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Timelines
January 1999 Program in Spatial Statistics and Environmental Sciences (SSES) in the Department of Statistics established; Noel Cressie appointed as Director.
Winter Quarter 1999 PhD level graduate course, Spatial Statistics, taught; offered subsequently in odd years.
Spring Quarter 1999 Spatial and Environmental Statistics Seminar.
Autumn Quarter 1999 Spatial and Environmental Statistics Seminar.
November 1999 Program Assistant position created and filled by Terry England.
Winter Quarter 2000 Spatial and Environmental Statistics Seminar.
Spring Quarter 2000 MS level graduate course, Environmental Statistics, taught for first time; offered subsequently in even years.
May 2000 SSES Program organized the Workshop on Hierarchical Modeling in Environmental Statistics (WHIES) and the Short Course on Bayesian Hierarchical Statistics.
July 2000 Position Paper on Hierarchical Modeling in Environmental Statistics prepared and sent to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
July 2000 Statistical Computing Scientist position filled by Mark Irwin, who joined the Program (part-time) for project work.
Winter Quarter 2001 Environmental Data Seminar, 2001.
December 2001 Spatial Statistics course approved as Stat 829 and Environmental Statistics course approved as Stat 662.
Winter Quarter 2002 Environmental Data Seminar, 2002.
Autumn Quarter 2002 DIscussion Group in Environmental Statistics (DIGES).
Winter Quarter 2003 DIscussion Group in Environmental Statistics (DIGES).
Spring Quarter 2003 DIscussion Group in Environmental Statistics (DIGES).
Autumn Quarter 2003 Assistant Professor position with major duties in the SSES Program filled by Catherine (Kate) Calder.
Winter Quarter 2004 Remote-Sensing Data Seminar, 2004.
Winter Quarter 2004 SSES Graduate Discussion Group in Environmental Statistics, 2004.
Spring Quarter 2004 SSES Graduate Discussion Group in Environmental Statistics, 2004.
September 2004 EPA STAR grant awarded through American Chemistry Council Funding. The grant, "Sources to Biomarkers", involves major collaboration with researchers from the Battelle Memorial Institute.
October 2004 Kate Calder appointed Associate Director of the SSES Program.
Spring Quarter 2005 DIscussion Group in Environmental Statistics (DIGES).
Autumn Quarter 2005 Brown-bag seminar, Hongfei Li, OSU, "Assessing river health".
November 2005 Organizing Committee of MBI Workshop, "Uncertainty in Ecological Analysis", met in Columbus, OH, to plan the Workshop Program.
April 2006 MBI Workshop (Co-organized and Co-sponsored by SSES Program), "Uncertainty in Ecological Analysis".
Summer Quarter 2006 Brown-bag seminar, Shannon LaDeau, Smithsonian Institution, "Monitoring population effects of an emergent disease in wild birds".
Winter Quarter 2007 Environmental Exposure and Health Data (EEHD) Seminar, 2007.
Spring Quarter 2007 Brown-bag seminar, Birgir Hrafnkelsson, University of Iceland, "Bayesian modeling of spatially correlated extreme values".
Spring Quarter 2008 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".
Summer Quarter 2008 "Program in Spatial Statistics and Environmental Sciences" becomes "Program in Spatial Statistics and Environmental Statistics"; we are still the SSES Program!

