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CURRICULUM VITAE

E. James HarnerProfessor and Chair

Department of StatisticsWest Virginia University

June 1, 2004

PERSONAL

Home Address Two Waterfront Place, Suite 1603Morgantown, WV 26501Voice: 304/292-2186

Office Address Department of StatisticsWest Virginia UniversityMorgantown, WV 26506Voice: 304/293-3607 x1051 FAX: 304/293-2272e-mail: [email protected]: http://www.stat.wvu.edu/~jharner

Birthdate June 16, 1945

EDUCATION

1972 Ph.D. Statistics and Biometry, Cornell UniversityPh.D. Dissertation: “A Class of Nonparametric Multiple Comparisons”

1967 B.S. - Industrial Engineering, West Virginia University

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2002-present Chair, Department of Statistics, West Virginia UniversityDirector, Bioinformatics Core Facility, Health Sciences, WVU

1997-2002 Chair, Department of Statistics, West Virginia University

1981-present Professor of Statistics, Department of Statistics and Computer Science, West Virginia University

1990 Sabbatical Leave, University of Minnesota

1977-1981 Associate Professor of Statistics, Department of Statistics and Computer Science and Associate Statistician, Agricultural Experiment Station, West Virginia University

1972-1977 Assistant Professor of Statistics, Department of Statistics and Computer Science and Assistant Statistician, Agricultural Experiment Station, West Virginia University

1971-1972 Researcher, College of Human Ecology Cornell University

REFEREED MANUSCRIPTS

1. Harner, E.J. and Whitmore, R.C., “Multivariate Measures of Niche Overlap UsingDiscriminant Analysis,” Theoretical Pop. Biol. 12: 21-35, 1977.

2. Harner E.J., Pohlman, C.G., and Sperow, C.B.,Jr., “Analysis of a 12 Year Corn-SmallGrain Rotation Experiment at Four Fertility Levels,” Agr. J. 69: 988-994, 1977.

3. Kuehn, J.P. and Harner, E.J., “Alternative Representations of Dummy Variables andTheir Interpretations,” J. of the Northeastern Agr. Econ.Council 7: 63-69, 1978.

4. Anderson, J.O., Nath, J., and Harner, E.J., “Effects of Freeze-Preservation on SomePollen Enzymes. II. Freezing and Freeze-Drying Stresses,” Cryobiology 15: 496-477,1978.

5. Wiant, H.V. and Harner, E.J., “Percent Bias and Standard Error in LogarithmicRegression,” Forest Sci. 25: 167-168, 1979.

6. Hindal, D.F., Harner, E.J., and MacDonald, W.L., “Further Studies on the RelationshipBetween Cultural Characteristics and Pathogenicity in Coratocystis ulmi,”Phytopathology 69 : 108-111, 1979.

7. Harner, E.J. and Slater, P.B., “Identifying Medical Regions Using HierarchicalClustering,” Soc. Sci. and Med. 14D: 3-10, 1980.

8. Tryon, E.H., Powell, D.S., and Harner, E.J., “Predicting Root Age of Advance GrowthBeneath Hardwood Canopies,” Can. J. For Res. 10: 264-268, 1980.

9. Whitmore, R.C. and Harner, E.J., “Analyses of Multivariately Determined CommunityMatrices Using Cluster Analysis and Multidimensional Scaling,” Biom. J. 22: 1-9, 1980.

10. Harner, E.J. and Whitmore, R.C., “Robust Principal Component and DiscriminantAnalyses of Two Grassland Bird Species Habitat,” USDA For. Ser. Gen. Tech. Rep. RM-87: 209-221, 1981.

11. Hindal, D.F., Harner, E.J., and MacDonald, W.L., “Cultural Characteristics,Pathogenicity Predictions, and Pathogenicity Tests for Some Isolates of Ceratocystisulmi,” Can. J. of Botany 59: 2543-2549, 1981.

12. Burr, D.B., Martin, R.B., Schaffler, M.B., Jurmain, R.D., Harner, E.J., and Radin,E.L., “Osteoarthrosis: Sex-Specific Relationship to Osteoporosis,” Amer. J. of PhysicalAnthropology, 61: 299-303, 1983.

13. Tainter, F.H., MacDonald, W.L., and Harner, E.J., “Survival of the Oak Wilt Fungusin Air-Dried Lumber,” European J. of For. Path. 14: 9-16, 1984.

14. Frank, P.S.,Jr., Hicks, R.R.,Jr., and Harner, E.J., “Biomass Predicted by Soil-SiteFactors: A Case Study in North-Central West Virginia,” Can. J. For. Res. 14: 137-140,1984.

15. Staley, T.E., Hearn, J.L., and Harner, E.J., “Use of Pressurized Vials for LoadingSample Loops in Soil Gas Analyses,” Soil Sci. Society of Amer. J. 48: 1201-1202, 1984.

16. MacDonald, W.L., Schmidt, E.L., and Harner, E.J., “Methyl Bromide Eradication ofthe Oak Wilt Fungus from Red and White Oak Logs,” Forest Products J. 35, No.7: 11-16, 1985.

17. Anderson, W.N.,Jr., Harner, E.J., and Trapp, G.E., “Eigenvalues of the Differenceand Product of Projections,” Linear and Multilinear Alg. 17: 295-299, 1985.

18. Harner, E. James., Shyu, Haw-Ru, and Trutzer, Victor, “A Simulation Study of theRobustness of Estimators for the Shape Parameter of the Gamma Distribution,” Volumeon Statistical Computation, Simulation, and Modeling, 1988.

19. Harner, E. James, “Interactively Developing Models Based on the ExponentialFamily,” Computing Science and Statistics: Proceedings of the 21th Symposium on theInterface, eds Kenneth Berk and Linda Malone, 21: 110-115, 1989.

20. Harner, E. James, “An Exploratory Data Analysis and Modeling System Based onLisp-Stat,”1991 Proceedings of the Statistical ComputingSection, American StatisticalAssociation: 70-78, 1991.

21. Bragg, James R., Prince, Roger C., Harner, E. James, and Atlas, Ronald M.,“Bioremediation Effectiveness following the Exxon Valdez Spill,” Proceedings of the1993 International Oil Spill Conference, American Petroleum Institute: 469-475, 1993.

22. Blackburn, J.W., Robbins, W.K., Prince, R.C., Harner, E.J., Clark, J.R., Atlas, R.M.,and Wilkinson, J.B., “Experimental Comparisons in Petroleum Site Remediation,”Preprints of the Division of Petroleum Chemistry, American Chemical Society, 38: 254-259, 1993.

23. Blackburn, J.W., Harner, E.J., Robbins, W.K., Prince, R.C., Clark, J.R., Atlas, R.M.,and Wilkinson, J.B., “Experimental Linkage Issues of Petroleum Site Bioremediation,”Biodegradation 4: 207-230, 1993.

