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News & Updates

My mission is to have no vision statement!
15 April 2013 
Twenty or so years down the track and the vision and mission thing is still as popular as ever in corporate Australia. Why?


15-04-2013 

Deja vu: CSIRO (still) in deep trouble?
15 April 2013 
More than 7 years ago, former divisional chief, Max Whitten wrote about a "crisis in confidence" in CSIRO. It makes for interesting reading in light of the flurry of similar articles which have appeared more recently in the media.

More bad news for CSIRO
April 13 2013 
Another blow to our science agency.

Canadian Environmental Science and Regulation under threat
12 April 2013 
The Canadian Federal Government is making drastic reductions in the reach and capabilities of its environmental science departments.  Read Peter Wells's Marine Pollution Bulletin article.

International Year of Statistics
06 February 2013 
2013 is the International Year of Statistics

New Predictive Capability for Dredging projects
29 November 2012 
Environmetrics Australia has developed a unique water column turbidity and benthic light forecasting system.

New Learned Discourse
11 July 2011 
David Fox and Elise Billoir comment on the important distinction between population effects and individual effects in concentration-response modelling.

ASE Keynote address
18 April 2011 
Prof. David Fox gave a Keynote address at the recent Australasian Society for Ecotoxicology conference held in Darwin.

Psst...Wanna win the lottery? Here's how.
11 Feb 2011 
Statistician cracks the code to scratch lotto tickets!
Canadian geological statistician, Mohan Srivastava has hit the internet headlines this week after working out how to decode instant win scratch lottery tickets.

The Geeks strike back!
21 Jan 2011 
Want a good job? Become a statistician! The latest survey of top jobs (in the US) sees statisticians, actuaries, and mathematicians in the top 10!

New professional accreditation
05 Jan 2011 
Company Director, Prof. David Fox, has been awarded 'pstat' status by the American Statistical Association.

De-Sal Dilemma
07 July 2010 
There has been a frenzied rush to construct desalination plants in Australia. Not only have the business cases been questioned, and in some cases severely criticised, new doubts have been raised about the science underpinning components of the environmental studies.

Statistical Ecotoxicology
06 April 2010 
A commentary on the role of statistical science in ecotoxicology.

Challenges for the Statistics Profession
06 April 2010 
The American Statistician has made available free of charge articles appearing in the Special Section: Opportunities and Challenges for the Discipline published in the February 2010 edition of the Journal.

Statistician hits the wrong note
April 3 2010 
A letter published in the February 2010 edition of RSS News (a publication of the Royal Statistical Society) by John Flynn provides another example of how not to help promote the cause of statistics and statisticians.

Numeracy in decline? - let me count the ways.
17 March 2010 
A report (click here to download a copy) just released by the Group of Eight (Go8) Australian universities concludes that we're going backwards with respect to numeracy.

De-sal de-lay
March 09, 2010 
The Queensland government has announced that it is looking at delaying construction of its proposed desalination plant as storage levels peak at 94%.

Statistics and Biosecurity
March 04, 2010 
An article written by Prof. David Fox on the role of statistics in biosecurity surveillance and monitoring has just been published in the latest edition of Issues.

The statistics of climate change
February 15, 2010 
So who do you believe when it comes to climate change?

The Future of Statistics and Statisticians
13 February 2010 
Ever had a need to consult a statistician? Many who have complain that the experience was not entirely pleasant and/or constructive. So what's wrong?

NOECs, LOECs, ECx - Opinion
November 23, 2009 
The latest edition of the Australasian Journal of Ecotoxicology has two opinion pieces on the role of NOECs (and other statistical measures) used in ecotoxicology.

New reports Added!
9 September 2009 
Visit our Download page (click the tab above) and check out the new reports added.

Wonthaggi De-salination Plant - And the winner is...
July 31, 2009 
The Victorian Government today announced the winning bid to build and operate Australia's largest desalination plant at Wonthaggi.

New Report on Biosurveillance
July 16, 2009 
The Australian Centre of Excellence for Risk Analysis at the University of Melbourne has released the final report for Project 0605 (Statistical Methods for Biosecurity).

MODSIM 2009
July 16, 2009 
The 18th. IMACS/MODSIM conference is being held this week in Cairns, Australia.

Statistical Issues in Ecotoxicology
July 02, 2009 
It is becoming increasingly common practice in ecotoxicology to use ECx data rather than NOECs. In a recent 'Learned Discourse', David Fox argues that this is unsound and fraught with difficulties.



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Statistical Science for Environmental Management





Environmetrics Australia
is a small niche company, nationally and internationally recognised for its delivery of advanced mathematical and statistical services in support of better environmental monitoring, sampling and assessment.

Scientific staff have advanced degrees  (masters and/or PhD.) in statistics coupled with extensive applied experience gained from working on major environmental projects of national and international significance.



Services:

  • Ecotoxicology - we collaborate with international research teams to advance the efficacy of quantitative ecotoxicology. Our work is published in leading international journals and has had a significant impact on contemporary methods. We work closely with water utilities and natural resource managers to help make more informed and reliable decisions about toxicants in the natural environment.
  • Development of forecasting systems to predict water column turbidity and benthic light for major dredging projects (see news item on left sidebar).
  • The design, evaluation, and placement of environmental monitoring networks. For water quality, this is relevant to the cost-effective management of sediments, nutrients, and salinity. For air quality, this involves the siting of individual monitoring stations to 'optimize' the network.
  • Robust statistical methods for the estimation of sediment and nutrient loads.
  • The development of 'smart' autosamplers for measuring sediment and nutrient loads in rivers, streams, and drains. We have developed advanced statistical algorithms that result in up to 90% reduction in monitoring effort with little loss of statistical accuracy or precision.
  • Environmental risk assessment - our staff are recognised world experts in quantitative ecological risk assessment.

Short-Courses in Environmetrics

Environmetrics Australia provides specialised training in contemporary statistics for environmental researchers, managers, and technicians. Our flagship short-course 'Introductory Environmetrics' has been enthusiastically embraced by natural resource management agencies around Australia.

Other specialised courses in ecotoxicology, spatial statistics, time-series modeling, and Bayesian networks are also available.

For all enquiries, please contact us.




 

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