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			 Tue, 8/2/2016, 
				2:00 PM -
				3:50 PM  
		 
		
			
			CC-Hall F1 West  
	 
	
		
			Contributed Poster Presentations: Section on Statistics and the Environment — Contributed Poster Presentations 
		 
	 
	
		
			 Section on Statistics and the Environment   
		 
	 
	
	
		
			Chair(s): Genevera  Allen, Rice University 
		 
	 
	
			
				
					
				 
			 
		
					
						
							55:
							  
						 
						
							Statistical Emulator for NARCCAP Surface Precipitation and Temperature Using Spatially Varying Bayesian Model Averaging  
							— 
							 Marcela  Alfaro Cordoba, North Carolina State University   ; Montse  Fuentes, North Carolina State University ; Joseph  Guinness, North Carolina State University ; Dorit   Hammerling, National Center for Atmospheric Research ; Doug  Nychka, National Center for Atmospheric Research 
						 
					 				
				
					
						
							56:
							  
						 
						
							A Statistical-Dynamical Approach to Probabilistic Decadal Climate Predictions  
							— 
							 Francisco  Beltran, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   
						 
					 				
				
					
						
							58:
							  
						 
						
							Local Warming: A Tale of Two Cities  
							— 
							 Lewis  VanBrackle, Kennesaw State University   
						 
					 				
				
					
						
							59:
							  
						 
						
							Negative Dependence in Markov Random Field Models  
							— 
							 Kenneth  Wakeland, Iowa State University   ; Mark  Kaiser, Iowa State University ; Daniel   Nordman, Iowa State University 
						 
					 				
				
					
						
							60:
							  
						 
						
							Simultaneous Analysis of Microbial Densities and Detection Errors  
							— 
							 Yu-Ting  Hsu, Penn State University   
						 
					 				
				
					
						
							61:
							  
						 
						
							An Estimation of the Variogram of Temperature Anomalies on the Earth  
							— 
							 Jacob  Shields   ; Chunfeng  Huang, Indiana University ; Scott  Robeson, Indiana University 
						 
					 				
				
					
						
							62:
							  
						 
						
							Calculation of the Steam Electric Power Plant Effluent Limits Using the Modified Delta-Lognormal (MDL) Distribution  
							— 
							 Yan  Zhuang, Westat   ; John  Rogers, Westat ; David A. Marker, Westat 
						 
					 				
				
					
						
							63:
							  
						 
						
							An Image Compression Algorithm for Large Spatio-Temporal Data Sets  
							— 
							 Indranil  Sahoo, North Carolina State University   ; Brian J. Reich, North Carolina State University ; Joseph  Guinness, North Carolina State University 
						 
					 				
				
					
						
							64:
							  
						 
						
							Robust Statistical Methods for the Ensemble Kalman Filter  
							— 
							 Colette  Smirniotis, San Diego State University   ; Barbara Ann Bailey, San Diego State University 
						 
					 				
				
					
						
							65:
							  
						 
						
							A Bayesian Hierarchical Data Fusion Approach Leveraging Lidar and Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Information to Improve Aboveground Forest Carbon Estimation for Interior Alaska, USA  
							— 
							 Chad  Babcock, University of Washington   
						 
					 				
				
					
						
							66:
							  
						 
						
							Spatio-temporal analysis of precipitation data via a sufficient dimension reduction in parallel  
							— 
							 Sai Kumar  Popuri, University of Maryland Baltimore County   ; Nagaraj K. Neerchal, University of Maryland Baltimore County ; Kofi  Adragni, University of Maryland Baltimore County ; Amita  Mehta, Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology