jennyb

Education

PhD in Statistics, The Ohio State University, August 2011

Thesis title: Dimension reduced modeling of spatio-temporal processes with applications to statistical downscaling

Advisor: Professor L. Mark Berliner

M.S. in Statistics, The Ohio State University, December 2008

M.S. in Industrial Engineering, University of Iceland, Reykjavk, Iceland, June 2002

Thesis title: Statistical Analysis of Cod Catch Data from Icelandic Groundfish Surveys

Advisor: Professor Gunnar Stefansson

B.S. in Mathematics, University of Iceland, Reykjavk, Iceland, February 1999

Research Interests

My primary research interests are Bayesian hierarchical modeling and dimension reduction approaches to space-time modeling.
I am interested in a wide range of environmental applications and have focused my research on climatic sciences, in particular statistical downscaling and paleoclimate reconstruction.

In 2008-2010 I was a Research Associate, working with Dr. Mark Berliner on
Bayesian Hierarchical Models for High-Resolution Climate Reconstructions.

As a research associate at the Science Institute at the University of Iceland in 2003-2005 I worked on two projects. I developed a simulation model of selective fish breeding in collaboration with Dr. Gunnar Stefánsson and the company Stofnfiskur. I also worked with Dr. Kjartan Magnússon and Dr. Ólafur Nielsen on a population dynamics model of the ptarmigan population in Iceland.

Refereed Publications

Brynjarsdottir, J. and Berliner, L.M. (2011),
"Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling for Temperature Reconstruction from Geothermal Data",
Annals of Applied Statistics, Vol. 5, No.2B, pp. 1328-1359.

Brynjarsdottir, J. and Stefansson, G. (2004),
"Analysis of cod catch data from Icelandic groundfish surveys using generalized linear models",
Fisheries Research, Vol. 70, No. 2-3, pp. 195-208.

A full CV on pdf form can be found here