Ejaz Ahmed,Faculty of Mathematics and Science, Brock University, Canada

Big Data Analysis

Ejaz Ahmed, Brock University, Canada; A Journey through Data to BIG DATA:  A Statistician Perspective

M. Faisal Beg, Simon Fraser University, Canada; Spatial Statistics and High Dimensional Network Analysis in Computational Anatomy

Other speakers to be confirmed

José M. Angulo, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of Granada, Spain

Extremes and Risk Assessment

Elías Moreno, University of Granada, Spain;  Clustering for binomial trials

Other speakers to be confirmed

Daniela Cocchi, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy and  Alessandro Fassò, Department of Engineering Management, University of Bergamo, Italy

GRASPA Invited Session: Spatio-Temporal Geostatistics and New Methodologies

Francesco Finazzi and Marian Scott;  Analysis of coherency in sea surface water temperature using model-based clustering

Pasquale Valentini; Generalized latent VARMAX models and dynamic structural equations, with application in air pollution and health statistics

Alessandro Fassò; Statistical issues in earthquakes early warning using volunteer sensor networks

Tonio Di Battista; Environmental monitoring through functional biodiversity tools.

Abdel H. El-Shaarawi, Cairo University, Egypt and National Water Research Institute, Canada

Environmental Economics

José-María Montero, Gema Fernández-Avilés and Román Mínguez, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain: Spatial Linear and Non-Linear Hedonic Models with and without Spatial Drift to Assessing the Impact of Environment on Housing Prices: An Application in the City of Madrid.

Javier Santacruz Cano, Research Department, Stock Exchange Studies Institute, Spain; Brent Oil Prices and the Theory of “Solar Spots”

Discussion:

Sylvia R. Esterby, Statistics, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Canada

Methods for Environmental Data with Below Detection Limit Values

Shoja’eddin Chenouri, Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Canada, and Niloofar Shoari and Jean-Sebastien Dube, Ecole de Technologie Superiere, Montreal; Parameter estimation based on environmental data with below detection limits: Considering skewness and model misspecification

Jaroslav Michalek, University of Defence, Czech Republic, and Michal Fusek, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic;  Left-censored samples from skewed distribution – statistical inference and applications

Other speakers to be confirmed

Chebana Fateh, Centre Eau Terre Environment, INRS, Canada

Statistical Advances in Hydrology

Masselot, P., Chebana, F., Bélanger, D., Abdous, B., St-Hilaire, A., Gosselin, P.; The EMD-regression for an overall relationship between a response and exposures

Imene Ben Nasr, Fateh Chebana; Centre Eau Terre Environment, INRS, Canada; Goodness-of-fit procedures for multiparameter copula based on multivariate L-moments

Abdelkader Benkhaled, Helene Higgins, Fateh Chebana, Abdelhakim Necir;  Of the stationarity and non stationarity in frequency analysis: Application to the supended sediment concentrations in Abiod river, Biskra (Algeria)

Yulia Gel, Department of Mathematical Sciences,The University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Advances in Statistical Modeling of Renewable Energy Sources

John Boland, University of South Australia, Australia; Additive versus Multiplicative Seasonality in Solar Radiation Time Series:

Prashanth R Marpu and Taha B.M.J. Ouarda, Institute Center for Water and Environment (iWATER), Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, UAE; Non-linear Models for Estimation of Solar Radiation from Satellite Images

Joshua Patrick, University of California at Davis, USA; A Semiparametric Spatio-Temporal Model for Solar Irradiance

Marc G. Genton, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia

Recent Advances in Environmental Statistics

Ying SUN, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia, Huixia J. WANG, George Washington University, USA, Montserrat FUENTES, North Carolina State University, USA; Fused Adaptive Lasso for Spatial and Temporal Quantile Function Estimation

Philippe NAVEAU, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et l'Environnement, France,Raphael HUSER, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia, Pierre RIBEREAU, Institut de Science Financiere et d’Assurances, France, Alexis HANNART, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Argentina;

Ganggang XU, Binghamton University, USA, Marc G. GENTON^, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia; Tukey g-and-h Random Fields

Ivana Horová, Departmentof Mathematics and Statistics, Masaryk University, Czech Republic

Statistical analysis in environmental studies.