24. Prince, R.C., Clark, J.R., Lindstrom, J.E., Butler, E.L., Brown, E.J., Winter, G.,Grossman, M.J., Parrish, PR., Bare, R.E., Braddock, J.F., Steinhauer, W.G, Douglas,G.S., Kennedy, J.M., Barter, P.J., Bragg, J.R., Harner, E.J., Atlas, R,M., " Bioremediationof the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: Monitoring Safety and Efficacy," In R. Hinchee, B.Alleman, R. Hoeppel, and Rr. Miller (Eds.), Hydrocarbon Bioremediation, Boca Raton,FL, CRC Press: 107-124, 1994.

25. Bragg, James R., Prince, C. Roger, Harner, E. James, and Atlas, Ronald M.,“Effectiveness of bioremediation for the Exxon Valdez oil spill,” Nature 368: 413-418,1994.

26. Page, D.S, Gilfillan, E.S., Boehm, P.D., and Harner, E.J., "Shoreline EcologyProgram for Prince William Sound, Alaska, Following the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: Part 1- Study Design and Methods," In Peter G. Wells, James N. Butler, and Jane S. Hughes(Eds.), Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: Fate and Effects in Alaskan Waters, Philadelphia, PA,ASTM: 263-295, 1995.

27. Boehm, Paul D., Page, David S, Gilfillan, Edward S., Stubblefield, William A., andHarner, E.James, "Shoreline Ecology Program for Prince William Sound, Alaska,Following the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: Part 2 - Chemistry and Toxicology," In Peter G.Wells, James N. Butler, and Jane S. Hughes (Eds.), Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: Fate andEffects in Alaskan Waters, Philadelphia, PA, ASTM: 347-397, 1995.

28. Gilfillan, E.S., Page, D.S., Harner, E.J., and Boehm, P.D., "Shoreline EcologyProgram for Prince William Sound, Alaska, Following the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: Part 3- Biology," In Peter G. Wells, James N. Butler, and Jane S. Hughes (Eds.), Exxon ValdezOil Spill: Fate and Effects in Alaskan Waters, Philadelphia, PA, ASTM: 398-443, 1995.

29. Gilfillan, E.S., Suchanek, T.H., Boehm, P.D., Harner, E.J., Page, D.S., and Sloan,A.N., "Shoreline Impacts in the Gulf of Alaska Region following the Exxon VAldez OilSpill," In Peter G. Wells, James N. Butler, and Jane S. Hughes (Eds.), Exxon Valdez OilSpill: Fate and Effects in Alaskan Waters, Philadelphia, PA, ASTM: 444-481, 1995.

30. Day, R.H., Murphy, S.M., Wiens, J.A., Hayward, G.D., Harner, E.J., and Smith, L.N.,"Use of Oil-affected Habitats by Birds after the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill," In Peter G.Wells, James N. Butler, and Jane S. Hughes (Eds.), Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: Fate andEffects in Alaskan Waters, Philadelphia, PA, ASTM: 726-761, 1995.

31. Suchanek, T.H., Richerson, P.J., Holts, L.J., Lamphere, B.A., Woodmansee, C.E.,Slotton, D.G., Harner, E.J., Woodward, L.A., "Impacts of Mercury on BenthicInvertebrate Populations and Communities within the Aquatic Ecosystem of Clear Lake,California," Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 80: 951-960, 1995.

32. Harner, E. James and Galfalvy Hanga C., "Omega-Stat: An Environment forImplementing Intelligent Modeling Strategies," In D. Fisher and H.J. Lenz (Eds.),Learning from Data: AI and Statistics V. Springer-Verlag, 1996.

33. Kioschos, Hans C., Asher, Marc A., Lark, Richard G., and Harner, E. James,“Overpowering the Crankshaft Mechanism: The Effect of Posterior Spinal Fusion Withand Without Stiff Transpedicular Fixation on Anterior Spinal Column Growth inImmature Cannines,” SPINE 21: 1168-1171, 1996.

34. Day, R.H., Murphy, S.M., Wiens, J.A., Hayward, G.D., Harner, E.J., and Smith, L.N.,“Effects of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill on Habitat Use by Birds in Prince William Sound,Alaska,” Ecological Applications 7 (2): 593-613, 1997.

35. Day, R.H., Murphy, S.M., Wiens, J.A., Hayward, G.D., Harner, E.J., and LawheadB.E., “Effects of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill on Habitat Use by Birds along the KenaiPeninsula, Alaska,” The Condor 99 No. 3: 728-742, 1997.

36. Suchanek, T.H., L.H. Mullen, B.A. Lamphere, P.J. Richerson, C.E. Woodmansee,D.G. Slotton, E.J. Harner and L.A. Woodward, “Redistribution of mercury fromcontaminated lake sediments of Clear Lake, California,” Water, Air and Soil Pollution104(1/2): 77-102, 1998.

37. Suchanek, T.H., B.A. Lamphere, L.H. Mullen, C.E. Woodmansee, P.J. Richerson,D.G. Slotton, L.A. Woodward and E.J. Harner, “Mercury in lower trophic levels of theClear Lake aquatic ecosystem, California,” pp. 249-268, In: G. Fogg, D. Hinton, M.Johnson and K. Scow (Eds.), The Integrated Assessment of Ecosystem Health. AnnArbor Press, Chelsea, MI. 358pp., 1999.

38. Parker, K.R., A.W. Maki, and E.J. Harner, “There's no need to be normal:Generalized Linear Models of Natural Variation,” Human and Ecological RiskAssessment 5: 355-374, 1999.

39. Sitaraman, M., Long, T. J., Weide, B. W., Harner, E. J., and Wang, L., “A FormalApproach to Component-Based Software Engineering: Education and Evaluation,”Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), IEEE,Toronto, CA. 601-609, 2001.

40. Xue, Hengyi and E. James Harner, “JavaStat: A Distributed Statistical ComputingEnvironment,” in the DSC 2001 Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop onDistributed Statistical Computing, ed. by K. Hornik and F. Leisch, ISSN 1609-395X,March 15-17, 2001, Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria. HYPERLINK http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/Conferences/DSC-2001/Proceedings/http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/Conferences/DSC-2001/Proceedings/.

41. Murali Sitaraman, Timothy J. Long, Bruce W. Weide, E. James Harner, and LiqingWang, “Teaching Component-Based Software Engineering: A Formal Approach and ItsEvaluation,” Computer Science Education, 2002.

42. Gilfillan, Edward S., E. James Harner, David S. Page, “Comments on Peterson et al.‘Sampling design begets conclusions’,” Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2002.

