Location: 232A Withers Hall, NC State Main Campus

Title: Multivariate spatial models for high-dimensional ecological data

Presenter: Jeffrey W. Doser, Ph.D.

Abstract: The proliferation of big spatial data from autonomous monitoring systems, national monitoring programs, and citizen science platforms offers never-before-seen opportunities to address pressing natural resource management and conservation questions. Yet, such massive spatial data present a variety of computational and statistical challenges that limit their use by practitioners. In this seminar, I will discuss recent methodological and software advances that enable efficient modeling of multivariate spatial data where both the number of locations and number of outcomes at each location is large. Case studies motivated by ecological and forestry data will highlight the framework’s utility for informing natural resource management and conservation.