Topic-Contributed Paper Session

ASA ENVR Section student paper awards

Wed, Aug 5, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM Room CC-102B Thomas M. Menino Convention & Exhibition Center

Abhirup DattaOrganizerAbhirup DattaChair

Section on Statistics and the Environment co: No Additional Sponsorco: ASA Advisory Committee on Climate Change Policy Applied

5 Presentations

A Statistical Framework for Spatial Boundary Estimation and Change Detection: Application to the Sahel-Sahara Climate Transition

10:35 AM - 10:55 AM

Stephen Tivenan (Virginia Commonwealth University)

Co-authors: Stephen Tivenan (Virginia Commonwealth University), Indranil Sahoo (Virginia Commonwealth University), Yanjun Qian (Virginia Commonwealth University)

Heteroskedastic Gaussian Process Maximum Absolute Difference Global Envelope Test Uncertainty quantification Hypothesis Testing

AI-Guided Single-Index Varying–Coefficient Logistic Modeling: A Rain–Snow Partitioning Case Study

10:55 AM - 11:15 AM

Maha Moussa (Utah State University)

Varying-coefficient models Single-index models Semiparametric logistic regression Interpretable machine learning AI-guided regularization

Cost-Effective Spatial Policy Learning With Application to Nitrate Mitigation Policy in Wisconsin Groundwater

11:15 AM - 11:35 AM

Xindi Lin

Physical–Statistical Modeling for Estimating Storm Surge r-Year Return Levels

11:35 AM - 11:55 AM

Katherine Kreuser (Clemson University)

Co-authors: Katherine Kreuser (Clemson University), Whitney Huang (Clemson University)

Storm surge Simulation Gaussian Process Emulation Extreme Value Analysis Uncertainty Quantification Coastal Hazard Assessment

Spatially Adaptive Ensemble Learning with Calibrated Predictive Uncertainty

11:55 AM - 12:15 PM

Yanran Li

Co-authors: Jeremiah Liu, John Paisley, Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou, Brent Coull (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)

Ensemble learning Uncertainty calibration Gaussian process Spatiotemporal modeling Air pollution