Invited Speakers

The following speakers are invited to give plenary or special lectures. The individual abstracts to the talks are accessible through the "ps" and "pdf" links.

For your convenience, all abstracts are available as a single document (ps, pdf, or as two-up 2up ps, 2up pdf [230-380kb]).

Bruce Beck, University of Georgia
On procedures for reconciling models with observations: Still muddling through (ps, pdf)
mbbeck@uga.edu

Mark Berliner, Ohio State University
Physical-statistical modeling and prediction (ps, pdf)
mb@stat.ohio-state.edu

Peter Challenor, Southampton Oceanography Centre
The Probability of Thermohaline Collapse and Rapid Climate Change (ps, pdf)
P.Challenor@soc.soton.ac.uk

Anders Grimvall, Linköping University
Environmental objectives, interim targets and assessment of goal achievement (ps, pdf)
angri@mai.liu.se

Peter Guttorp, University of Washington
Where is environmental statistics going? (ps, pdf)
peter@stat.washington.edu

Andreas Hense, Meteorologisches Institut, University of Bonn
On the use of statistics in complex weather and climate models (ps, pdf)
ahense@uni-bonn.de

Gudmund Høst, Norwegian Computing Service
Spatial and temporal aspects of modelling fish abundance (ps, pdf)
gudmund.host@nr.no
(Unfortunately Gudmund Høst had to cancel in the very last minute. This talk will be given by coauthor Anders Løland instead).

Åke Johansson, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
Empirical Orthogonal Teleconnections (ps, pdf)
Ake.Johansson@smhi.se

Claudia Libiseller, Department of Mathematics, Linköping University
Model selection for ozone normalisation using regional-scale meteorological variables (ps, pdf)
cllib@mai.liu.se

Georg Lindgren, Lund University
Satellite surveillance and stochastic modelling of ocean conditions (ps, pdf)
georg@maths.lth.se

Gianfranco Lovison, University of Palermo
Categorical/categorized data in environmetrics (ps, pdf)
lovison@unipa.it

Antti Penttinen, University of Jyväskylä
Characterizing, modelling and interpreting spatial association between spatial point processes (ps, pdf)
penttine@stat.jyu.fi

Marian Scott, University of Glasgow
The model evaluation process: lessons in statistical modelling applied to environmental modelling (ps, pdf)
marian@stats.gla.ac.uk

Richard Smith, UNC Chapel Hill
Nonstationary spatial models in climatology and air pollution (ps, pdf)
rls@email.unc.edu

Jonathan Tawn, Lancaster University
Dependence issues in problems of environmental extremes (ps, pdf)
j.tawn@lancaster.ac.uk

Hans Wackernagel, Ecole des Mines de Paris
Selective geostatistics for environmental problems (ps, pdf)
wackernagel@cg.ensmp.fr