Co-Located Event: Hotspot GeoInformatics

• Title 
• Date/Time 
• Organizers 
• Description 
• Program 
Biography 

Title

Digital Governance and Hotspot Geoinformatics

Date/Time

• Tutorial: Monday, 10 December 2007, 14:10 - 17:10
• Sessions: Tuesday and Wednesday, 11-12 December 2007, 9:00 - 12:00
• Workshop: Thursday, 13 December 2007, 09:00 - 12:00

Organizers

Description

Geoinformatic surveillance for spatial and temporal hotspot detection and prioritization is a critical need for the 21st Century. A declared need is around for statistical geoinformatics and software infrastructure for spatial and spatiotemporal hotspot detection, prioritization, early warning, and sustainable management. A hotspot can mean an unusual phenomenon, anomaly, aberration, outbreak, elevated cluster, critical area. The declared need may be for monitoring, etiology, early warning, or management. The responsible factors may be natural, accidental, or intentional. The five year NSF DGP project has been instrumental to conceptualize surveillance geoinformatics partnership among several interested cross-disciplinary scientists in academia, agencies, and private sector across the nations.

The workshop will examine case studies of interest to agencies, academia, and private sector involving critical societal issues, such as public health, ecosystem health, ecohealth, biodiversity and threats to biodiversity, emerging infectious disease, water management and conservation, carbon sources and sinks, persistent poverty, environmental justice, crop pathogens, invasive species management, biosurveillance, biosecurity, disease biogeoinformatics, social networks, sensor networks, hospital networks and syndromic surveillance, video mining, early warning, tsunami inundation, and disaster management. Also space-time disease, poverty, pollution, object identification and tracking, early detection, early warning, hotspot trajectories and trends with examples of West Nile Virus, urban poverty patch dynamics, etc. The workshop emphasis is on development of geoinformatic hotspot surveillance system. See more ...

Session Program

Biography

Dr. G. P. Patil is Distinguished Professor of Mathematical and Environmental Statistics in the Department of Statistics at the Pennsylvania State University, and is a former Visiting Professor of Biostatistics at Harvard University in the Harvard School of Public Health.

He has a Ph.D. in Mathematics, D.Sc. in Statistics, one Honorary Degree in Biological Sciences, and another in Letters. He is a Fellow of American Statistical Association, Fellow of American Association of Advancement of Science, Fellow of Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute, Founder Fellow of National Institute of Ecology and Society for Medical Statistics in India.

He has been a founder of Statistical Ecology Section of Ecological Society of America, a founder of Statistics and Environment Section of American Statistical Association, and a founder of the International Society for Risk Analysis. He is founding editor-in-chief of the international journal, Environmental and Ecological Statistics and founding director of the Penn State Center for Statistical Ecology and Environmental Statistics. He has published thirty volumes and three hundred research papers. He has received several distinguished awards which include: Distinguished Statistical Ecologist Award of the International Association for Ecology, Distinguished Achievement Medal for Statistics and the Environment of the American Statistical Association, Best Paper Award of the American Fisheries Society, and lately, the Best Paper Award of the American Water Resources Association.

Dr. Patil is principal investigator of a five year NSF grant for surveillance geoinformatics for digital government in the 21st Century. The project has a dual disciplinary and cross-disciplinary thrust. He is a co-principal investigator of an EPA STAR grant for watershed characterization and prioritization for protection and restoration, and has been a data analysis and interpretation investigator for the Atlantic Slope Consortium Project of EPA STAR grant program.

Over the past thirty year period, Dr. Patil has been in the forefront of research and outreach in mathematical statistics and stochastics, statistical ecology, environmental statistics, and multiscale advanced raster map analysis. He has served on several advisory committees of federal and state agencies and environmental research institutes. He has been a member of the UNEP Science Advisory Board with Nobel Laureate, Mario Molina, in chair for the UNEP Division of Environmental Assessment and Early Warning. He recently served on the NSF Panel for Homeland Security and Geographic Information Systems. He has been on the Science Advisory Board of the Spatial Accuracy Symposia.

In the recent past, he has served on the EPA Science Advisory Board Regional Vulnerability Assessment Panel. Currently he serves as the principal advisor and coordinator for case studies on digital governance and hotspot geoinformatics across USA, Sweden, Germany, Italy, India, China, Indonesia, Japan, and Brazil under an NSF Digital Government Research Program Project.