S3RI Seminar - Dr Claire Miller (University of Glasgow) Seminar

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The surface water quality for lakes and rivers is routinely monitored to protect ecosystem, animal and human health and for compliance reporting to policymakers. Current monitoring strategies enable measurements of water quality determinands to be obtained through satellite observations, automatic monitoring sensors and to be available in situ at hundreds of spatial locations over time. There is a wealth of data available, which can provide novel information on the status of ecosystems with appropriate statistical analysis. However, the data present several challenges for statistical modelling including the data dimensionality, connected monitoring locations, missing data, calibration and validation and complex ecosystem interactions. Developments in spatiotemporal smoothing, functional data analysis and multivariate methods to overcome these challenges will be presented with applications including global lake water quality, river monitoring networks and freshwater connected ecosystems.