Profile

I joined the Cornell faculty in 1978 as a member of the Biometrics Unit in the Department of Plant Breeding and Biometry; this became the Department of Biometrics, and subsequently the Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology. I am also a faculty member in the Department of Statistical Science.

I was the Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Biometry and Statistics program from 1991 to 2009.

I retired from active faculty status in December 2011.

Research Interests

My research interests include ecological statistics, epidemiology, experiment design, modeling, multivariate analysis, sampling design, statistical computing, and statistical data analysis. I have done collaborative research in a variety of fields, including a paper in Science on organic contaminants in farmed salmon that received international attention.

Teaching

Courses I have taught recently include
BTRY 6010, Statistical Methods I (Fall 2010)
BTRY 4100, Multivariate Analysis (Spring 2009)
BTRY 3010, Biological Statistics I (Fall 2008)
BTRY 4080, Theory of Probability (Fall 2005, Fall 2006, and Fall 2007)
BTRY 4090, Theory of Statistics (Spring 2007, Spring 2008, and Spring 2011)
BTRY 4950, Statistical Consulting
BTRY 6040, Statistical Methods IV: Applied Design
BTRY 3100, Statistical Sampling