Education

• B.S. in Mathematics, Hampden-Sydney College, May 1990
• M.A. in Mathematics, Wake Forest University, May 1992
• Ph.D. in Statistics, University of South Carolina, August 1997

Research

• My assistantship (6/1/95 to 5/31/96) involved statistical analysis and interpretation for the Belle W. Baruch Institute for Marine Biology and Coastal Research with regards to a research grant awarded by NOAA named USES (Urbanization and Southeastern Estuarine Systems). Kriging (regression of spatially correlated data) was heavily used in this project.
• My dissertation research was under the supervision of Don Edwards and involved using b-splines and nonlinear mixed models to model ecological processes (e.g., the growth and decline patterns of marine fauna).
• My current research is in the areas of statistical education and life sciences as well as areas of legal and medical applications of statistics.