Dan Cooley Assistant Professor Department of Statistics Colorado State University

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Courses

STAT 511 Design and Data Analysis for Researchers I (Fall 2009)
STAT 740 Extreme Value Analysis (Sprint 2009)
STAT 523 Quantitative Spatial Analysis (Spring 2009)
STAT 525 Analysis of Time Series I (Fall 2008)
MATH 495 Independent Study--FESCuE Seminar (Spring 2008)
STAT 523 Quantitative Spatial Analysis (Spring 2008)
STAT 501 Statistical Science (Fall 2007)
STAT 511 Design and Data Analysis for Researchers I (Fall 2007)

Schedule:

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

Biographical Information

I am an assistant professor in the statistics department at Colorado State University. I have research interests in extreme value theory and spatial statistics. I regularly collaborate with the Geophysical Statistics Project at NCAR.

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

Research

Selected Publications and Manuscripts

• Schliep E., Cooley D., Sain, S.R., Hoeting, J.A. (2009). A Comparison Study of Extreme Precipitation from Six Different Regional Climate Models via Spatial Hierarchical Modeling. Accepted by Extremes. manuscript(pdf) color/additional figures(pdf)
• Cooley D., Davis R., Naveau P. (2008). The Pairwise Beta Distribution: A Flexible Parametric Multivariate Model for Extremes Under revision. manuscript(pdf)
• Cooley D., Sain, S.R. (2008). Spatial Hierarchical Modeling of Precipitation Extremes from a Regional Climate Model. Accepted by JABES. manuscript(pdf)
• Shamseldin E.C., Smith, R.L., Sain S.R., Mearns L., Cooley D. (2008). Downscaling Extremes: A Comparison of Extreme Value Distributions in Point-Source and Gridded Precipitation Data. Under revision.
• Cooley D. (2009). Extreme Value Analysis and the Study of Climate Change, (Commentary on Tom Wigley's historical paper ``The Effect of Changing Climate on the Frequency of Absolute Extreme Events''). Climatic Change, 97:77-83.
• Naveau P., Guillou A., Cooley D., and Diebolt J. (2009). Modeling Pairwise Dependence of Maxima in Space. Biometrika, 96:1-17.
• Cooley D., Davis R., Naveau P. (2007). Prediction for Max-Stable Processes via an Approximated Conditional Density. CSU Technical Report 2007-3. manuscript(pdf)
• Cooley D., Nychka D., Naveau P. (2007) Bayesian Spatial Modeling of Extreme Precipitation Return Levels Journal of the American Statistical Association,, 102:824-840. appendix(pdf)
• Naveau P., Jomelli V., Cooley D., Rabatel A. (2007). Modeling Uncertainties in Lichenometry Studies Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 39:277-285.
• 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.
• 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

• Modeling Precipitation Extremes from Regional Climate Models; Joint Statistical Meetings; Washington DC; Invited Session: From Climate to Weather: Regionalizing Climate Models; August 2009. slides(pdf)
• Spatial Hierarchical Modeling of Precipitation Extremes from a Regional Climate Model; American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 15-19, 2008. slides(pdf)
• Spatial Hierarchical Modeling of Precipitation Extremes from a Regional Climate Model; University of Wyoming, October 3, 2008. slides(pdf)
• Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling of Extremes from Regional Climate Model Simulations; Statistical Modeling of Extremes in Data Assimilation and Filtering Approaches; Strasbourg France, June 25, 2008.
• Estimating Dependence and Performing Prediction for Max-stable Processes; Institut de Recherche Mathématique Avancée, Université Louis Pasteur Strasbourg, June 10, 2008. slides(pdf)
• Prediction for Max-Stable Processes via an Approximated Conditional Density; Interface 2008, Durham NC, May 22, 2008.
• Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling of Precipitation Extremes from a Regional Climate Model; Risk Revisited, SAMSI, Durham NC, May 21, 2008.
• 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.
• Spatial Dependence Estimation and Prediction for Extremes Multivariate Methods in Environmetrics; Chicago IL; October 27, 2006.
• 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.
  • 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 7 July 2008