43. Misra, Neeraj, Harshinder Singh, and E. James Harner, “Stochastic Comparisons ofPoisson and Binomial Random Variables with Their Mixtures,” Statistics andProbability Letters, 65: 279–290, 2003.

44. Ma, Y. and E. James Harner, “Identifying Differentially Expressed Proteins in 2-DDIGE Experiments,” to appear in the Proceeding of the 36th Symposium on the Interface:Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.

45. Harner, E. James, Singh H., Li, S., and Jun Tan, “Computational Challenges inComputing Nearest Neighbor Estimates of Entropy for Large Molecules,” to appear inthe Proceeding of the 36th Symposium on the Interface: Computational Biology andBioinformatics.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

1. Harner, E.J., "The Teaching of Noncalculus Service Courses," Biometric Society andthe American Statistical Association Spring Meetings, Richmond, VA, 1981.

2. Harner, E.J. and Hobbs, G.R., "Applications of Robust Statistics," AmericanStatistical Association/Environmental Protection Agency Radiation Conference onEnvironmental Sampling and Analysis of Sampling Data, Berkeley Springs, WV, 1982.

3. Harner, E.J., "Uses of Discriminant Analysis in Modeling Ecological Data,"Multivariate Techniques in Wildlife and Fisheries Research Session: American StatisticalAssociation, Biometric Society, and Institute of Mathematical Statistics Joint StatisticalMeetings, Cincinnati, OH, 1982.

4. Harner, E.J. and Billings, A.A., "Robust Discriminant Analysis," Eighth Annual SUGIConference, New Orleans, LO, 1983.

5. Harner, E.J., "Multivariate Data Analysis Using the SAS System," Tenth AnnualSUGI Conference, Reno, NV, 1985.

6. Harner, E. James., "Interactively Developing Models Based on the ExponentialFamily," 21th Symposium on the Interface: Computing Science and Statistics, Orlando,FL, 1989.

7. Hobbs, G.R. and Harner, E. James, "Robust and Exploratory Analyses Automated"Fourteenth Annual SUGI Conference, San Francisco, CA, 1989.

8. Harner, E. James, “Exploring Multivariate Ecological Data Using Motion Graphics,”Vth International Congress of Ecology, Yokohama, Japan, 1990.

9. Harner, E. James, “Integrating Statistical Analyses and Dynamic Graphics Using Lisp-Stat,” Southern Regional Council on Statistics: 1991 Summer Research Conference,Indialantic, Florida, 1991.

10. Harner, E. James, “An Exploratory Data Analysis and Modeling System Based onLisp-Stat,” Statistical Computing Section of the American Statistical Association,Atlanta, GA, 1991.

11. Harner, E. James, “The Design and Analysis of Experiments for Assessing theRecovery of Shoreline and Avian Species Following the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill,”IMS/WNAR Western Regional Meeting, Laramie, Wyoming, 1993.

12. Parker, K.R., Harner, E.J., and Skalski, J., “Statistical Considerations in NRDAStudies: Part 1- Sampling and Experimental Design,” 14th Annual Meeting of the Societyof Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Houston, TX, 1993.

13. Harner, E.J., Parker, K.R. and Skalski, J., “Statistical Considerations in NRDAStudies: Part 2- Analysis and Inference,” 14th Annual Meeting of the Society ofEnvironmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Houston, TX, 1993.

14. Harner, E. James and Parker, Keith R., “Design and Analysis of Experiments forAssessing Natural Resource Injuries Resulting from Unplanned Impacts,” Conference onEnvironmetrics: Fifth International Conference on Statistical Methods for theEnvironmentalSciences and Fourth General Meeting of The International EnvironmetricsSociety, Burlington, Canada, 1994.

15. Harner, E. James, Gilfillan, Edward S., and O’Reilly, James E., “A comparison of theDesign and Analysis Strategies Used in Assessing the Ecological Consequences on theExxon Valdez,” 6th International Conference on Environmetrics, Kuala Lumpar,Malaysia, 1995. (Invited address with discussant.)

16. Harner, E. James, “A Power Study of Fisher’s and Stouffer’s Meta-AnalysisProcedures,” International Conference on Applied Statistics in Medical Sciences, Ankara,Turkey, August, 1997.

17. Harner, E. James, “Building a Statistical Learning Environment Using Java,”Pittsburgh American Statistical Association Chapter, Pittsburgh, PA, Dec. 9, 1998.

18. Harner, E. James, “Statistics/Biostatistics in the Future,” Invited Panelist for theGraduate School of Public Health: 50th Anniversary Celebration, University ofPittsburgh, Feb. 18, 1999.

19. Harner, E. James, and Frank, Ernie, “Building an Adaptive Learning EnvironmentUsing WebObjects,” AAHE, Washington, DC, March 22, 1999.

20. Harner, E. James, John M. Atkins, Ernest Frank, Michael Kashon, Hengyi Xue, andLingyiZheng, “An Adaptive Statistical Learning Environment,” 1999 Joint Statistical Meetings,Baltimore, Maryland, August 8, 1999.

21. Harner, E. James, “ An Intelligent Distributed Environment for Adaptive Learning,”invitedseminar speaker at the Department of Statistics , Carnegie-Mellon University, January 24,

2000.

22. Harner, E. James and Hengyi Xue, “JavaStat: A Client/Server Statistical ComputingEnvironment,” Comstat 2000, Utrecht, the Netherlands, August 21-25, 2000.

23. Hengyi Xue and E. James Harner, “JavaStat: A Distributed Statistical ComputingEnvironment,” the 2nd International Workshop on Distributed Statistical Computing ,March 15-17, 2001, Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria.

23. Singh, H., J. Harner, V. Hnizdo, E. Demchuk, “Theoretical and ComputationalChallenges in Entropy Evaluation of Macromolecules,” 33rd Symposium on theInterface of Computing Science and Statistics, June 13–16, 2001, Costa Mesa, CA.(presented by Singh and Harner)

24. Harner, E. James, “An Intelligent Distributed Environment for Adaptive Learning(IDEAL)” invited seminar speaker at the Department of Statistics , Ohio StateUniversity, April, 2001.

25. Harner, E. James, “Criterion-Referenced Assessment of Student performance UsingHierarchical Bayesian Models,” International Conference on Statistical Inference andReliability, Dec. 21–24, 2001, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.

26. Harner, E. James, “Modeling the Probability Distribution of a Torsional Angle of aMolecular Conformation using R,” invited paper at the Hawaii International Conferenceon Statistics and Related Fields, June 7, 2002.

27. Harner, E. J., "Estimating the Entropy of Large Molecules," Conference inProbability Theory and Mathematical Statistics: Dedicated to the Centenary of A. N.Kolmogorov, September 22, 2003, Tbilisi, Georgia.