Zuzana Hübnerová, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic; Modelling crab burrow counts

Lucia Paci, Alan E. Gelfand, María Asuncíon Beamonte, Marcos Rodrigues, Fernando Pérez-Cabello: Space-time modeling for post-fire vegetation recovery

Elena Naumova, Tufts University, USA; Precision Mapping: A novel tool for understanding spatial and temporal uncertainties in large-scale environmental health investigations

Ivanka Horová, Jan Koláček, Kamil Rajdl; Analysis of photovoltaic energy using kernel smoothing

Abdulkadir Hussein, Mathematics & Statistics, University of Windsor, Canada

Efficient Estimation in Regression, Changepoint and Survival 

Severien Nkurunziza, University of Windsor /Université de Sherbrooke (on leave), Canada, Fuqi Chen, The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, Canada; James-Stein type-estimators in Multivariate Linear Models with Change-points

Radhey S. Singh, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Canada; Hierarchical quasi-likelihood approach to frailty models with non-parametric risk effects

Marwan Al-Momani, A. Hussein, S.E Ahmed; Penalty and Related Estimation Strategies in Simultaneous Autoregressive Model

Katrina Tomanelli, Abdulkadir Hussein, Severien  Nkurunziza; Additive survival models and shrinkage estimation

Venkata K. Jandhyala, Mathematics and Statistics, Washington State University, USA

Statistical Methods for Environmental Data Analysis

Stergios B. Fotopoulos, Venkata K. Jandhyala, Robert B. Lund; General Asymptotics for the Change-Point Time

Daniela Jarušková, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic; Change point analysis of small Czech rivers seasonal behaviour

Elena A. Khapalova, Venkata K. Jandhyala, Stergios B. Fotopoulos; Statistical Study of Alaskan temperature changes over time: A Revisit

Viacheslav Lyubchich, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland, USA

Recent advances in environmental time series modeling

Victor Guerrero, Alejandro Islas Camargo, Lilia Leticia Ramirez- Ramirez; Multivariate time series trend estimation based on controlled smoothing:

S. Ejaz AHMED Brock University, Canada; Penalty and shrinkage estimation in regression models with random coefficient autoregressive errors:

Elmira Aliakbari, Ross Mckitrick, University of Guelph, Canada; Impacts of pipeline uncertainty on the market value of Canadian energy firms:

Vyacheslav Lyubchich, Yulia R. Gel; Scenario forecasting of insurance claims based on representative concentration pathways (RCPs):

Elena N. Naumova, The Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutritional Science and Policy, Tufts University, USA. “

Confluence of Satellite Remote Sensing, Environment, and Human Health for Modeling and Forecasting

Magaly Koch, Center for Remote Sensing, Boston University, Boston USA; The Use of Remote Sensing Monitoring to Understand Optimal Conditions for Mosquito Abundance in Pantanal, Brazil

Zein Elabidin Rizk, Institute of Environment, Water and Energy; Ajman University of Science and Technology, Ajman, UAE; Water Map of Ajman Emirate: A Tool for Sustainable Water Resources Management in United Arab Emirates

Alexander Liss, Tufts Initiative for the Forecasting and Modeling of Infectious Diseases, Tufts University, USA; The Frequency, Intensity and Arrival Time of Seasonal Heat Waves and their Adverse Effects on Human Health in Eight Climatic Regions of the United States

Ahmed Gaber, Geology Department, Port-Said University, Egypt; Sustainability Indicators for Agriculture Development in West Aswan Region, Egypt, based on Remote Sensing and Geophysical Studies

Donato Posa, and Alessandro Fassò, Department of Engineering Management, University of Bergamo, Italy

Spatio-Temporal Geostatistics and New Methodologies

Sandra De Iaco; Geostatistical models and new computational aspects for space-time predictions

Donato Posa; Selecting space-time covariance functions for modeling air quality data

Monica Palma; Predictions of complex-valued random fields

Lilia Leticia Ramírez:Ramírez, , Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, Mexico

The impact of social and climate environment on the incidence of diseases

Ibrahim H. A. Abd El-Rahim, The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Institute for Hajj and Umrah Research, Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia; The social behavior and spreading of infectious diseases in developing countries such Brucellosis

Mustafa Al-Zoughool, Department of Community and Environmental Health, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Saudi Arabia; A Comprehensive Framework for Environmental Health Risk Assessment

Yulia Gel, Department of Mathematical Sciences,The University of Texas at Dallas, USA, L. Leticia RAMIREZ RAMIREZ, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, Mexico and Vyacheslav LYUBCHICH, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland, USA ; Biosurveillance of Climate Sensitive Mosquito-Borne Diseases Using Online Social Media

Hao Zhang, Department of Statistics, Purdue University, USA

Making good use of spatial correlation

Joe Guinness, Statistics, North Carolina State University

Holly Wang, Agricultural Economics Department, Purdue University

Hao Zhang, Statistics, Purdue University