Dan Cooley Assistant Professor Department of Statistics Colorado State University

Contact Information:

Fall 2007 Courses:

Information for both courses can be found on RamCT.

Schedule:

CSU: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays
NCAR: Thursdays

Biographical Information

I am a first year assistant professor in the statistics department at Colorado State University. As a postdoc, I was associated with the Geophysical Statistics Project at NCAR and continue to work with them. Currently, I am working on projects related to extreme value theory and spatial data sets.

I met my wife Tina in 1998, and we were married in June of 2002. We live in Ft. Collins with our son Ethan and dog Molly, and like to bicycle, hike, swim, and generally be outdoors.

Research

Publications

• Cooley D., Davis R., Naveau P. (2007). Prediction for Max-Stable Processes via an Approximated Conditional Density Submitted. manuscript(pdf)
• Naveau P., Poncet P. and Cooley D. (2007) First-order variograms for extreme bivariate random vectors. Submitted for review.
• Naveau P., Guillou A., Cooley D., Diebolt J. (2006). Modeling Pairwise Dependence of Maxima in Space. Submitted for review.
• Naveau P., Jomelli V., Cooley D., Rabatel A. (2007). Modeling Uncertainties in Lichenometry Studies Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 39:277-285.
• Cooley D., Nychka D., Naveau P. (2007) Bayesian Spatial Modeling of Extreme Precipitation Return Levels Journal of the American Statistical Association,, 102:824-840. manuscript(pdf) appendix(pdf)
• Jomelli V., Grancher D., Naveau P., Cooley D., Brunstein, D. (2007). Assessment Study of Lichenometric Methods for Dating Surfaces. Geomorphology, 86:131-143.
• Cooley D., Naveau P. and Jomelli V. (2006) A Bayesian Hierarchical Extreme Value Model for Lichenometry. Environmetrics, 17:555-574. manuscript(pdf)
• Cooley D., Naveau P., Poncet P. (2006). Variograms for spatial max-stable random fields In Dependence in Probability and Statistics, edited by Bertail P., Doukhan P., Soulier P.; Springer Lecture Notes in Statistics #187.
• Cooley D. (2005). Statistical Analysis of Extremes Motivated by Weather and Climate Studies; Applied and Theoretical Advances. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Applied Mathematics; October 2005. thesis(pdf)
• Naveau P., Nogaj M., Ammann C., Yiou P., Cooley D. and Jomelli V. (2005). Statistical Analysis of Climate Extremes. Comptes rendus Geosciences de l'Academie des Sciences 337:1013-1022.
• Cooley D., Jomelli V., Naveau P. (2004). Spatio-temporal Analysis of Extreme Values from Lichenometric Studies and their Relationships to Climate in Proceedings of The International Environmetrics Society Conference 2004. Portland, Maine.

Some Recent Presentations

• Estimating Dependence and Performing Prediction for Max-stable Random Fields
  • University of Wyoming, Nov 9, 2007.
  • Brigham Young University, Nov 1, 2007.
• Prediction for max-stable processes via an approximated conditional density; SAMSI, Research Triangle Park, NC; Program on Risk Analysis, Extreme Events, and Decision Theory; Kickoff Workshop; September 17, 2007.
• Spatial characterization of extreme meteorological events; climate and weather effects 10th International Meeting on Statistical Climatology; Beijing China; August 2007. slides(pdf)
• Modeling Extremes from Regional Climate Model Simulations; Joint Statistical Meetings, Salt Lake City UT; Topic Contributed Session: The role of statistics in ecological and climate modeling; July 31, 2007.
• Prediction for max-stable processes via an approximated conditional density; EVA 2007; Bern, Switzerland, July 23, 2007. slides(pdf)
• Toward Spatial Prediction in Max-stable Random Fields Colorado School of Mines, Golden CO; November 17, 2006. slides(pdf)
• Spatial Dependence Estimation and Prediction for Extremes Multivariate Methods in Environmetrics; Chicago IL; October 27, 2006. poster(pdf)
• Bayesian Modeling of Extreme Precipitation Return Levels Texas A&M University, College Station TX; September 21, 2006.
• Dependence and Spatial Prediction in Max-stable Random Fields
  • 2006 International Workshop on Applied Probability; Storrs CT; May 15, 2006. slides(pdf)
  • Joint Statistical Meetings, Seattle WA; Topic Contributed Session: Statistics of Extremes; Aug 10, 2006.
• Bayesian Modeling of Extreme Precipitation Return Levels IMS session on Spatio Temporal Statistics; ENAR, Tampa FL; March 27, 2006
• An Extreme Precipitation Atlas for Colorado's Front Range; Hydrology Days, CSU; March 20, 2006

updated 22 Aug 2007