Session Chair

1. SUGI.

2. Interface Foundation, 1989.

3. Contributed Paper Session, CHESM-93: Chemometrics and Environmetrics Meeting,Bologna, Italy, 1993.

4. Invited Paper Session, Conference on Environmetrics: Fifth International Conferenceon Statistical Methods for the Environmental Sciences and Fourth General Meeting ofThe International Environmetrics Society, Burlington, Canada, 1994.

5. Invited to Chair a Session: International Conference on Applied Statistics in MedicalSciences, Ankara, Turkey, 1997.

6. 30th Symposium on the Interface: Computing Science and Statistics, Minneapolis, MN,1998 (session organizer and chair).

7. Invited to Chair a Session: AAHE, Washington, DC, March 22, 1999.

8. Invited to Chair a session at the International Society of Bayesian Analysis (ISBA),Dec. 21–24, 2001, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.

Grants

1. Apple Computer: Harner, E. James, “A Computational and Graphics Laboratory forTeaching and Research in Computer Science, Statistics, and Mathematics” (Funded for$150,000 in 1987)

2. NSF Grant: Co-PI with Sitaraman, M. and Harms, D.G., "Development and Evaluationof a Reuse-Cenered Approach in Undergraduate Computer Science Education”($100,000. for the period 7/1/94-6/30/96)

3. NSF Grant: Co-PI with Sitaraman, M., et al., “Addressing Software’s Chronic Crisis inthe Undergraduate Computer Science Curriculum” ($125,000 for the period 7/1/96-6/30/98)

4. Joint NSF and DoEd: Co-PI with Sitaraman, M., et al., “Development andDissimination of a New Undergraduate Course Sequence in Software Design andDevelopment” ($199,023 for NSF part and $149,353 for FIPSE part for the period9/1/96-8/31/99)

5. Provost’s Office and Stat and CS: “Development of Technology-Enhanced Statistics101” ($7,000 from the Provost and $7,000 from Stat and CS for the period 7/1/96-12/15/96)

6. Provost’s Office, Dean’s Office, and Stat and CS: “Development of Technology-Enhanced Statistics 101: Phase II” ($6,000 from the Provost; $6,000 from the Dean; and$4,549 from Stat and CS for the period 12/16/96-6/30/97)

7. DoD/EPSCoR: Co-PI with Butcher, D.F. et al., “Center of Excellence in SoftwareEvolution”( $1,080,000 for the period 9/1/96-9/1/99)

8. WVU Instructional Technology Grant-1997: E. James Harner, “The Design andImplementation of a Web-Based Statistics and Society Course” ($5,000 for the periodMay 15, 1997-May 15, 1998)

9. A&S Summer Grants for Course Development: E. James Harner, “The Design andImplementation of a Web-Based Statistics and Society Course” ($2,500 for the periodMay 15, 1997-May 15, 1998)

10. FBI: PI with A. Billings, “A Statistical Software Environment for Assessing ForensicEvidence,” ($745,943 — 2nd round acceptance, but not funded)

11. WV Medical Institute: PI with Co-PI G. Hobbs, “Improving the Quality of HealthCare” ($75,000 for the period 9/15/98-9/14/99)

12. WV Workman’s Compensation: Co-PI with Al Ducatman, “Health Care and Cost

Data Systemization and Analysis Project,” ($1,198,116 for the period 1/1/99-12/31/01)

13. NASA: Statistics Coordinator with J. Callahan PI, “Applied Software Verificationand Validation: An Interdisciplinary Research Program” ($780,375 for the period3/1/99–2/28/99)

14. WV Medical Institute: E. James Harner PI, “Improving the Quality of Health Care”($77,314 for the period 9/15/99–9/14/00)

15. NIOSH Contract: E. James Harner PI, “Rotational Entropy Distribution States inMacromolecular Conformation Calculations” ($24,999 for the period 9/1/99–8/30/99)

16. DoD/EPSCoR: E. James Harner PI with M. Sitaraman PI, “Center of Excellence inSoftware Evolution” ($1,080,000 for the period 9/1/96–8/31/01: funded)

17. NIOSH Contract: E. James Harner PI, “Advanced Mathematical Statistical Servicesin Support of Statistical Methods Development” ($24,999 for the period 6/1/00–5/31/01;funded)

18. NIOSH Contract: E. James Harner PI, “Programmer Servides in Support of theRotational Entropy Project” ($10,000 for the period 6/1/00–5/31/01; funded)

19. ProLogic Contract: E James Harner PI, “Porting the Software Error EstimationProgram (SWEEP)” ($10,000 for the period 7/1/00–12/22/00)

20. Sharp Hospital Contract: E. James Harner PI, “Overtime Study” ($5,000; funded)

21. WV Medical Institute Contract: E. James Harner PI, “Improving the Quality ofHealth Care”($31,201 for the period 9/15/00–3/14/01; funded)

22. ELO/WVU Grant: E. James Harner PI, “An Intelligent Distributed Environment forAdaptive Learning” ($20,000 for 1 year—ending 9/15/01; funded)

23. WVU Research Corporation Proposal: E. James Harner PI, “StatTutor: An IntelligentStatistical Tutoring System” ($15,200 for the period 7/1/01–6/30/02: funded)

24. NIOSH Contract: E. James Harner PI, “Advanced Molecular Dynamics ModelingProgrammer Services in Support of the Rotational Entropy Project,” ($17,000 for theperiod 3/5/2001–6/5/2001; funded)

25. NIOSH Contract: E. James Harner PI, “Rotational Entropy Project and NeuralNetwork Research Research Support” ($44,998 for the period 8/16/01–8/15/02; funded)

26. NIOSH Contract: E. James Harner PI, “Provision of Statistical Consulting Services inSupport of the Biostatistics Branch of NIOSH/HELD” ($15,500 for the period

10/1/01–9/30/02; funded)

27. WV Medical Institute Contract: E. James Harner PI, “Improving the Quality ofHealth Care” ($38,506 for the period 10/16/01–06/30/02; funded)

28. WV Dept. of Natural Resources: E. James Harner PI, “Prescribed BurningStudy—Statistical Analyses of the Effect of Prescribed Burning and Thinning on TurkeyBrood Habitats” ($5,000 for the period 2001/02; funded).

