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January 1999 Program in Spatial Statistics and Environmental Sciences (SSES) in the Department of Statistics established; Noel Cressie appointed as Director.
Winter Quarter 1999 PhD-level graduate course, Spatial Statistics, taught for the first time; offered in alternate years.
Spring Quarter 1999 Spatial and Environmental Statistics Seminar.
Autumn Quarter 1999 Spatial and Environmental Statistics Seminar.
November 1999 Program Assistant position created and filled by Terry England.
Winter Quarter 2000 Spatial and Environmental Statistics Seminar.
Spring Quarter 2000 MS-level graduate course, Environmental Statistics, taught for the first time; offered in alternate years.
May 2000 SSES Program organized the Workshop on Hierarchical Modeling in Environmental Statistics (WHIES) and the Short Course on Bayesian Hierarchical Statistics.
July 2000 Position Paper on Hierarchical Modeling in Environmental Statistics prepared and sent to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
July 2000 Statistical Computing Scientist position filled by Mark Irwin, who joined the Program (part-time) for project work.
Winter Quarter 2001 Environmental Data Seminar, 2001.
December 2001 PhD-level Spatial Statistics course approved as Stat 829, and MS-level Environmental Statistics course approved as Stat 662.
Winter Quarter 2002 Environmental Data Seminar, 2002.
Autumn Quarter 2002 DIscussion Group in Environmental Statistics (DIGES).
Winter Quarter 2003 DIscussion Group in Environmental Statistics (DIGES).
Spring Quarter 2003 DIscussion Group in Environmental Statistics (DIGES).
Autumn Quarter 2003 Assistant Professor position with major duties in the SSES Program filled by Catherine (Kate) Calder.
Winter Quarter 2004 Remote-Sensing Data Seminar, 2004.
Winter Quarter 2004 SSES Graduate Discussion Group in Environmental Statistics, 2004.
Spring Quarter 2004 SSES Graduate Discussion Group in Environmental Statistics, 2004.
September 2004 EPA STAR grant awarded through American Chemistry Council funding. The grant, "Sources to Biomarkers," involves major collaboration with researchers from the Battelle Memorial Institute.
October 2004 Kate Calder appointed Associate Director of the SSES Program.
Spring Quarter 2005 DIscussion Group in Environmental Statistics (DIGES).
Autumn Quarter 2005 Brown-bag seminar, Hongfei Li, OSU, "Assessing river health."
November 2005 Organizing Committee of MBI Workshop, "Uncertainty in Ecological Analysis," met in Columbus, OH, to plan the workshop program.
April 2006 MBI Workshop (co-organized and co-sponsored by SSES Program), "Uncertainty in Ecological Analysis."
Summer Quarter 2006 Brown-bag seminar, Shannon LaDeau, Smithsonian Institution, "Monitoring population effects of an emergent disease in wild birds."
Winter Quarter 2007 Environmental Exposure and Health Data (EEHD) Seminar, 2007.
Spring Quarter 2007 Brown-bag seminar, Birgir Hrafnkelsson, University of Iceland, "Bayesian modeling of spatially correlated extreme values."
Spring Quarter 2008 Quarter on Statistics and Climate Change, 2008.

