Michael Lavine

Duke University || Biology Department || Biological Anthropology
Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences


background faculty students degree structure & admissions rules & regulations curriculum financial support administration classes home	Michael Lavine
	Professor of Statistics, Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences

	Degrees	B.A. - Beloit College, Mathematics, 1974 M.A. - Dartmouth College, Mathematics, 1977 Ph.D. - University of Minnesota, Statistics, 1987

	Joint Appointments	Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences

	Research Interests	Statistics in Ecology, Bayesian Statistics, Foundations of Statistics. Dr. Lavine's current ecological projects include (1) an analysis of seed dispersal and seedling survival in forests, including a spatial and temporal analysis of how seedling success influences forest succession, (2) analysis of various data sets gathered in the Free-Air Carbon Dioxide Enrichment (FACE) Experiment in the Duke Forest -- a project that aims to understand how an entire forest ecosystem (vegetation and soils) will respond to growth in elevated CO₂, (3) organizing and coordinating the "Ecostat Lunch", a weekly forum for ecologists and statisticians to gather in an informal setting to discuss problems of mutual interest and (4) consultation with Ecology faculty and students on a wide range of ecological studies requiring statistical analysis.

	Recent Publications	Lavine, M., B. Beckage, and J.S. Clark. 2001. Statistical modelling of seedling mortality. Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics, in press. Lichter, J., M. Lavine, K.A.Mace, D.D.Richter and W.H. Schlesinger. 2000. Throughfall chemistry in loblolly pine plantation under elevated atmospheric CO₂ concentrations, Biogeochemistry 50:73-93. Krishnaswamy, J., M. Lavine, D. D. Richter, and K. Korfmacher. 2000. Dynamic modeling of long term sedimentation in the Yadkin River Basin. Advances in Water Resources 23:881-892

	Graduate Students	Current: Kate Calder, Maria De Iorio, Ana Rappoid

	Contact	E-mail: michael@stat.duke.edu Telephone: 919-684-2152 Fax: 919-684-8594 Homepage: www.stat.duke.edu/~michael
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