29. Appalachian Regional Commission Grant: E. James Harner, Co-PI, “An Analysis ofDisparities in Health Status and Accessibility to Health Care in the Appalachian Region”($165,249, for the period 10/1/01–12/15/03; funded)

30. WV Supreme Court of Appeals, “Designing Sampling Methods and StatisticalModeling for Asbestos Litigation” (Tentatively funded)

31. NIOSH Contract: E. James Harner PI, “Rotational Entropy Project and NeuralNetwork Research Support” ($45,000 for the period 8/24/02–8/23/03; funded)

32. NIOSH Contract: E. James Harner PI, “Provision of Statistical Consulting Services inSupport of the Biostatistics Branch of NIOSH/HELD” ($30,900 for the period9/28/02–9/27/03; funded)

33. US Forest Service: E. James Harner PI, “Predicting Changes in the Growth Curves ofRed Oaks due to Gypsy Moth Defoliation” ($5,915 for the period 7/1/01—12/31/02)

34. WV Bureau of Employment Programs: E. James Harner CoPI with Al DucatmanCoPI, “Enhanced Approach to Data Systemization and Analysis” ($342,365 for theperiod 7/1/02–12/31/02; funded)

35. WV Bureau of Employment Programs: E. James Harner CoPI with Al DucatmanCoPI, “Workers' Comp-WVU Data Analysis Project” ($230,666 for the period7/1/03–6/30/04; funded)

36. NIOSH Contract: E. James Harner PI, “Circular Statistics and Rotational Entropy”($45,000 for the period 8/24/03–8/23/04; refunded)

37. NIOSH Contract: E. James Harner PI, "Provision of Statistical Consulting Services inSupport of the Biostatistics Branch of HELD/NIOSH - II" ($24,750 for the period5/16/03–9/28/03; funded)

39. NIOSH Contract: E. James Harner PI, "Provision of Statistical Consulting Services inSupport of the Biostatistics Branch of HELD/NIOSH - II" ($39,749 for the period9/29/03–5/15/04; funded)

40. NIOSH Contract: E. James Harner PI, "Scientific Programming Consulting Services

in Support of the Computational Biology Team" ($6,600 for the period4/01/03–11/15/03; funded)

41. WV Medical Institute Contract: E. James Harner PI, “Improving the Quality ofHealth Care” ($50.892 for the period 7/01/03–6/30/04; funded)

42. USDA Forest Service: E. James Harner PI, “Predicting Changes in the GrowthCurves of Red Oaks due to Gypsy Moth Defoliation” ($18,300, for the period4/1/03—12/31/03; funded)

43. WVURC–PSIR: "Immunotoxicology Center" ($50,000 for the period 7/1/03–6/30/04;funded)

44. MBRCC Funding: “ Bioinformatics Core Facility” ($30,000 for the period thru9/1/03; funded)

45. MBRCC Funding: “ Bioinformatics Core Facility” ($40,000 for the period thru9/1/04; funded)

46. WVU Devision of Planning: "Enrollment Management" ($18,660 for the period1/1/03–6/30/03; funded)

MANUSCRIPTS SUBMITTED FOR PUBLICATION

1. Singh, Harshinder, Penn, John H. Harner, E. James, and Zheng, Lingyi, “SamplingQuestions From a Web Database: the Coupon Collector Problem Revisited,” submittedfor publication to The American Statistician.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

1. Harner, E.J. and Keller, E.C., "A Statistical Problem in Estimating the ExtremePercentiles for NPDES Permit and Guideline Limitations," Proceedings of the DataManagement Workshop of the Society of Power Industrial Biologists, New Hill, NC,1976.

2. Chilko, D.M. and Harner, E.J., "Generating Multivariate Normal Data in SAS,"Proceedings of the Third Annual SUGI Conference, 1977.

3. Fan, S.J. and Harner, E.J., "An Empirical Study of the Sampling Distributions ofHierarchical Clusters Using Multinormal Variables," Proceedings of the StatisticalComputing Section of the American Statistical Association, 1978.

4. Harner, E.J., King, R.D., and Billings, A.A., "Robust Modeling of Data Using PROCMATRIX," Proceedings of the Sixth Annual SUGI Conference, 1981.

5. Chilko, D.M., Hobbs, G.R., and Harner, E.J., "Probability Plotting in SAS,"Proceedings of the Sixth Annual SUGI Conference, 1981.

6. Harner, E.J., Hobbs, G.R., Keller, E.C.,Jr., Everett, A.G., and Chilko, D.M.,"Assessing Estimates of the 99th Percentile of a Distribution," Summaries of ConferencePresentations: 198-199, Environmetrics 81 Conference,1981.

7. Hobbs, G.R., Harner, E.J., Chilko, D.M., Miller, M., Keller, E.C.,Jr., and Everett,A.G., "A Comparison of Various Possible Methodologies for the Determination of NOxControl Requirements," Summaries of Conference Presentations: 330-331,Environmetrics 81 Conference, 1981.

8. Harner, E.J. and Billings, A.A., "Robust Discriminant Analysis," Proceedings of theEighth Annual SUGI Conference: 873-878, 1983.

9. Harner, E.J., "Multivariate Data Analysis Using the SAS System, "Proceedings of theTenth Annual SUGI Conference: 1216-1221, 1985.

10. Hobbs, G. and Harner, E.J., "Robust and Exploratory Analyses Automated,"Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual SUGI Conference:1330-1334, 1989.

11. Blackburn, J.W., Robbins, W.K., Prince, R.C., Harner, E.J., Clark, J.R., Atlas, R.M.,Wilkinson, J.B., "Experimental Comparisons in Petroleum Site Remediation," acceptedby American Chemical Society.

12. Harner, E. James and Galfalvy, Hanga C., “Omega-Stat: An Environment forImplementing Intelligent Modeling Strategies,” Fifth International Workshop onArtificial Intelligence and Statistics: , 1995.

13. Wojciechowski, William C. and Harner, E. James, “Visualizing Data Using DynamicCoplots,” in Computing Science and Statistics, eds. M.M. Meyer and J.L. Rosenberger,Interface Foundation of North America, Fairfax Station, VA, 27, 274-278, 1995.

14. Galfalvy, Hanga C. and Harner, E. James, “A Statistical Environment for MultivariateAnalyses,” in Computing Science and Statistics, eds. M.M. Meyer and J.L. Rosenberger,Interface Foundation of North America, Fairfax Station, VA, 27, 259-263, 1995.

15. Wojciechowski, William C. and Harner E. James, “A Visual Approach to DataManagement,” in Computing Science and Statistics, eds. Lynne Billard and Nicholas I.Fisher, Interface Foundation of North America, Fairfax Station, VA, 28, 375-379, 1996.

16. Galfalvy, Hanga C. and E. James Harner, “An Implementation of Canonical Analysesin Omega-Stat,” in Computing Science and Statistics, eds. Lynne Billard and Nicholas I.Fisher, Interface Foundation of North America, Fairfax Station, VA, 28, 461-464, 1996.

