The Section on Statistics and the Environment (ENVR) is seeking nominations for the 2013 ENVR Young Investigator Award. The award is meant to encourage and recognize younger members of the environmental statistics community. Criteria for the award include (a) having made distinguished contributions to environmental statistics; (b) having current membership in ENVR; (c) not being a recipient of the Young Investigator Award from a previous year; and (d) not having reached her/his 41st birthday during the calendar year of the award. (In the special case of an individual who has received his or her terminal degree in statistics fewer than 12 years prior to the nomination deadline, a nominee will be eligible who has not yet reached her/his 46th birthday during the calendar year of the award.)
The committee considers only those members for whom nominations are submitted. Committee members do not offer nominations, but encourage ASA members to make a thorough search for good candidates.
For the 2013 competition, nomination materials must consist of the following:
- A nomination letter featuring the nominee’s contributions to environmental statistics
- A brief CV for the nominee, not exceeding five pages
- At least one (1) and up to three (3) external letters of support
- A clear statement for which of the two awards the nominee should be considered. If being considered for the Young Investigator Award, please submit the birth date of the nominee. The committee will use the “Jonathanian” method of calculating the age of the nominee.
Nominations must be received by March 30 and should be submitted electronically as a PDF document (preferred) or a Word file. Submit nominations to Marcia Gumpertz at gumpertz@ncsu.edu.
Members of the ENVR awards committee will make the selection, and successful nominees will receive their award at the ENVR business meeting and reception during the Joint Statistical Meetings in Montreal. Questions regarding the award should be addressed to Gumpertz.
Winners of the 2012 Student Paper Competition are:
First Place – Stefano Castruccio of The University of Chicago for “Global Space-Time Models for Climate Ensembles”
Second Place (tie) – Libo Sun of Colorado State University for “Penalized Importance Sampling for Parameter Estimation in Stochastic Differential Equations in Two Chronic Wasting Disease Epidemics” and Stacey Alexeeff of Harvard University for “Bias Analysis for the Use of Spatially Predicted Air Pollution Exposures in Linear Models of Air Pollution Health Effects”
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