June 16, Wednesday

8:00 AM to 4:30 PM (Weber Building, Colorado State University Campus)

One-day Short Course on “SPATIAL STATISTICS”
Presenter: Jay M. Ver Hoef, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Fairbanks, AK

8:00 AM to 8:30 AM Room 206, Weber Building, CSU campus

	Pick up book
	Coffee, juice, bagels and donuts

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM "SPATIAL STATISTICS" Room 206, Weber Building, CSU Campus

(lunch break from NOON to 1:30 PM)

7:00 PM Conference Registration at the University Park Holiday Inn (Pre Convention Area)

7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Graybill conference opening mixer (Oklahoma State Room)

7:00 PM to 9:00 PM POSTER VIEWING (Oklahoma State Room)
Poster Presenters: Please come to the Oklahoma State room around 6:45pm. Posters can be pinned to the wall with pins that will be supplied. Posters will remain in the Oklahoma State Room until after the afternoon break on Thursday.

June 17, Thursday

7:30 AM Conference Registration at University Park Holiday Inn (Pre Convention Area)

7:30 AM Coffee, Tea & Fruit, Yogurt, Rolls (Oklahoma State Room)

8:30 AM WELCOMING COMMENTS (Idaho/Michigan State Room)

8:45 AM Session I: SPATIAL MODELING IN EPIDEMIOLOGY (Idaho/Michigan State Room)
Organizer/Chair: Bradley Biggerstaff, Center for Disease Control, Fort Collins, CO

8:45 AM to 9:15 AM

Ronald Gangnon
Department of Biostatistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Spatial Cluster Detection Using Bayes Factors from Overparameterized Models

9:15 AM to 9:45 AM

Sudipto Banerjee
Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Bayesian Wombling: Estimating Spatial Gradients

9:45 AM to 10:15 PM

Lance Waller
Department of Biostatistics, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Exploring Spatio-temporal Patterns in Lyme Disease Incidence and Reporting, 1992-2000

10:15 AM to 10:45 AM BREAK (Oklahoma State Room)

10:45 AM to 12:00 NOON - Session II : KEYNOTE ADDRESS (Idaho/Michagan State Room)
Organizer/Chair: N. Scott Urquhart, Department of Statistics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

Noel Cressie, Director
Program in Spatial Statistics and Environmental Sciences
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Dynamic Multi-Resolution Spatial Models

12:00 PM to 1:00 PM LUNCH at the Holiday Inn (Atrium)

1:00 PM Session III: SPATIAL MODELING IN AQUATIC SYSTEMS (Idaho/Michigan State Room)
Chair: James C. Moore, US EPA National Center for Environmental Research, Washington, DC

1:00 PM to 1:30 PM

Don L. Stevens, Jr
Department of Statistics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Comparison of Design-Based and Model-Based Techniques for Selecting Spatially Balanced Samples of Environmental Resources

1:30 PM to 2:00 PM

Jay M. Ver Hoef¹, Erin Poston², and David M. Theobald³
¹Alaska Fish and Game, Fairbanks, AK
²Department of Geosciences
³Natural Resources Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Some New Spatial Statistical Models for Stream Networks

2:00 PM to 2:30 PM

                         Kerry J. Ritter¹, Molly Leecaster¹, and N. Scott Urquhart²                         ¹Southern California Coastal Water Research Project, Westminster, CA,
                         ²Department of Statistics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
                         Two-Phase Sampling Approach for Augmenting Fixed Grid Designs
                          to Improve Local Estimation for Mapping Aquatic Resources

2:30 PM to 3:00 PM              BREAK (Atrium)

3:00 PM Session IV: APPLICATIONS OF SPATIAL STATISTICS (Idaho/Michigan State Room)
Organizer/Chair: Hari Iyer, Department of Statistics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

3:00 PM to 3:30 PM

Gerald L. Anderson¹ and Kalman Peleg²
¹United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service Sidney, MT
²Agricultural Engineering Department, Technion Israel Inst. of Technology, Haifa 32000 Israel.
FFT Regression and Cross-Noise Reduction for Comparing Images in Remote Sensing

