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Photo Gallery
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Timelines
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January 1999
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Program in Spatial Statistics and Environmental Sciences (SSES) in the
Department of Statistics established; Noel Cressie appointed as Director.
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Winter Quarter 1999
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PhD-level graduate course, Spatial
Statistics, taught for the first time; offered
in alternate years.
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Spring Quarter 1999
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Spatial and Environmental Statistics Seminar.
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Autumn Quarter 1999
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Spatial and Environmental Statistics Seminar.
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November 1999
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Program Assistant position created and
filled by Terry England.
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Winter Quarter 2000
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Spatial and Environmental Statistics Seminar.
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Spring Quarter 2000
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MS-level graduate course, Environmental Statistics, taught for the first
time; offered in alternate years.
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May 2000
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SSES Program organized the Workshop on Hierarchical
Modeling in Environmental Statistics (WHIES) and the
Short Course on Bayesian Hierarchical
Statistics.
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July 2000
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Position Paper on Hierarchical
Modeling in Environmental Statistics prepared and sent to U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency.
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July 2000
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Statistical Computing Scientist
position filled by Mark Irwin, who joined the Program (part-time) for project
work.
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Winter Quarter 2001
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Environmental Data Seminar, 2001.
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December 2001
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PhD-level
Spatial Statistics course approved as
Stat 829, and MS-level Environmental
Statistics course approved as Stat 662.
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Winter Quarter 2002
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Environmental Data Seminar,
2002.
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Autumn Quarter 2002
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DIscussion Group in Environmental
Statistics (DIGES).
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Winter Quarter 2003
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DIscussion Group in Environmental
Statistics (DIGES).
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Spring Quarter 2003
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DIscussion Group in Environmental
Statistics (DIGES).
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Autumn Quarter 2003
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Assistant Professor position with major duties in the SSES Program
filled by Catherine (Kate) Calder.
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Winter Quarter 2004
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Remote-Sensing Data Seminar, 2004.
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Winter Quarter 2004
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SSES Graduate Discussion Group in Environmental Statistics, 2004.
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Spring Quarter 2004
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SSES Graduate Discussion Group in Environmental Statistics, 2004.
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September 2004
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EPA STAR grant awarded through American Chemistry Council
funding. The grant, "Sources to Biomarkers," involves major
collaboration with researchers from the Battelle Memorial Institute.
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October 2004
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Kate Calder appointed Associate Director of the SSES Program.
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Spring Quarter 2005
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DIscussion Group in Environmental
Statistics (DIGES).
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Autumn Quarter 2005
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Brown-bag seminar, Hongfei Li, OSU, "Assessing river health."
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November 2005
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Organizing Committee of MBI Workshop, "Uncertainty in Ecological
Analysis," met in Columbus, OH, to plan the workshop program.
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April 2006
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MBI Workshop (co-organized and co-sponsored by SSES Program),
"Uncertainty in Ecological Analysis."
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Summer Quarter 2006
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Brown-bag seminar, Shannon LaDeau, Smithsonian Institution,
"Monitoring population effects of an emergent disease in wild birds."
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Winter Quarter 2007
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Environmental Exposure and Health Data (EEHD) Seminar, 2007.
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Spring Quarter 2007
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Brown-bag seminar, Birgir Hrafnkelsson, University of Iceland,
"Bayesian modeling of spatially correlated extreme values."
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Spring Quarter 2008
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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."
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Summer Quarter 2008
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"Program in Spatial Statistics and Environmental Sciences" becomes
"Program in Spatial Statistics and Environmental Statistics"; we are
still the SSES Program!
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Winter Quarter 2009
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Program in Spatial Statistics and Environmental Statistics celebrates
its 10th Anniversary with
a Seminar and Poster Session.
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Winter Quarter 2009
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Brown-bag seminar, Steve Sain, National Center for Atmospheric Research,
"Statistical science at the National Center for Atmospheric Research."
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Spring Quarter 2009
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MS-level graduate course, Introduction to Spatial Statistics,
taught for the first time; offered in alternate years.
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Spring Quarter 2009
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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.
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Autumn Quarter 2009
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Brown-bag seminar, Lili Zhuang, OSU,
"Bayesian sample size estimation using soybean data."
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Autumn Quarter 2009
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Brown-bag seminar, Aritra Sengupta, OSU,
"Incorporating location error in Kalman Filter updates - using
data from fish tags."
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Spring Quarter 2010
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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."
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Spring Quarter 2010
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MS-level Introduction to Spatial
Statistics course approved as Stat 631.
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Spring Quarter 2010
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Brown-bag seminar, Marc Mangel, University of California, Santa Cruz,
"Scientific inference about compensatory reproductive responses,
with application to strategic fisheries management."
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Winter Quarter 2011
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Brown-bag seminar, Emlyn Jones, CSIRO, Hobart, Australia,
"A Bayesian hierarchical modelling approach to quantifying error
in complex environmental models."
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Spring Quarter 2011
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SSES Lunch with Students and Affiliates.
SSES Advisors' Meeting.
