Environmental Statistics: selected publications

2006

Bernier, N. and K. R. Thompson, 2006. Predicting the Frequency of Storm Surges and Extreme Sea Levels in the Northwest Atlantic. Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, C10009, doi:10.1029/2005JC003168.

Bernier, N. and K. Thompson, 2006. Tide-Surge Interaction off the East Coast of Canada and the Northeastern US. Journal of Geophysical Research, In Press.

Bernier, N., K. R. Thompson, J. Ou and H. Ritchie, 2006. Mapping the Return Periods of Extreme Sea Levels: Allowing for Short Sea Level Records, Seasonality, and Climate Change. Global and Planetary Change, In Press.

Bobanovic, J., K. R. Thompson, S. Desjardins and H. Ritchie, 2006. Forecasting Storm Surges Along the East Coast of Canada and Northeastern US: The Storm of 21 January 2000. Atmosphere-Ocean, 44(2), p151-161.

Cranford PJ, Strain PM, Dowd M, Hargrave BT, Archambault M-C. 2006. Influence of Mussel Aquaculture on Nitrogen Dynamics in a Nutrient Enriched Coastal Embayment. Marine Ecology Progress Series (submitted)

Dowd M. 2006. Bayesian Statistical Data Assimilation for Ecosystem Models using Markov Chain Monte Carlo. Journal of Marine Systems (in press)

Dowd, M. 2006. A sequential Monte Carlo approach to marine ecological prediction. Environmetrics. 17:435-455.

Dupuis, D., and Mills Flemming, J. 2006. Modeling Peak Accelerations from Earthquakes, Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics,35, pp 969-987.

Losa, S.N., A. Vezina, D. Wright, Y. Lu, K. Thompson, and M. Dowd. 2006. 3D ecosystem modelling in the North Atlantic: relative impacts of physical and biological parameterizations. Journal of Marine Systems . 61: 230-245.

McLaren, I, Lees, A, Field, C, Collins, K ``Origins and Characteristics of Nearctic Landbirds in Britain and Ireland in Autumn: a Statistical Analysis'' to appear in Ibis

Mills Flemming, J., Field, C., Myers, R., Jonsen, I. 2006. How Well Can Animals Navigate? Estimating the Circle of Confusion from Satellite Telemetry, Environmetrics, 17(4), pp 351-362.

Stacey, M. W., J. Shore, D. G. Wright, and K. R. Thompson, 2006. Modeling Events of Sea-Surface Variability Using Spectral Nudging in an Eddy Permitting Model of the Northeast Pacific Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, C06037, doi:10.1029/2005JC003278.

Thompson, K., K. Ohashi, J. Sheng, J. Bobanovi_ and J. Ou, 2006. Suppressing Drift and Bias of Coastal Circulation Models Through the Assimilation of Seasonal Climatologies of Temperature and Salinity. Continental Shelf Research. In Press.

Thompson, K. R., D. G. Wright, Y. Lu and E. Demirov, 2006. A Simple Method for Reducing Seasonal Bias and Drift in Eddy Resolving Ocean Models. Ocean Modelling, 13, 109-125. Thompson, K. R., and E. Demirov, 2006. Skewness of Sea Level Variability of the World's Oceans. Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, C05005, doi:10.1029/2004JC002839.

Wong, M.C., Barbeau, M.A., M. Dowd and K. Richard. 2006. Behavioural mechanisms underlying observed functional responses of sea stars Asteris vulgaris preying on juvenille sea scallops Placopecten magellanicus. Marine Ecology Progress Series . 317:75-86

Wright, D. G., K. R. Thompson, and Y. Lu, 2006. Assimilating Long-Term Hydrographic Information Into an Eddy-Permitting Model of the North Atlantic, Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, C09022, doi:10.1029/2005JC003200.

2005

Dowd, M. 2005. A biophysical coastal ecosystem model for assessing environmental effects of marine bivalve aquaculture. Ecological Modelling . 183(2-3):323-346.

Greenberg, D.A., J.A. Shore, F.H. Page, and M. Dowd. 2005. A finite element circulation model for embayments with drying intertidal areas with application to the Quoddy region of the Bay of Fundy. Ocean Modelling 10(1-2):211-231.

Jonsen, I., Mills Flemming, J. and Myers, R. 2005. Robust State-Space Modeling of Animal Movement Data, Ecology, 86(11), pp 2874-2880.

2004

Bobanovic, J. and K. R. Thompson. 2004. Operational Modeling of Drifter Motion In Cabot Strait. Journal of Geophysical Research. Responding to reviewers comments.

Bobanovic, J. and K. R. Thompson. 2004. The Large Scale Barotropic Response Of The Eastern Canadian Shelf Seas To Synoptic Meteorological Forcing. Journal of Geophysical Research. Responding to reviewers comments.

Bobanovic, J., K R. Thompson, S. Desjardins and H. Ritchie. 2004. Forecasting Storm Surges along the East Coast of Canada and Northeastern US for the 21 January 2000 Storm. Submitted to Atmosphere-Ocean.

Book, J., P. Pistek, H. Perkins,, K. R. Thompson, W. Teague, G. Jacobs, Moon Sik-Suk, K. Chang, J. Lee, and B, Choi. 2004. Data Assimilation Modelling of the Barotropic Tides in the Korea/Tsushima Strait. Journal of Oceanography. In Press.

