
for his talk, “Effective and Efficient
Monitoring of Steller’s Eiders at Izembek
Lagoon, Alaska: Barriers and Pitfalls.”
This award will be presented during next
year’s JSM in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Young Investigator Award
This year’s winner of the Young
Investigator Award is Andrew O. Finley
of Michigan State University for innova-
tive research on hierarchical spatial mod-
els for large natural resources databases,
optimization and application of near-
est neighbors techniques for use with
remotely sensed and ecological data, and
software algorithm development.
Distinguished Achievement
Award
This year’s winner of the Distinguished
Achievement Award is William F.
Christensen of Brigham Young University
for promotion of undergraduate research
in environmental statistics, outstanding
record of collaboration with environ-
mental scientists, innovative research
on receptor modeling and pollution
source apportionment, and service to
the profession.
If you have ideas about topic-contrib-
uted sessions, contact ENVR Program
Chair Petrutza Caragea at pcaragea@
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