Visitors
1999
Spring Hsin-Cheng Huang
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Summer Christopher Wikle
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
J. Andrew Royle
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services, Laurel, MD
Leandro Pardo
Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Kanti Mardia
University of Leeds, England
Hsin-Cheng Huang
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
2000
Winter Christopher Wikle
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
Hsin-Cheng Huang
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Spring Leo Knorr-Held
Imperial College, London
Summer Christopher Wikle
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
J. Andrew Royle
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services, Laurel, MD
Hsin-Cheng Huang
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Autumn Hal Stern
Iowa State University, Ames, IA
2001
Winter Christopher Wikle
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
J. Andrew Royle
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services, Laurel, MD
Jay Ver Hoef
Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Fairbanks, AK
Francisco Martinez
University of Valencia, Spain
Stephan Sain
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
Spring Hsin-Cheng Huang
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Stephan Sain
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
Summer J. Andrew Royle
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services, Laurel, MD
Autumn Douglas Nychka
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO
John Kornak
University of California, San Francisco, CA
2002
Winter Christopher Wikle
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
J. Andrew Royle
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Laurel, MD
Hsin-Cheng Huang
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Spring Thomas Windholz
University of Maine, Orono, ME
Summer Hsin-Cheng Huang
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Isobel Clark
Geostokos Ltd, Scotland
Autumn Robin Milne
University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
2003
Winter Catherine Calder
Duke University, Durham, NC
Murali Haran
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Christopher Wikle
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
Spring Victor De Oliveira
University of Arkansas, Fayettville, AR
Margaret Short
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Summer Isobel Clark
Geostokos Ltd, Scotland
2004
Winter Olivier Perrin
University of Toulouse 1, Toulouse, France
Spring Michael Stein
University of Chicago, IL
Summer Alexander Kukush
Kiev National University, Ukraine
Autumn Reinhard Furrer
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO
Don Percival
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Christopher Wikle
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
2005
Winter Tao Shi
University of California, Berkeley, CA
Nicolas Verzelen
University of Paris, Paris, France
Lionel Cucala
University of Toulouse 1, Toulouse, France
Luc Anselin
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL
Spring Gardar Johannesson
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, Livermore, CA
Summer Yongtao Guan
University of Miami, Miami, FL
Edward Gbur
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
Autumn James Clark
Duke University, Durham, NC
Jay Ver Hoef
National Marine Mammal Laboratory, Seattle, WA
Christopher Wikle
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
2006
Winter Christopher Wikle
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
Radu Herbei
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Desheng Liu
University of California Berkeley, CA
Eun-Hye (Enki) Yoo
University of California Santa Barbara, CA
Mevin Hooten
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
Spring MBI Workshop ("Uncertainty in Ecological Analysis") participants
Stewart Fotheringham
National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland
Autumn Jennifer Hoeting
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
2007
Winter Amy Braverman
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Spring Birgir Hrafnkelsson
University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland
Autumn Steve Sain
NCAR, Boulder, CO
2008
Spring Amy Braverman
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
John Parslow
CSIRO, Australia

Previous Personnel
Birgir Hrafnkelsson, Postdoctoral Researcher, 1999 - 2000.
Andrew Mugglin, Postdoctoral Researcher, 1999 - 2000.
David Wendt, Postdoctoral Researcher, 2000 - 2001.
John Kornak, Postdoctoral Researcher, 2002 - 2003.
Mark Irwin, Statistical Computing Scientist, 2000 - 2003.
Chunfeng Huang, Postdoctoral Researcher, 2005 - 2007.
Shannon LaDeau, Postdoctoral Researcher, 2006 - 2008.

Past Grants
EPA: Workshop on Hierarchical Modeling in Environmental Statistics, 2000 (PI: N. Cressie).
ONR: 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).
EPA: Hierarchical Statistical Analysis of Global and Regional Environmental Data, 1999 - 2002 (PI: N. Cressie; Co PIs: L.M. Berliner and C. Wikle).
NASA: Bayesian Hierarchical Air-Sea Interaction Modeling: Application to the Labrador Sea, 2000 - 2002 (PIs: L.M. Berliner, R.F. Milliff, P.P. Niiler, and C. Wikle)
NSF: Statistical Analysis of Uncertainty in Climate Change, 2002 - 2006 (PI: L.M. Berliner; Co PIs: C. Wikle and R. Levine)
NSF: Dynamics of Ice Streams: A Physical Statistical Approach, 2002 - 2006 (PI: N. Cressie; Co PIs: L.M. Berliner and K. Jezek)
ONR: Optimal Mapping When Datasets are Massive, 2004 - 2007 (PI: N. Cressie)
ORNL: Statistical Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Models with Application to Sensor Networks, 2005 - 2007 (PI: T. Hsing; Co PI: N. Cressie)
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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