17. Mullen, L.H., T.H. Suchanek, B.A. Lamphere, C.E. Woodmansee, P.J. Richerson,D.G. Slotton, L.A. Woodward and E.J. Harner, 1997. “Mercury in the Lower TrophicLevels of the Clear Lake Aquatic Ecosystem,” Proceedings of the First Annual ClearLake Science and Management Symposium, 1997 (Poster Session).

18. Harner E. James and H. Ware, “Using Java and Lisp-Stat for Statistics CourseContent andManagement,” Computing Science and Statistics: Dimension Reduction, ComputationalComplexity and Information, Interface Foundation of North America, Fairfax Station,VA. 30, 250-254, 1998.

19. Harner, E. James, “A 3-tier Web-based Adaptive Statistical Learning Environment,”ISI 99: 52nd Session, pp. 17–18 in Book 2: Contributed Papers, Helsinki, 1999.

20. Harner, E. James and Hengyi Xue, “JavaStat: A Client/Server Statistical ComputingEnvironment,” in Proceedings in Computational Statistics 2000: Short Communicationsand Posters, ed. by Wim Jansen and Jelke G. Bethehem. Statistics Netherlands: 199-200,2000.

21. Singh, H., J. Harner, V. Hnizdo, E. Demchuk, “Theoretical and ComputationalChallenges in Entropy Evaluation of Macromolecules,” Proceedings of the 33rdSymposium on the Interface of Computing Science and Statistics, 33: 392–398, 2001.

22. Harner, E. James, Hengyi Xue, Lingyi Zheng, and Jun Tan, “A Java/XML DistributedEnvironment for Statistical Computing,” in the Bulletin of the International StatisticalInstitute, Book 3, 53rd Session, Seoul, Korea: 199-200, 2001.

23. Harner, E. James, “Modeling the Probability Distribution of a Torsional Angle of aMolecular Conformation using R,” Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conferenceon Statistics and Related Fields, 2002.

24. Harner, E. James, Xue, Hengyi, “myJavaStat: an Environment for TeachingStatistics,” Proceedings of the 54th Session of the International Statistical Institute, 2003.

25. Harner, E. James, Singh, H., Li, Shengqiao, Tan, J., "Computational Challenges inComputing Nearest Neighbor Estimates of Entropy for Large Molecules," Proceedings of35th Symposium on the Interface of Computing Science and Statistics (to appear).

PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS

1. Harner, E.J., "Multivariate Structural Approaches to the Analysis of OceanographicPollution Data," Proceedings of the West Virginia Academy of Science, 48: 23, 1976.

2. Pegg, W.J., Keller, E.C., and Harner, E.J., "The Influence of Acid on the Cyclic Natureof Oxygen Consumption in Various Fishes," Proceedings of the West Virginia Academyof Science, 48: 29, 1976.

3. Harner, E.J., "A Class of Nonparametric Multiple Comparisons," IMS Bulletin 2: 103,1973.

4. Harner, E.J. and Whitmore, R.C., "Determining Avian Habitat Use Overlap UsingDiscriminant Analysis," American Ornithology Union 94th Meeting, HaverfordCollege, PA, 1976.

5. Anderson, W.N., Harner, E.J., and Trapp, G.E., "The Relationships Between theEigenvalues of Products and Differences of Projections," Sixth International Symposiumon Multivariate Analysis, 1983.

6. Harner, E. James , "Designing a Matched Case-Control Study of OccupationalFatalities,"46th Session of the International Statistical Institute, Tokyo, Japan, 1987.

TECHNICAL REPORTS

1. Harner, E.J., "Toward a Theory of Nonparametric Multiple Comparisons," Paper No.BU-399-M , Biometrics Unit, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1971.

2. Harner, E.J., "A Class of Nonparametric Multiple Comparisons," Ph.D Thesis, CornellUniversity, 1972.

3. Harner E.J. and Laquer, P.A., "Data Report to Monongalia County EmergencyMedical Services Coordinating Committee," 1974.

4. Laquer, P.A., Harner, E.J., and Marshall, H.P., "Recommendations for Establishing anEmergency Medical Services Systems in Monongalia County," 1974.

5. Keller, E.C.,Jr., and Harner, E.J., "Direct Testimony of E.C. Keller, Jr., Ph.D and E.James Harner, Ph.D In Regard to the Adjudicatory Hearing for Shell and SoCal NPDESPermits - Lower Cook Inlet," 1976.

6. LaRiccia, V. and Harner, E.J., "A Comparative Analysis of Differing Approaches Tothe Two Way Mixed Effects Model," 1976.

7. Harner, E.J. and Shaw, L.G., "An Inquiry Into Measurement and Relationshp ConceptsIn the Dimensionality of Nations Project," 1977.8. Hobbs, G.R., Harner, E.J., Keller, E.C., and Miller, P.L., "An Assessment of theEffects of Effluents from Six Oil Refineries on Water Quality," Ecometrics TechnicalReport for the American Petroleum Institute, 1978.

9. Hobbs, G.R., Harner, E.J., and Keller, E.C., "An Analysis of Air Pollution Data from10. Air Quality Measuring Stations Near Oil Refineries," Ecometrics Technical Reportfor the American Petroleum Institute,1978.

10. Harner, E.J. and Hobbs, G.R., "Critique of the Data Analysis for the Manning (1976)and Hubbard (1977) Vineyards," Morgantown Area Statistical Consultants TechnicalReport for Energy Impact Associates, 1979.

11. Harner, E.J. and Hobbs, G.R., "An Analysis of the 1978 Hubbard Vineyard Data,"Morgantown Area Statistical Consultant Technical Report for Energy Impact Associates,1979.

12. Hobbs, G.R. and Harner, E.J., "An Analysis of the 1978 and the Combined1978/1979 Hubbard Vineyard Data," V. I-IV Morgantown Area Statistical ConsultantsTechnical Report for Energy Impact Associates, 1980.

13. Miller, M., Noeng, F., Keller, E.C., Harner, E.J., and Chilko, D., "An Application ofEPA Methodology to the Determination of Nox Control Requirements," Ecometrics andGordon and Associates Report, 1980.

14. Harner, E.J., "Uses of Discriminant Analysis in Modeling Ecological Data,"Department of Statistics and Computer Science Technical Report, 1982.

15. Anderson, W.N., Jr., Harner, E.J., and Trapp, G.E., "Eigenvalues of the Differenceand Product of Projections," Department of Statistics and Computer Science, WestVirginia University, TR 84-8, 1984.

16. Anderson, W.N., Jr., Harner, E.J., and Trapp, G.E., "Canonical Correlation Analysisand the Eigenstructure of Projections," Department of Statistics and Computer Science,West Virginia University, TR 84-9, 1984.

