Past Conferences/Workshops

• 2007-08 Program on Risk Analysis, Extreme Events and Decision Theory, Opening workshop, 16-19 September, 2007, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, U.S.A.
  • Gilleland E. Extremes and Atmospheric Data (invited talk, pdf)
• 8^th WRF Users' Workshop. 11 - 15 June 2007, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.
  • Gilleland E et al. Using WRF output in the Spatial Forecast Verification Methods Inter-Comparison Project (ICP). (pdf)
• Workshop on Weather Extremes Impacts on Infrastructure, La Fonda on the Plaza, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 27-28 February, 2007.
• 2007 WRF Verification Toolkit Workshop, 21 - 23 February, 2007, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.
• Planning Meeting for the Spatial Forecast Verification Me thods Inter-Comparison Project (ICP), NCAR Foothills Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado, 20 February, 2007.
• Third International Verification Methods Workshop, 29 January - 2 February, 2007, Reading, U.K.
• Gilleland E et al.. Spatial forecast verification inter-comparison project (ICP) (pdf)
• American Meteorological Society (AMS) 87-th Annual Meeting, 14-18 January, 2007, San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A.
  • Gilleland E, M Pocernich, BG Brown and HE Brooks. 4.7 Extreme Value Analysis of global reanalysis data, 16th Conference on Applied Climatology (pdf)

• 2006 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) of the American Statistical Association (ASA): Statistics for an uncertain world: Meeting global challenges, 6-10 August, 2006, Seattle, Washington.
  • Analyzing the extreme behavior of large-scale meteorlogical variables found to have influence on severe storms and tornadic events using global reanalysis data. (pdf)
• 4th Annual UCAR/NCAR Early Career Scientists Assembly (ECSA) Junior Faculty Forum on Future Scientific Directions , 1-3 August 2006, Boulder, CO (organizing chair).
• 86th American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting, 29 January - 2 February, 2006, Atlanta, Georgia.
  • Gilleland, Eric and Katz, Richard W. "Analyzing seasonal to interannual extreme weather and climate variability with the extremes toolkit (extRemes)", 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change (contributed poster).
  • "Evaluating spatial quantitative precipitation forecasts in the form of binary images", 18th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences (contributed talk).

• 4th Conference on Extreme Value Analysis: Probabilistic and Statistical Models and their Applications, 15 - 19 August, 2005, Gothenburg, Sweden.
  • Gilleland, Eric and Katz, Richard W. The Extremes Toolkit: Weather and Climate Applications of Extreme Value Statistics (invited talk).
• 2005 Joint Statistical Meetings of the American Statistical Association, Using Our Discipline to Enhance Human Welfare, 7 - 11 August, 2005, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  • Schneider, Uli, Nychka, Douglas, Cooley, Daniel, and Gilleland, Eric. Statistical Methods for Spatial Data (invited session).
  • Brown, Barbara, Bullock, Randy G., Davis, Christopher, Gilleland, Eric. Diagnostic Evaluation of Spatial Weather Forecasts Using an Object-based Approach.

• International Verification Methods Workshop, 15 - 17 Sep., 2004, Montreal, Québec, Canada.
  • Lee, Thomas C.M., Gilleland, Eric, Brown, Barbara, and Bullock, Randy. Verification of quantitative precipitation forecasts using Baddeley's delta metric (contributed talk).
  • Gilleland, Eric. Optimizing METAR network design to remove potential bias in verification of cloud ceiling height and visibility forecasts (contributed talk).
• 2004 joint meeting of The Fifteenth Annual Conference of The International Environmetrics Society and The Sixth International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, 28 June - 1 July, 2004, Portland, Maine.
  • Gilleland, Eric. Optimizing METAR Network Design for Verification of Cloud Ceiling Height and Visibility Forecasts (contributed talk/paper).
• Graybill Conference 2004, Spatial Statistics: Agricultural, Ecological, and Environmental Applications, 16 - 18 June, 2004, Fort Collins, Colorado.
  • Gilleland, Eric, Nychka, Douglas and Schneider, Uli. Spatial models for the distribution of extremes (contributed talk).
• R users conference (useR!2004), 20 - 22 May, 2004, Vienna, Austria.
  • Gilleland, Eric, Katz, Rick, and Young, Greg. extRemes (contributed talk).
• 17th Conference on Probablity and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, 84th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), 10 - 15 January, 2004, Seattle, Washington.
  • Gilleland, Eric. Improving forecast verification through network design 2.5 (contributed talk/paper).

• 2003 Joint Statistical Meetings of the American Statistical Association, Statistics: A bridge to discovery and knowledge, 3 - 7 August, 2003, San Francisco, California.
• 1st Intl. Conf. on Environmental Statistics and Health., 16 - 18 July 2003, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
  • Gilleland, Eric. Statistical Models for Monitoring and Regulating Ground-level Ozone (contributed poster).