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### Spring meeting summary ### Denver Articles in AMSTAT News ### Statistical issues in monitoring the environment workshop Oct. ### Statistics in Education ### Spring Meeting Summary Thanks to everyone who worked hard to make this year's spring meeting a success. We enjoyed good talks on a variety of topics. +++ New President-Elect Congratulations to Chris Nelson - the new President Elect for the Colorado/Wyoming Chapter. Chris is an adjunct professor at the University of Denver as well as an independent consultant. I will continue as president through the fall when Chris will take over. The officers will be meeting shortly to discuss future activities. These will include a survey to help solicit member's opinions. This online survey will be sent out shortly. Please take a moment to complete this survey. ### Articles in AMSTAT News In the most recent issue of AMSTAT news, there are two articles about the JSM this summer. +++ Day Trips around Denver - This article was written by members of local planning committee and describes day trips around the Denver area. . +++ Meeting within a Meeting - Teacher's workshop. This article describes the Meeting within a Meeting's teachers workshop. While the workshop is filling quickly, applications are still being accepted. Meeting planners are trying hard to accomadate more participants. ### "Statistical Issues in Monitoring the Environment" Workshop Oct 08 ENVR This workshop covers state-of-the-art applications and statistical methods in environmental monitoring. Sessions on applications include monitoring in ecology, monitoring in air quality, monitoring of aquatic resources, monitoring of climate change and its impacts. This workshop will be held at NCAR in Boulder. http://www.amstat-online.org/sections/envr/ ### Statistics for educators - the following couple of items relate to statistics and education. Recordings of web based talks can be found at the following link. These talks have been recorded as a follow-on activity from last year's Meeting within a Meeting Teacher's workshop. http://www.amstat.org/education/k12webinars/index.cfm?fuseaction=main Statistics Teacher Network For more information, see http://www.amstat-online.org/sections/envr/ The Statistics Teacher Network (STN) is a free newsletter published by the ASA/NCTM Joint Committee on Curriculum in Statistics and Probability for Grades K-12. After having taken a few months off, STN is alive and well and in a new electronic format! Visit STN issue 72 at www.amstat.org/education/stn. If you want to be informed of when future editions are available online, please subscribe to our new STN email list by sending an email message to listserv@mail.amstat.org with subscribe STN-L in the body. You will receive an email confirmation upon completion. Only the list moderator will send announcements to the list when new STN issues are available online. We will no longer be mailing paper copies of STN or postcards announcing new online STN issues. Thank you for you interest in STN and your continued interest in statistics education for grades K-12. Please inform your colleagues about STN, and we welcome your feedback on the new electronic format. As always, readers are encouraged to submit articles for publication. Please email STN Editor Derek Webb at dwebb@bemidjistate.edu. Jerry Moreno, Chair ASA/NCTM Joint Committee on Curriculum in Probability and Statistics for Grades K-12 moreno@jcu.edu _______________________________________________ Cowystats mailing list Cowystats@ucar.edu http://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cowystats |
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