Seminar, Shannon LaDeau, Smithsonian Institution and SSES Postdoc, "Spatial and temporal drivers of West Nile virus amplification and its consequences for native birds."
Summer Quarter 2008 "Program in Spatial Statistics and Environmental Sciences" becomes "Program in Spatial Statistics and Environmental Statistics"; we are still the SSES Program!
Winter Quarter 2009 Program in Spatial Statistics and Environmental Statistics celebrates its 10th Anniversary with a Seminar and Poster Session.
Winter Quarter 2009 Brown-bag seminar, Steve Sain, National Center for Atmospheric Research, "Statistical science at the National Center for Atmospheric Research."
Spring Quarter 2009 MS-level graduate course, Introduction to Spatial Statistics, taught for the first time; offered in alternate years.
Spring Quarter 2009 The exhibition, "Synchronous Objects for One Flat Thing, reproduced" (choreographed by William Forsythe) was curated by the Wexner Center for the Arts at OSU. One of the objects, "Statistical Counterpoint," was created by Noel Cressie, Hyowon Ban, Ola Ahlqvist, and the Synchronous Objects team.
Autumn Quarter 2009 Brown-bag seminar, Lili Zhuang, OSU, "Bayesian sample size estimation using soybean data."
Autumn Quarter 2009 Brown-bag seminar, Aritra Sengupta, OSU, "Incorporating location error in Kalman Filter updates - using data from fish tags."
Spring Quarter 2010 Brown-bag seminar, Mitsuhiro Tomosada, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Tokyo, Japan, "A prediction method of the global distribution of CO2 concentration: Introducing land cover information into non-stationary kriging."
Spring Quarter 2010 MS-level Introduction to Spatial Statistics course approved as Stat 631.
Spring Quarter 2010 Brown-bag seminar, Marc Mangel, University of California, Santa Cruz, "Scientific inference about compensatory reproductive responses, with application to strategic fisheries management."
Winter Quarter 2011 Brown-bag seminar, Emlyn Jones, CSIRO, Hobart, Australia, "A Bayesian hierarchical modelling approach to quantifying error in complex environmental models."
Spring Quarter 2011 SSES Lunch with Students and Affiliates.
SSES Advisors' Meeting.

Visitors
1999
Spring Hsin-Cheng Huang
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Summer Christopher Wikle
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
J. Andrew Royle
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services, Laurel, MD
Leandro Pardo
Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Kanti Mardia
University of Leeds, England
Hsin-Cheng Huang
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
2000
Winter Christopher Wikle
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
Hsin-Cheng Huang
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Spring Leo Knorr-Held
Imperial College, London
Summer Christopher Wikle
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
J. Andrew Royle
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services, Laurel, MD
Hsin-Cheng Huang
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Autumn Hal Stern
Iowa State University, Ames, IA
2001
Winter Christopher Wikle
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
J. Andrew Royle
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services, Laurel, MD
Jay Ver Hoef
Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Fairbanks, AK
Francisco Martinez
University of Valencia, Spain
Stephan Sain
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
Spring Hsin-Cheng Huang
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Stephan Sain
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
Summer J. Andrew Royle
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services, Laurel, MD
Autumn Douglas Nychka
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO
John Kornak
University of California, San Francisco, CA
2002
Winter Christopher Wikle
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
J. Andrew Royle
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Laurel, MD
Hsin-Cheng Huang
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Spring Thomas Windholz
University of Maine, Orono, ME
Summer Hsin-Cheng Huang
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Isobel Clark
Geostokos Ltd, Scotland
Autumn Robin Milne
University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
2003
Winter Catherine Calder
Duke University, Durham, NC
Murali Haran
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Christopher Wikle
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
Spring Victor De Oliveira
University of Arkansas, Fayettville, AR
Margaret Short
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Summer Isobel Clark
Geostokos Ltd, Scotland
2004
Winter Olivier Perrin
University of Toulouse 1, Toulouse, France
Spring Michael Stein
University of Chicago, IL
Summer Alexander Kukush
Kiev National University, Ukraine
Autumn Reinhard Furrer
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO
Don Percival
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Christopher Wikle
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
2005
Winter Tao Shi
University of California, Berkeley, CA
Nicolas Verzelen
University of Paris, Paris, France
Lionel Cucala
University of Toulouse 1, Toulouse, France
Luc Anselin
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL
Spring Gardar Johannesson
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, Livermore, CA
Summer Yongtao Guan
University of Miami, Miami, FL
Edward Gbur
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
Autumn James Clark
Duke University, Durham, NC
Jay Ver Hoef
National Marine Mammal Laboratory, Seattle, WA
Christopher Wikle
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
2006
Winter Christopher Wikle
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
Radu Herbei
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Desheng Liu
University of California Berkeley, CA
Eun-Hye (Enki) Yoo
University of California Santa Barbara, CA
Mevin Hooten
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
Spring Participants of the MBI Workshop, "Uncertainty in Ecological Analysis"
Stewart Fotheringham
National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland
Autumn Jennifer Hoeting
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
2007
Winter Amy Braverman
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Spring Birgir Hrafnkelsson
University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland
Autumn Steve Sain
NCAR, Boulder, CO
2008
Spring Amy Braverman
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
John Parslow
CSIRO, Australia
Christopher Wikle
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
Autumn Rajib Paul
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
2009
Winter Rajib Paul
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
David O'Donnell
University of Glasgow, Scotland
Spring Amy Braverman
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Steve Sain
NCAR, Boulder CO
David O'Donnell
University of Glasgow, Scotland
Summer Rajib Paul
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
Autumn Anna Michalak
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Dorit Hammerling
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2010
Spring Mitsuhiro Tomosada
Central Research Institute of Electric
Power Industry, Tokyo, Japan
Marc Mangel
University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
Amy Braverman
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Hai Nguyen
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Martin Tingley
SAMSI, Raleigh, NC
Dorit Hammerling
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Summer Amy Braverman
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
2011
Winter Emlyn Jones
CSIRO, Hobart, Australia
Amy Braverman
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Hai Nguyen
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Spring Petra Kuhnert
CSIRO, Adelaide, Australia
Christopher Wikle
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO

