Risk Program - Environmental Risk Analysis Working Group

Date	Topics & Readings	Notes
10/08/2007	Group introduction and organizational meeting
10/15/2007	Amy Nail (NC State U) Titile: Quantifying local creation and regional transport using a hierarchical space-time model of ozone as a function of observed NOx, a latent space-time VOC process, emissions, and meteorology Link: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-08092007-123658/ Amy's talks slides
10/22/2007	Michela Cameletti (SAMSI) Title: Computer intensive procedure for mapping and modeling a spatio-temporal process and its uncertainty Michela's talks slides
10/29/2007	Bahjat Qaqish (UNC-Chapel Hill) NMMAPS material pdf Suggested Readings: Bell et al. (2004) Bell et al. (2006) Bell et al. (2007) Dominici et al (2002) Dominici et al. (2006) Peng et al. (2005) Bahjat's talks slides	Recommended reading and site from Richard Smith EPA: Ozone Health Risk Assessment EPA reports related to the Ozone standard: http://www.epa.gov/ttn/naaqs/standards/ozone/s_o3_cr_td.html Fuentes et al. (2006)
11/05/07	Yongku Kim (SAMSI/Duke) Title: Change of Spatiotemporal Scale in Dynamic Models Yongku's talks slides
11/12/07	Rosalba Ignaccolo (SAMSI) Everson, PJ and Morris, CN (2000). Inference for multivariate normal hierarchical models. J.R.Statist. Soc. B 62 (2) 399-412 pdf Rosalba's talks slides	Additional meeting on 11/20/07. (Constrained) Inverse Wishart Prior Issues
11/19/2007	Eric Gilleland (NCAR) Wikle, CK and Cressie, N (1999). A dimension-reduced approach to space-time Kalman filtering. Biometrika 86 (4): 815-829. pdf Eric's talks slides
11/26/07	David Bell (Duke) Chen et al. (2007). Outdoor air pollution: ozone health effects. Am.J.Med.Sci. 333 (4): 244-248 pdf Dave's talks slides	Review materials for Dave's talk Rizzo (2006) : An overview of the quadratic and proportional rollback functions. Johnson (2002) : Discussions for other different rollback functions (focus on page 7-19 through 7-38).
12/03/07	Richard Smith (UNC-Chape Hill) Smith, RL (2003). Timescale-dependent Mortality Effects of Air Pollution. Am.J.Ep. 157: 1066-1070 pdf Smith, RL (2007). Air Pollution Risk pdf Richard's talks slides	Additional Meeting on 12/04/2007. Additional reference: Bell et al. (2007). EHP 115: 1591-1595. pdf
12/10/07	NMMAPS data Michela and Rosalba's talk slides NMMAPS data summary: O3 O3max boxplots of O3 boxplots of O3max Deaths Pollutant process: pdf Data flowchart: mortality pollution	Additional Meeting on 12/12/2007.
01/28/08	Rollback Issues Yongku's talks: a rollback application to NMMAPS ozone data	Additional Meeting on 01/30/2008.
02/06/08	Rollback and Programing Issues
02/11/08	Ozone Risk Modeling including Rollback	Additional meeting on 02/13/2008.
02/25/08	Ozone Risk Modeling including seasonal issues
03/03/08	Ozone Risk Modeling : continued
03/17/08	Relative risk analysis and other modeling issues

Name	Affiliation	Email Address
Kobi Abayomi	Duke University	[email protected]
Michela Cameletti	SAMSI	[email protected]
Jaeun Choi	UNC-Chapel Hill	[email protected]
Eric Gilleland	NCAR	[email protected]
Feng Guo	Univ. of Vermont	[email protected]
James Hammitt	Harvard University	[email protected]
Rosalba Ignaccolo	SAMSI	[email protected]
Myron Katzoff	Centers for Disease Control	[email protected]
Yongku Kim	SAMSI/Duke	[email protected]
Wenbin Lu	N.C. State University	[email protected]
Amy Nail	N.C. State University	[email protected]
Bahjat Qaqish	UNC-Chapel Hill	[email protected]
Jesus Rios	Concordia University	[email protected]
Richard Smith	UNC-Chapel Hill	[email protected]