| 8:00 | Coffee & Begin Distributing Workshop Booklets | |
| 8:50 | Welcome to BARC | Beltsville Area Assoc/Director |
| 9:00 | Workshop Overview of Spatial Statistics | Bryan Vinyard, USDA/ARS |
| 9:30 | Concepts: Deterministic vs. Stochastic Modeling | Mary Camp, USDA/ARS |
| 10:00 | Coffee Break & Poster Discussions | B-003, Rm 020 |
| 10:30 | Keynote Address: An Introduction to Statistical Models for Spatial Data in Ecology | Jay Ver Hoef, NOAA/NMML |
| 12:00 | Lunch | B-003, Rm 020 |
| 1:30 | Concepts: Why Include Spatial Dependencies? | Mark Otto, DOI/USFWS |
| 2:00 | Concepts: Geostatistical Models | Matt Kramer, USDA/ARS |
| 2:30 | Example: Geostatistical Models & Normally Distributed Data | Rose Shillito, USDA/ARS |
| 3:00 | Break - Snacks & Poster Discussions | B-003, Rm 020 |
| 3:30 | Topic: Lattice Data | Mary Christman, U. Fla, Gainesville |
| 4:00 | Example: Potato Beetle Lattice Data | Matt Kramer, USDA/ARS |
| 4:30 | Spatial Sampling Design and Strategies | Jun Zhu, U. Wisconsin, Madison |
| 5:00 | GIS Basics | Alan Davenport, DOI/FWS |
| 8:30 | Coffee | |
| 9:00 | Spatial Modeling of Count Data | Andy Royle, DOI/USGS |
| 9:30 | A Hierarchical, Spatial Count Model for Mapping Rare Bird Abundance: An example with the American Woodcock | Wayne Thogmartin, USGS |
| 10:00 | Hierarchical Spatio-Temporal Models for Invasive Species | Mevin Hooten, U.Missouri |
| 10:30 | Coffee & Poster Discussions | B-003, Rm 020 |
| 11:00 | Topic: Diagnostics | Mark Otto, DOI/USFWS |
| 11:30 | Concepts: Point-Pattern Data | Steve Rathbun,U. Georgia |
| 12:00 | Lunch | B-003, Rm 020 |
| 1:30 | Spatial and Spatio-temporal Patterns of Yellow Crinkle Disease in Papaya | Philip Dixon, Iowa State U. |
| 2:00 | Topic: Software | Steve Rathbun, U. Georgia |
| 2:30 | Break - Snacks & Poster Discussions | B-003, Rm 020 |
| 3:00 | Topic: Combining Multi-Scale Spatial Data | Mark West, USDA/ARS |
| 3:30 | R2 as a Goodness of Fit Statistic for Mixed Models | Matt Kramer, USDA/ARS |