Previous Personnel
Birgir Hrafnkelsson, Postdoctoral Researcher, 1999 - 2000
Andrew Mugglin, Postdoctoral Researcher, 1999 - 2000
David Wendt, Postdoctoral Researcher, 2000 - 2001
John Kornak, Postdoctoral Researcher, 2002 - 2003
Mark Irwin, Statistical Computing Scientist, 2000 - 2003
Chunfeng Huang, Postdoctoral Researcher, 2005 - 2007
Shannon LaDeau, Postdoctoral Researcher, 2006 - 2008
Catherine Calder, Associate Director, 2004 - 2009

Past Grants

EPA: Workshop on Hierarchical Modeling in Environmental Statistics, 2000 (PI: N. Cressie)
ONR: Statistical Inference for Change-of-Aperture Problems in Command and Control, 1999 - 2002 (PI: N. Cressie); continued as Spatial Statistics for Command and Control, 2002-2005 (PI: N. Cressie)
EPA: Hierarchical Statistical Analysis of Global and Regional Environmental Data, 1999 - 2002 (PI: N. Cressie; Co PIs: L. M. Berliner and C. Wikle)
NASA: Bayesian Hierarchical Air-Sea Interaction Modeling: Application to the Labrador Sea, 2000 - 2002 (PIs: L. M. Berliner, R. Milliff, P. Niiler, and C. Wikle)
NSF: Statistical Analysis of Uncertainty in Climate Change, 2002 - 2006 (PI: L. M. Berliner; Co PIs: C. Wikle and R. Levine)
NSF: Dynamics of Ice Streams: A Physical Statistical Approach, 2002 - 2006 (PI: N. Cressie; Co PIs: L. M. Berliner and K. Jezek)
ONR: Optimal Mapping When Datasets are Massive, 2004 - 2007 (PI: N. Cressie)
ORNL: Statistical Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Models with Application to Sensor Networks, 2005 - 2007 (PI: T. Hsing; Co PI: N. Cressie)
NSF: Segregation and Local Crime: An Integrated Spatial Analysis, 2005 - 2008 (PI: R. Peterson; Co PIs: C. Browning, C. Calder, L. Krivo, and M.-P. Kwan)
ACC: From Sources to Biomarkers: A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach for Human Exposure Modeling, 2004 - 2009 (PI: N. Cressie; Co PIs: C. Calder, P. Craigmile, and T. Santner)
NSF: Spatial Prediction of Surfaces in the Presence of Uncertainty, 2007 - 2009 (PI: N. Cressie)
UCAR: Spatial Random Effects and Multiresolution Lattice Models, 2007 - 2009 (PI: N. Cressie)
ONR: Uncertainties on Networks, 2008 - 2011 (PI: N. Cressie)
NASA: Mapping Global CO2: Development and Application of Geostatistical Algorithms for Gap Filling and Uncertainty Assessment for the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, 2008 - 2011 (Co PI: N. Cressie)