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Workshop Agenda
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All workshop presentations will be held in the auditorium of clocktower building (bldg 003).

Wednesday March 15

8:00 Coffee & Begin Distributing Workshop Booklets  
8:50 Welcome to BARC Beltsville Area Assoc/Director
9:00 Workshop Overview of Spatial Statistics Bryan Vinyard, USDA/ARS
9:30 Concepts: Deterministic vs. Stochastic Modeling Mary Camp, USDA/ARS
10:00 Coffee Break & Poster Discussions B-003, Rm 020
10:30 Keynote Address: An Introduction to Statistical Models for Spatial Data in Ecology Jay Ver Hoef, NOAA/NMML
12:00 Lunch B-003, Rm 020
1:30 Concepts: Why Include Spatial Dependencies? Mark Otto, DOI/USFWS
2:00 Concepts: Geostatistical Models Matt Kramer, USDA/ARS
2:30 Example: Geostatistical Models & Normally Distributed Data Rose Shillito, USDA/ARS
3:00 Break - Snacks & Poster Discussions B-003, Rm 020
3:30 Topic: Lattice Data Mary Christman, U. Fla, Gainesville
4:00 Example: Potato Beetle Lattice Data Matt Kramer, USDA/ARS
4:30 Spatial Sampling Design and Strategies Jun Zhu, U. Wisconsin, Madison
5:00 GIS Basics Alan Davenport, DOI/FWS

Thursday March 16

8:30 Coffee  
9:00 Spatial Modeling of Count Data Andy Royle, DOI/USGS
9:30 A Hierarchical, Spatial Count Model for Mapping Rare Bird Abundance: An example with the American Woodcock Wayne Thogmartin, USGS
10:00 Hierarchical Spatio-Temporal Models for Invasive Species Mevin Hooten, U.Missouri
10:30 Coffee & Poster Discussions B-003, Rm 020
11:00 Topic: Diagnostics Mark Otto, DOI/USFWS
11:30 Concepts: Point-Pattern Data Steve Rathbun,U. Georgia
12:00 Lunch B-003, Rm 020
1:30 Spatial and Spatio-temporal Patterns of Yellow Crinkle Disease in Papaya Philip Dixon, Iowa State U.
2:00 Topic: Software Steve Rathbun, U. Georgia
2:30 Break - Snacks & Poster Discussions B-003, Rm 020
3:00 Topic: Combining Multi-Scale Spatial Data Mark West, USDA/ARS
3:30 R2 as a Goodness of Fit Statistic for Mixed Models Matt Kramer, USDA/ARS

   

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