School of Mathematics and Statistics - Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Our focus in environmental and ecological statistics is the development of novel statistical methods for the environmental sciences, to address issues such as measurement of climate change and environmental impact assessment.

We have recently been awarded funding for three Australian Research Council Discovery Projects with environental and ecological applications, valued at almost $800,000:

S. A. Sisson and Y. Fan "Innovations in Bayesian inference with applications to climate extremes" (2008: $75,000, 2009: $70,000, 2010: $ 65,000)
D. I. Warton, N. R. Andrew and H. Gibb "Predicting the effect of climate change on community structure and function: an assessment using temperate grassland invertebrates" (2009: $120,000, 2010: $90,000, 2011: $90,000)
D. I. Warton "Advances in statistical methods for analysing high dimensional count data" (2009: $94,000, 2010: $94,000, 2011: $94,000)

Researchers

Yanan Fan
Spiro I. Penev
Ian Renner
Scott Sisson
David Warton