The Environmental Statistics Sections of the
French Statistical Society and the Royal
Statistical Society along with the International
Biometric Society British, Irish and French
Regions are organising a joint meeting on
STATISTICAL MODELLING IN THE ENVIRONMENT, WITH
SPECIAL REFERENCE TO BIODIVERSITY AND SPATIO-TEMPORAL APPROACHES
Date: Wednesday 24 May 2006
Time: 10:25am
Place: The National French Institute for Rural
Engineering, Water and Forest Management (ENGREF)
19 av du Maine, 75 732 Paris Cedex 15 France,
tel 33 (0)1 45 49 89 30, near Gare Montparnasse
(see map at http://www.engref.fr/planfco.pdf)
A summary of the programme can be found below. For full details, please see
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/ENVSTAT/meet_0605.html
The meeting is free of charge for the attendees,
but the participants are required to register in
advance by mail at [log in to unmask]
SUMMARY OF PROGRAMME:
The talks will cover statistical modelling in the
environment, with special reference to
Biodiversity and spatio-temporal approaches. The program is as follows:
10h25 - 10h30 Cyrille Van Effenterre (Head of ENGREF): Words of welcome
10h30 - 11h00 Philippe Naveau (LSCE) : State-Space models for the extremes
11h00 - 11h15 Coffee break
11h15 - 12h00 Janine Illian (Univ. of Aberdeen):
Contribution of spatial point process modelling to biodiversity theory
12h00 - 12h30 Nicolas Bez (IFREMER) : Spatial
models for marine resource assessment and management
12h30 - 14h00 Break for lunch in nearby restaurants
14h00 - 14h30 Panel discussion : Avner Bar-Hen,
Liliane Bel, Marian Scott, Ruth King
14h30 - 15h15 Richard Gregory (RSPB) : Measuring
biodiversity: using birds as indicators of environmental change in Europe
15h15 - 15h45 Catherine Laredo (INRA) :
Stochastic models and statistical inference for
pollen dispersal in homogeneous and heterogeneous environments
15h45 - 16h00 Coffee break
16h00 - 16h30 Olivier François (IMAG) : Inference
of structure from genetic data in a continuously
distributed population: An application to the Scandinavian brown bear
16h30 - 17h00 Fred Mortier (CIRAD) : Hierarchical
Bayesian models accounting for spatial dependence
and zero-inflation in sapling patterns: examples
from a French Guianan rainforest
17h00 - 17h45 Steve Buckland (Univ. of St
Andrews) : Monitoring regional biodiversity: some statistical issues
17h45 - 18h00 Close of meeting : Ron Smith, Eric Parent
With best wishes,
Richard
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Richard E. Chandler
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Room 135, Dept of Statistical Science, University College London,
1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 1880 Fax: +44 (0)20 7383 4703
Internet: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Stats (department)
http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucakarc (personal)
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