17. Harner, E. James, "Sampling Design for the FACE Project,"NIOSH TechnicalReport, 1986.

18. Harner, E. James, "Statistical Methodology for the FACE Project," NIOSH TechnicalReport, 1986.

19. Harner, E. James, "Utility Linemen Study Plan," NIOSH Technical Report, 1987.

20. Harner, E. James, "Bulldozer Operator Study Plan," NIOSH Technical Report, 1987.

21. Harner, E. James, "An Analysis of the Preliminary FACE Data andRecommendations for Redesigning the FACE Study," NIOSH Technical Report, 1988.

22. Harner, E. James, "The Interactive Data Analysis System (IDAS) for AnalyzingCase-Control Studies," NIOSH Technical Report, 1988.

23. Harner, E. James, "An Intelligent Modeling System Based on XLISP-STAT,"Department of Statistics and Computer Science , West Virginia University, TR89-4,1989.

24. Harner, E. James and Mundy, W., "Plan for Upgrading the MRS ComputingEnvironment," Protos, Inc., 1994.

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

1. "A Class of Nonparametric Multiple Comparisons, " Institute of MathematicalStatistics 139th Meeeting. Ithaca, NY, 1973.

2. "Multivariate Structural Approaches to the Analysis of Oceanographic Pollution Data,"51st Annual Session of the West Virginia Academy of Sciences. Bethany, WV, 1976.

3. "A Statistical Problem in Estimating the Extreme Percentiles for NPDES Permit andGuideline Limitations," Data Management Workshop of the Society of Power IndustryBiologists. New Hill, NC, 1976.

4. "An Inquiry into Measurement and Relationship Concepts in the Dimensionality ofNations Project," Internationsl Studies Association Annual Meetings. St. Louis, MO,1977.

5. "Generating Multivariate Normal Data in SAS," Third Annual SUGI Conference. LasVegas, NV, 1978.

6. "An Empirical Study of the Sampling Distributions of Hierarchical Clusters UsingMultinormal Variables," Statistical Computing Section of the American StatisticalAssociation. San Diego, CA, 1978.

7. "Robust Principal Component and Discriminant Analyses of Two Grassland BirdSpecies Habitat," Workshop on the Use of Multivariate Statistics in Studies of WildlifeHabitat. Burlington, VT, 1980.

8. "Robust Modeling of Data Using PROC MATRIX," Sixth Annual SUGI Conference.Lake Buena Vista, FL, 1981.

9. "Assessing Estimates of the 99th Percentile of a Distribution," Environmetrics 81Conference. Alexandria, VA, 1981.

10. "The Relationships Between the Eigenvalues of Products and Differences ofProjections," Sixth International Symposium on Multivariate Analysis. Pittsburgh, PA,1983.

11. "Comparative Study Methods with an Emphasis on Epidemiology," Six Presentationsin the Statistics Seminar Series, Morgantown, WV, 1984.

12. "Modeling Strategies," Two Presentations in the Statistics Seminar Series,Morgantown, WV, 1989.

13. Harner, E. James, Chianelli, Russell R., Modrick, Michelle A., "Design and AnalysisIssues of Petroleum Site Bioremediation," CHESM-93: Chemometrics andEnvironmetrics Meeting, Bologna, Italy, August, 1993.

14. Harner, E. James and Parker Keith R., "Design and Analysis of Experiments forAssessing Impact and Recovery of Shorelines from Oil Spills," CHESM-93:Chemometrics and Environmetrics Meeting, Bologna, Italy, August, 1993.

15. Harner, E. James and Galfalvy, Hanga C., “Omega-Stat: An Environment forImplementing Intelligent Modeling Strategies,” Fifth International Workshop onArtificial Intelligence and Statistics, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 1995.

16. Wojciechowski, William C. and Harner, E. James, "Visualizing Data Using DynamicCoplots," 27th Symposium on the Interface: Computing Science and Statistics,Pittsburgh, PA, 1995.

17. Galfalvy, Hanga C. and Harner, E. James, “A Statistical Environment for MultivariateAnalyses,” 27th Symposium on the Interface: Computing Science and Statistics,Pittsburgh, PA, 1995.

18. Harner, E. James, Gilfillan, Edward S., and O’Reilly, James E., “A comparison of theDesign and Analysis Strategies Used in Assessing the Ecological Consequences on theExxon Valdez,” 6th International Conference on Environmetrics, 1995, Kuala Lumpar,Malaysia. (Invited address with discussant.)

19. Wojciechowski, William C. and Harner, E. James, A Graphical Approach toManaging Data,” 28th Symposium on the Interface: Computing Science and Statistics,Sydney, Australia, 1996.

20. Galfalvy, Hanga C. and Harner, E. James, “An Implementation of CanonicalAnalyses in Omega-Stat,” 28th Symposium on the Interface: Computing Science andStatistics, Sydney, Australia, 1996.

21. Harner, E.J. and E.S. Gilfillan, “Comparison of Two Shoreline Assessment ProgramsConducted for the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill,” SETAC 17th Annual Meeting, Washington,D.C., 1996.

22. Harner, E. James and Wojciechowski, William C., “A Web-enhanced IntroductoryStatistics Course,” 29th Symposium on the Interface: Computing Science and Statistics,Houston, TX, 1997.

23. Wojciechowski, William C. and Harner, E. James, “Learning Statistical Conceptsusing Web-based Dynamic Graphics,” 28th Symposium on the Interface: Computing

Science and Statistics, Houston, TX, 1997.

24. Harner, E. James and Wojciechowski, William C., “A Web-enhanced IntroductoryStatistics Course.” 29th Symposium on the Interface: Computing Science and Statistics,Houston, TX, 1997.

25. Wojciechowski, William C. and Harner, E. James, “Learning Statistical ConceptsUsing Web-based Dynamic Graphics.” 29th Symposium on the Interface: ComputingScience and Statistics, Houston, TX, 1997.

26. Harner, E. James, “A Power Study of Fisher’s and Stouffer’s Meta-Analysisprocedures,” International Conference on Applied Statistics in Medical Sciences, Ankara,Turkey, 1997.

27. Harner, E. James, “Teaching Web-enhanced Introductory Statistics,” InvitedColloquium, Pennsylvania State University, Oct. 16, 1997.

28. Harner, E. James Harner, “Web-Enhanced Statistics 101,” WVU Technology Fair,Morgantown, WV, 1997.

29. Sitaramon, Murali, and E. James Harner, “Center for Excellence in SoftwareEngineering,” WV EPSCoR Conference, Charleston, WV, 1998.

30. Harner, E. James, “Using Java and Lisp-Stat for Statistics Course Content andManagement,” 30th Symposium on the Interface: Computing Science and Statistics,Minneapolis, MN, 1998.

31. Harner, E. James, “Building An Adaptive Statistical Learning Environment UsingWebObjects,” Statistical Science and the Internet, Drew University, NJ, 1998.

