NRCSE is currently pursuing research in the following projects:

1. ORCA Multivariate Data Viewers
   Investigator(s): Peter Sutherland, Anthony Rossini, Thomas Lumley, Dianne Cook

2. Visualizing Uncertainty in Environmental Data
   Investigator(s): Tim Nyerges

1. Book on Statistical Rules of Thumb
   Investigator(s): Gerald van Belle and Steve Millard

2. The Truth About Science: A Quantitative Environmental Research Curriculum for 5th - 7th Grades
   Investigator(s): June Morita
   

Ecological Impact

1. A Comparison of SVD and CCA Analyses in Climate Prediction
   Investigator(s): John Michael Wallace

2. Decision-making Under Uncertainty: Prioritizing Freshwater Habitat Restoration for Salmon Recovery in the Columbia River Basin
   Investigator(s): Ray Hilborne

3. Ecological Assessment of Riverine Systems by Combining Information from Multiple Sources
   Investigator(s): Mark Handcock, Anthony Olsen and Joseph Sedransk

4. Global Warming and Pacific Northwest Snowpack
   Investigator(s): Chris Bretherton

5. Graphical Modeling of Factors Influencing Benthic Populations in Streams
   Investigator(s): Peter Guttorp, Thomas Richardson

6. Is there a contradiction between apparent long-term increases in the frequency of extreme precipitation over the conterminous U.S. and the absence of flood trends?
   Investigator(s): Dennis Lettenmaier

Health Effects and Risk Analysis

1. An Exposition on Partial Least Squares Methodology in an Environmental Health Setting
   Investigator(s): Mary Lou Thompson and Paul D. Sampson

2. Analyses of Microchip Array Data to Identify Gene Responses Underlying Diseases from Environmental Exposures
   Investigator(s): Elaine Faustman

3. Estimating Health Effects of Particulate Matter Air Pollution in Seattle
   Investigator(s): Peter Guttorp

4. Graphical Models for Statistical and Causal Inference in PM Epidemiology
   Investigator(s): Thomas S. Richardson and Allan Marcus

5. Temporal Information and Fallacies in Biomarker-Based Exposure Inference
   Investigator(s): Elaine Faustman and Rafael Ponce
   

Model Assesment

1. Applications of Bartolucci's theorem
   Investigator(s): Julian Besag

2. Bayesian Analysis of Deterministic Simulation Models for Environmental Risk Assessment
   Investigator(s): Adrian Raftery

3. Bayesian Methods for Assessment of Environmental Fate and Transport Models
   Investigator(s): Alison C. Cullen, Adrian Raftery

4. Developing Methodology for Assessing Medium and Large Scale Environmental Models
   Investigator(s): E. David Ford, Rie Komuro, Marianne Turley and Joel Reynolds

5. Methods for Development and Assessment of Toxicodynamic Models
   Investigator(s): Elaine Faustman

6. Statistical Modeling of Multiply Censored Data
   Investigator(s): Mary Lou Thompson
 

Sampling and Design

1. An Empirical Investigation of Composite Sampling for Environmental Contaminants
   Investigator(s): Gerald van Belle

2. Comparison of Ranked Set Sampling to Alternative Sample Designs and Investigation of its Usefulness in Environmental Monitoring
   Investigator(s): Loveday L. Conquest

3. Monitoring Network Design Bias
   Investigator(s): Peter Guttorp

4. Primer on the Design of Experiments
   Investigator(s): Gerald van Belle
   

Standards and Regulatory Impact

• Environmental Health Regulation of Particulate Matter: Application of the Theory of Irreversible Investments
  Investigator(s): Michael Phelan

• Statistical Aspects of Setting and Implementing Environmental Standards
  Investigator(s): Peter Guttorp, Paul Sampson, Mary Lou Thompson and Larry Cox
  

Temporal, Spatial, and Spatio-Temporal Modeling

1. A Review of Statistical Adjustment of Ozone for Meteorological Variables
   Investigator(s): Mary Lou Thompson, Joel Reynolds, Larry Cox, Peter Guttorp, Paul Sampson

2. Bayesian Modeling of Nonstationary Spatio-Temporal DataI
   nvestigator(s): Paul D. Sampson and Peter Guttorp

3. Compositional Receptor Modeling
   Investigator(s): Dean Billheimer

4. Estimation of Human Impact in the Presence of Natural Fluctuations
   Investigator(s): Peter Guttorp, Paul D. Sampson

5. Evaluation and Development of a Stochastic Precipitation Model
   Investigator(s): Jim Hughes, Peter Guttorp

6. Fast and Exact Simulation of Long-Memory Processes
   Investigator(s): Peter Craigmile and Tilmann Gneiting

7. Imputing Ambient Air Pollution Exposures Over Space and Time for Use in Analyses of Health Effects
   Investigator(s): Lianne Sheppard

8. Modeling multiple pollutants at multiple sites, with application to acute respiratory studies
   Investigator(s): Jon Wakefield

9. Multiple Time Scale Regression Modeling of Air Polution
   Investigator(s): Thomas Lumley

10. Nonhomogeneous Covariance Estimation on the Sphere
    Investigator(s): Peter Guttorp, Paul Sampson and Dean Billheimer

11. Semiparametric Trend Estimation for Environmental Measurements
    Investigator(s): Peter Guttorp and Jon Wellner

12. Space-Time Covariance Models for Dynamic Processes
    Investigator(s): Tilmann Gneiting, Peter Guttorp and Paul D. Sampson

13. Spatio-Temporal Modeling and the Operational Evaluation of Air Quality Models
    Investigator(s): Paul D. Sampson and Peter Guttorp

14. Spatio-temporal Receptor Modeling
    Investigator(s): Eun Sug Park and Peter Guttorp

15. Transition Models for Categorical Space-Time Data with Application to Gypsy Moth Defoliation
    Investigator(s): Patrick Heagerty, Thomas Lumley

16. Trend Estimation Using Wavelets
    Investigator(s): Peter Craigmile, Don Percival and Peter Guttorp

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