Conferences
Geostatistical Analysis of Health and Exposure Conference
BioMedware held a meeting Monday and Tuesday May 10 & 11, 2004 to kick-off the GeoSeer project.
Agenda
Monday May 10, 2004—Expert Presentations
Welcome and Introductions (PDF of slides), Pierre Goovaerts (PG)
Methodology
Background of workshop (PDF of slides). Geostatistical analysis of exposure data, geostatistical filtering of cancer rates, scale-dependent correlation, PG
A geostatistics approach to linking geographically aggregated data from different sources (PDF of slides), Carol Gotway Crawford
Spatial smoothing and hotspot detection using Gaussian kernels (PDF of slides), Peter Rogerson
Boundary and cluster analysis of Long Island cancer data and association with air toxics: a non-geostatistical analysis (PDF of slides), Dunrie Greiling
Long Island data revisited (PDF of slides), PG
The user's perspective
How Health Departments might use spatiotemporal analysis and why they do not (PDF of slides), Richard Hoskins
Investigating the spatial relationships between environmental toxins and autism spectrum disorders: Data collection issues (PDF of slides), Diana Cregar
Evaluating risks through data comparisons to Michigan's Part 201 cleanup criteria, Sarah Hession
Wrap-up, PG
Tuesday May 11, 2004—Expert presentations & brainstorming
Introduction to day 2, PG
Software
Overview of SADA: Spatial Analysis, Decision Analysis, Sample Design, Robert Stewart
Characterizing risk in SADA, Tom Purucker
STIS software: Arsenic in groundwater and bladder cancer in SE Michigan (PDF of slides), Gillian AvRuskin
Brainstorm to develop recommendations for GeoSeer software
Closing remarks
GeoSeer Conference Participants
Pierre Goovaerts, Ph.D., PI and Chief Scientist, BioMedware, Inc.
Gillian AvRuskin, M.S., BioMedware, Inc.
Diana Cregar, ICARD, Eastern Michigan University
Carol Gotway Crawford, Ph.D., Centers for Disease Control
Dunrie Greiling, Ph.D., BioMedware, Inc.
Sarah Hession, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality
Richard Hoskins, Ph.D., Department of Health, State of Washington
Andrew Kaufmann, M.S., BioMedware, Inc.
Janice Moses, ICARD, Eastern Michigan University
Tom Purucker, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Peter Rogerson, Ph.D., SUNY, Buffalo, Department of Geography
Ariane Saint-Pierre, BioMedware, Inc.
Robert Stewart, University of Tennessee, Knoxville