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Visitors
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1999
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Spring
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Hsin-Cheng Huang
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
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Summer
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Christopher Wikle
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
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J. Andrew Royle
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services, Laurel, MD
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Leandro Pardo
Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
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Kanti Mardia
University of Leeds, England
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Hsin-Cheng Huang
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
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2000
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Winter
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Christopher Wikle
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
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Hsin-Cheng Huang
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
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Spring
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Leo Knorr-Held
Imperial College, London
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Summer
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Christopher Wikle
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
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J. Andrew Royle
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services, Laurel, MD
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Hsin-Cheng Huang
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
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Autumn
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Hal Stern
Iowa State University, Ames, IA
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2001
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Winter
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Christopher Wikle
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
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J. Andrew Royle
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services, Laurel, MD
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Jay Ver Hoef
Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Fairbanks, AK
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Francisco Martinez
University of Valencia, Spain
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Stephan Sain
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
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Spring
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Hsin-Cheng Huang
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
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Stephan Sain
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
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Summer
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J. Andrew Royle
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services, Laurel, MD
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Autumn
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Douglas Nychka
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO
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John Kornak
University of California, San Francisco, CA
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2002
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Winter
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Christopher Wikle
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
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J. Andrew Royle
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Laurel, MD
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Hsin-Cheng Huang
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
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Spring
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Thomas Windholz
University of Maine, Orono, ME
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Summer
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Hsin-Cheng Huang
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
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Isobel Clark
Geostokos Ltd, Scotland
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Autumn
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Robin Milne
University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
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2003
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Winter
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Catherine Calder
Duke University, Durham, NC
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Murali Haran
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
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Christopher Wikle
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
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Spring
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Victor De Oliveira
University of Arkansas, Fayettville, AR
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Margaret Short
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
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Summer
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Isobel Clark
Geostokos Ltd, Scotland
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2004
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Winter
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Olivier Perrin
University of Toulouse 1,
Toulouse, France
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Spring
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Michael Stein
University of Chicago, IL
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Summer
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Alexander Kukush
Kiev National University, Ukraine
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Autumn
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Reinhard Furrer
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO
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Don Percival
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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Christopher Wikle
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
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2005
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Winter
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Tao Shi
University of California,
Berkeley, CA
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Nicolas Verzelen
University of Paris, Paris, France
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Lionel Cucala
University of Toulouse 1, Toulouse, France
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Luc Anselin
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL
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Spring
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Gardar Johannesson
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, Livermore, CA
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Summer
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Yongtao Guan
University of Miami, Miami, FL
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Edward Gbur
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
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Autumn
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James Clark
Duke University, Durham, NC
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Jay Ver Hoef
National Marine Mammal Laboratory, Seattle, WA
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Christopher Wikle
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
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2006
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Winter
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Christopher Wikle
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
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Radu Herbei
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
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Desheng Liu
University of California Berkeley, CA
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Eun-Hye (Enki) Yoo
University of California Santa Barbara, CA
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Mevin Hooten
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
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Spring
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Participants of the MBI Workshop, "Uncertainty in Ecological Analysis"
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Stewart Fotheringham
National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland
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Autumn
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Jennifer Hoeting
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
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2007
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Winter
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Amy Braverman
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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Spring
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Birgir Hrafnkelsson
University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland
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Autumn
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Steve Sain
NCAR, Boulder, CO
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2008
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Spring
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Amy Braverman
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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John Parslow
CSIRO, Australia
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Christopher Wikle
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
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Autumn
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Rajib Paul
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
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2009
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Winter
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Rajib Paul
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
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David O'Donnell
University of Glasgow, Scotland
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Spring
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Amy Braverman
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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Steve Sain
NCAR, Boulder CO
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David O'Donnell
University of Glasgow, Scotland
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Summer
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Rajib Paul
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
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Autumn
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Anna Michalak
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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Dorit Hammerling
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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2010
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Spring
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Mitsuhiro Tomosada
Central Research Institute of Electric
Power Industry, Tokyo, Japan
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Marc Mangel
University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
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Amy Braverman
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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Hai Nguyen
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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Martin Tingley
SAMSI, Raleigh, NC
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Dorit Hammerling
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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Summer
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Amy Braverman
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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2011
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Winter
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Emlyn Jones
CSIRO, Hobart, Australia
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Amy Braverman
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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Hai Nguyen
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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Spring
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Petra Kuhnert
CSIRO, Adelaide, Australia
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Christopher Wikle
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
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Previous Personnel
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Birgir Hrafnkelsson, Postdoctoral Researcher, 1999 - 2000
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Andrew Mugglin, Postdoctoral Researcher, 1999 - 2000
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David Wendt, Postdoctoral Researcher, 2000 - 2001
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John Kornak, Postdoctoral Researcher, 2002 - 2003
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Mark Irwin, Statistical Computing Scientist, 2000 - 2003
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Chunfeng Huang, Postdoctoral Researcher, 2005 - 2007
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Shannon LaDeau, Postdoctoral Researcher, 2006 - 2008
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Catherine Calder, Associate Director, 2004 - 2009
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Past Grants
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EPA:
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Workshop on Hierarchical Modeling in Environmental Statistics, 2000
(PI: N. Cressie)
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ONR:
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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)
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EPA: | Hierarchical Statistical
Analysis of Global and Regional Environmental Data, 1999 - 2002
(PI: N. Cressie; Co PIs: L. M. Berliner and C. Wikle)
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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)
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NSF: | Statistical Analysis of Uncertainty in Climate Change,
2002 - 2006 (PI: L. M. Berliner; Co PIs: C. Wikle and R. Levine)
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NSF: | Dynamics of Ice Streams: A Physical Statistical Approach,
2002 - 2006 (PI: N. Cressie; Co PIs: L. M. Berliner and K. Jezek)
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ONR: | Optimal Mapping When
Datasets are Massive,
2004 - 2007 (PI: N. Cressie)
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ORNL: |
Statistical Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Models with
Application to Sensor Networks,
2005 - 2007 (PI: T. Hsing; Co PI: N. Cressie)
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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)
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ACC:
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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)
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NSF:
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Spatial Prediction of Surfaces in the Presence of Uncertainty,
2007 - 2009 (PI: N. Cressie)
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UCAR: |
Spatial Random Effects and Multiresolution Lattice Models, 2007 - 2009
(PI: N. Cressie)
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ONR:
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Uncertainties on Networks, 2008 - 2011
(PI: N. Cressie)
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NASA:
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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)
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