Butler,K, Field,C, Herbinger,C, Smith,B ``Accuracy, efficiency and robustness of four algorithms allowing full sibship reconstruction from DNA marker data'', Molecular Ecology 13 (2004) 1589-1600.

Dupuis,D, Field,C "Modeling Large Wind Speeds'' J.Agric.Biol.Env.Stat, 9 (2004) 105-121

Greenberg, D.A., J.A. Shore, F.H. Page, and M. Dowd. 2004. A finite element circulation model for embayments with drying intertidal areas with application to the Quoddy region of the Bay of Fundy. Ocean Modelling (accepted).

Dowd, M., J.L. Martin, M.M. LeGresley, A. Hanke and F.H. Page. 2004. A statistical approach for the robust detection of interannual changes in plankton abundance: Analysis of 1988-1999 monitoring data from the Bay of Fundy, Canada. Journal of Plankton Research. 26:509-523.

Harley,S, Myers,R, Field,C ``Improving estimates of abundance using hierarchical models: spawning biomass of hoki ({\it Macruronus novaezelandiae}) in Cook Strait, New Zealand'', Ecological Applications 14 (2004) 1479-1494.

Iverson,S, Field,C, Bowen,D, Blanchard,W "Quantitative Fatty Acid Signature Analysis: A New Method for Estimating Predator Diet'' Ecological Monographs, 74 (2004) 211-235

Sheng, J., K. R. Thompson, M. Dowd, and B. Petrie. 2004. Seasonal Mean Circulation Over The Eastern Canadian Shelf, With Emphasis On The Gulf Of St. Lawrence And Scotian Shelf. Journal of Geophysical Research. Responding to reviewers comments.

Smith, B. Sea level characteristics in the Bay of Fundy/Gulf of Maine. Environmetrics, accepted.

Thompson, K. R. and Shen Yingshuo. 2004. Coastal Flooding and the Bivariate Skew-t. Chapter 5 of Skew-Elliptical Distributions and their Applications: A Trip Beyond Normality. CRC Press, Chapman and Hall. In press.

2003

Dowd, M. and R. Meyer. 2003. A Bayesian approach to the ecosystem inverse problem. Ecological Modelling. 168:39-55.

Dowd, M. 2003. Seston dynamics in a tidal embayment with shellfish aquaculture: a model study using tracer equations. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 57(3):523-537.

Dowd, M., J.L. Martin, M.M. LeGresley, A. Hanke and F.H. Page. 2003. Interannual variability in a plankton time series. Environmetrics. 14(1):73-86

Genton, M. G., Thompson, K. R. 2003. Skew-elliptical time series with application to flooding risk. Time Series Analysis and Applications to Geophysical Systems. D. R. Brillinger, E. A. Robinson, F. P. Schoenberg (eds), IMA Volume in Mathematics and its Applications, No. 139, Springer, 169-186.

Thompson, K. R., J. Sheng, P. C. Smith, L. Cong. 2003. Prediction Of Surface Currents And Drifter Trajectories On The Inner Scotian Shelf. Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 108, No. C9, 3287.

Zakardjian, B., J. Sheng, J. Runge, I. Mclaren, S. Plourde, K. R. Thompson and Y. Gratton. 2003. Effects Of Temperature And Circulation On The Population Dynamics Of Calanus Finmarchicus In The Gulf Of St. Lawrence And Scotian Shelf: Study With A Coupled, Three-Dimensional Hydrodynamic, Stage-Based Life History Model. Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 108, No. C11, 8016.

2002

Perrie, W., E. Dunlap, P.W. Vachon, B. Toulany, and M. Dowd. 2002. Marine winds from remotely sensed measurements. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing. 28:450-465.

Thompson K. R., M. Dowd, Y. Shen and D. Greenberg. 2002. Probabilistic Characterization Of Tidal Mixing In A Coastal Embayment: A Markov Chain Approach. Continental Shelf Research, 22, 1603-1614.

2001

Bobanovic, J. and K. R. Thompson. 2001. The influence of local and remote winds on the sea level and circulation of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Continental Shelf Research, 21, 129-144.

Sheng, J., K. R. Thompson, L. Cong, P. Smith, and D. Lawrence. 2001. Effect Of Wind And Local Density On The Subtidal Circulation On The Inner Scotian Shelf. Continental Shelf Research, Volume 21(1) 1-19.

Dowd, M., P.W. Vachon, F.W. Dobson and R.B. Olsen. 2001. Ocean wave extraction from RADARSAT synthetic aperture radar inter-look image cross-spectra. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 39(1):21-37.

Lu, Y., K. R. Thompson and D. G. Wright, 2001. Tidal Currents And Mixing In The Gulf Of St. Lawrence: An Application Of The Incremental Approach To Data Assimilation. Special issue of Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 58, 723-735.

Yaremchuk, M. I., D. A. Nechaev and K. R. Thompson. 2001. Seasonal variation of the North Atlantic current. Journal of Geophysical Research, 106, C4, 6835-6851.

2000

Drinkwater, K., S. Lochman, C. Taggart, K. R. Thompson and K. Frank. 2000. Entrainment of redfish (Sebastes Sp.) larvae off the Scotian Shelf. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 57, 372-382.

Ruddick, B. R., A. Anis, and K. R. Thompson. 2000. Maximum Likelihood Spectral Fitting: The Batchelor Spectrum. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 17, 1541-1555, 2000.

Thompson K., R., M. G. Dowd, Y. Lu and B. Smith. 2000. Oceanographic data assimilation and regression analysis. Environmetrics, 11,183-196.