3:30 PM to 4:00 PM

John F. Shanahan and James S. Schepers
USDA-ARS, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
Characterization of Spatial Variability in Soil and Crop Properties in Agricultural Fields Using Spatial Statistical Methods

4:00 PM to 4:30 PM

Eric Gilleland, Doug Nychka and Uli Schneider
Geophysical Statistics Project, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO
Spatial models for the distribution of extremes

4:30 PM to 5:00 PM

Wendy Meiring
Department of Statistics, University of California, Santa Barbara
A Case Study of the Implications of Atmospheric Data Pre-processing Using "Correction Factors"

6:30 PM Pre-banquet Social and Cash Bar (Arizona/Oregon State Room)

7:00 PM Banquet (Arizona/Oregon State Room)

June 18, Friday

8:00 AM Coffee, Tea & Fruit, Yogurt, Danish (Atrium)

8:30 AM Session V: MARKOV MODELS IN SPATIAL STATISTICS (Idaho/Michigan State Room)
Chair: Jennifer Hoeting, Department of Statistics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

8:30 AM to 9:00 AM

Mark S. Kaiser, Petruta Caragea and Kyoji Furukawa
Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Centering the Effects of Neighbors in Markov Random Field Models

9:00 AM to 9:30 AM

Hsin-Cheng Huang¹, Jun Zhu², and Jungpin Wu³
¹Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
²Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin--Madison, and
³Department of Statistics, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
Modeling Spatial-Temporal Binary Data Using Markov Random Field

9:30 AM to 10:00 AM

Alix Gitelman
Department of Statistics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Chain Graphs for Spatial Dependence in Ecological Data

10:00 AM to 10:30 AM: BREAK (Atrium)

10:30 AM Session VI: CONTRIBUTED TALKS ON SPATIAL STATISTICS (Idaho/Michigan State Room)
Chair: Wendy Meiring, Department of Statistics, University of California, Santa Barbara

10:30 AM to 11:00 AM

Peter F. Craigmile, Noel Cressie, Thomas J. Santner, and Youlan Rao
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Bayesian Inferences on Environmental Exceedances and Their Spatial Locations

11:00 AM to 11:30 AM

Yonftao Guan
University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
Test for Interaction between Marks and Points of a Marked Point Process

11:30 AM to 12:00 Noon

Nan-Jung Hsu
Institute of Statistics, National Tsing-Hua University (Taiwan)
Modeling Transport Effects on Ground-Level Ozone Using a Non-Stationary Space-Time Model

12:00 Noon - 12:30 PM

Lisa Madsen and Dan Dalthorp
Department of Statistics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Generating Spatially Correlated Count Data

12:30 to 1:30 PM: LUNCH at the Holiday Inn (Atrium)

1:30 PM Session VII: SPATIAL STATISTICS IN ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH (Idaho/Michigan State Room)
Organizer/chair: Douglas W. Nychka, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder CO

1:30 PM to 2:00 PM

Paul Sampson
Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Practical Issues and Tools for Modeling Spatio-temporal Trends in Atmospheric Pollutant Monitoring Data

2:00 PM to 2:30 PM

Tomoko Matsuo and Douglas W. Nychka
Geophysical Statistics Project, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO
Multi-resolution (Wavelet) Based Non-stationary Covariance Modeling for Incomplete Data: the EM Algorithm

2:30 PM to 3:00 PM

Reinhard Furrer, Stephan Sain, Tom Wigley, and Doug Nychka
Geophysical Statistics Project, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO
Spatial Hierarchical Bayes Model for AOGCM Climate Projections

3:00 PM to 3:30 PM

Dan Cooley¹, Philippe Naveau² and Paul Poncet³
¹National Center for Atmospheric Research, Geophysical Statistics Project and CU-Boulder Applied Mathematics Department
²CU-Boulder Applied Mathematics Department and Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, IPSL-CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
³Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Paris, France
Spatial Scaling of Extremes in Climate Models

3:45 PM CLOSING REMARKS

3:50 PM CLOSING MIXER (Atrium)