32. Harner, E. James, “Measuring and Assessing Costs of Software Evolution,” SERCShowcase, Morgantown, WV, 1998.

33. Harner, E. James and Kulczycki, Gregory, “Center of Excellence in SoftwareEvolution,” 6th Annual WV EPSCoR State Conference, Charleston, WV, Feb. 25, 1999.

34. Harner, E. James, “An Intelligent Distributed Environment for Adaptive Learning”31th Symposium on the Interface: Computing Science and Statistics, Schaumburg,Illinois, June 11, 1999.

35. Harner, E. James, “A 3-tier Web-based Adaptive Statistical Learning EnvironmentThe 52nd Session of the International Statistical Institute, Helsinki, Finland, August 12,1999.

36. Harner, E. James, Lingyi Zheng, Hengyi Xue, John Atkins, Ernie Frank, and MichaelKashon,

“IDEAL: An Intelligent Distributed Environment for Adaptive Learning,” ECASResearch Horizons in the 21th Century Workshop, Morgantown, WV, Sept. 23, 1999.

37. Harner, E. James and Hengyi Xue, “JavaStat: A Client/Server Statistical ComputingEnvironment,” Comstat 2000, Utrecht, the Netherlands, August 21-25, 2000.

38. Harner, E. James, Lingyi Zheng, Qunying Fan, Hengyi Xue, and Lingyi Zheng, “AClient/Server java-based Computing Environment for Statistics and Mathematics,” 2nd

Annual Research Horizons Workshop, ECAS/WVU, Sept. 21–22, 2000.

39. Harner, E. James, “Teaching Introductory Statistics Using Web Applications,” WVUComputing and Technology Fair, April 10, 2001.

40. Harner, E. James, Hengyi Xue, Lingyi Zheng, and Jun Tan, “A Java/XML DistributedEnvironment for Statistical Computing,” in the Bulletin of the International StatisticalInstitute, Book 3, 53rd Session, Seoul, Korea: 199-200, 2001.

41. Harner, E. James, “Criterion-Referenced Assessment of Student Performance UsingHierarchical Bayesian Models,” the 34th Symposium on the Interface: Computing Scienceand Statistics in Geoscience and Remote Sensing, April 19, 2002.

42. Harner, E. James, “Computational Challenges in Computing Nearest NeighborEstimates of Entropy for Large Molecules,” the 35th Symposium on the Interface:Computing Science and Statistics—Security and Infrastructure Protection, March 15,2003.

43. Harner, E. James, “myJavaStat: an Environment for Teaching Statistics,” the 54thSession of the International Statistical Institute, August 19, 2003.

MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION

1. Singh, Harshinder, Billings, A. B., Niewiadomska-Bugaj, Magdalena, and Harner, E.James, “Sequential and Smooth Estimators of Population Proportions,” being revised tobe resubmitted to Communications in Statistics.

2. Harner, E. James, Gilfillan, Edward S., and O’Reilly, James E., “A comparison of theDesign and Analysis Strategies Used in Assessing the Ecological Consequences on theExxon Valdez,” to be submitted to Environmetrics.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

1. Bioinformatics2. Cheminformatics3. Assessment Modeling4. Statistical Computing and Graphical Environments5. Environmental and Ecological Modeling

INSTRUCTIONAL INTERESTS

1. Statistical Modeling Theory and Methodologies2. Statistical Computing and Graphics3. Modeling Multivariate Data4. Interactive Web-based Statistical Instruction5. Bioinformatics

SERVICE ACTIVITIES

1. 20 Statistics and Computer Science Departmental Committees (1975–)2. 6 Arts and Sciences Committees (1981–)3. 14 West Virginia University Committees (1978–)4. 4 Board of Regents Committees (1983–1990)5. West Virginia University consulting: primarily in Agriculture, Biology, Ecology,

Economics, Education, Engineering, Epidemiology, Forestry, Geology, Medicine, Political Science, and Sociology

6. Community Work: primarily in planning, implementing, and directing a county-wide Emergency Medical Service System7. Chair, Dept. of Statisics (1997–)8. Director, Bioinformatics Core Facility

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS/ACTIVITIES

1. American Statistical Association2. Biometric Society3. International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC, a Section of the

International Statistical Institute)4. The Interface Foundation5. AI and Statistics6. Environmetrics Society7. Reviewer for various journals

Consulting Experience

1973–74 Monongalia County Commission. Analysis of the need for establishing a countywide emergency medical carrier service (Technical Reports #3 and #4)

1974–76 Ecometrics and the American Petroleum Institute (API) study concerning the effects of effluent discharges on oil drilling platforms in Lower Cook Inlet (Technical Report #5)

1976–78 Ecometrics and the API. Analysis of the effects of effluents from oil refineries on water quality (Technical Report #8)

1977–78 Ecometrics and API. Analysis of air pollution data near oil refineries (Technical Report #9)

1977–80 Morgantown Area Statistical Consultants (MASC) and Energy Impact Associates (EIA). Study concerning the effects of power plant emissions on vineyards (Technical Reports #10, #11, and #12)

1979–80 Ecometrics and Gordon and Associates. Study concerning EPA NOx control requirements (Technical Report # 13)

1982–90 SAS Institute, Inc. Short course instructor and consultant for the SAS System

1984–86 National Institute of Occupational Health and Safety (NIOSH).Design and analysis of the Fatal Accidents and Circumstances Evaluation (FACE) (Technical Reports #17, #18, 21, and #22)

1985–87 NIOSH. Design of the utility linemen and bulldozer operator studies (Technical Reports #19 and #20)

1987–89 Norfolk and Western Railway Co. Case concerning discrimination charges by workers (deposition given)

1990–94 Exxon Company, U.S.A. Principal statistician for Exxon Valdez NRDA shoreline ecology, wildlife (including seabirds),sea otters, eagle, and bioremediation studies (deposition given)

1992–94 Exxon Company, U.S.A. Statistical reviewer and analyst for studies associated with the Exxon Valdez fisheries claims (deposition given)

1992–95 Exxon Corporate Research. Design and analysis of bioremediation studies

1993–96 Beazer East, Inc. Design and analysis of remediation projects for the Feather River and South Cavalcade superfund sites

1993–94 Materials Research Society. Developed a plan for upgrading the MRS computing environment and assisted in implementingInternet connectivity and tools

1994-2001 EPA Grant /University of California Davis. Design and analysis of scientific studies concerning mercury and other

heavy metals for the Clear Lake superfund site

1983-1997 SAS Institute, Inc. Short course instructor; consultant for JMP

2000-01 Morgantown Utility Board

2000– Jackson and Kelly

2001– BCZ, Inc.

2002 Gianola, Barnum, and Wigal LC