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Dr. Paul Black

is a consultant with Neptune and Co. in Los Alamos, New Mexico. He has clients in both the private sector and in government, including regulatory agencies such as the US Environmental Protection Agency. His expertise includes the application of Bayesian statistical methods to environmental data and decision-making problems.

Education:

Ph. D., Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, May 1996

M.S., Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, December 1985

B.Sc. (with honors), Statistics, University of Lancaster, Lancaster, U.K., June 1981

Areas of Expertise:

Statistics Design and Analysis

Bayesian Statistics/Decision Analysis

Sensitivity Analysis

Environomental Modeling

Risk Analysis

Probability Modeling

Publications:

Co-authored, "The Influence of Future Human Behaviors in Performance Assessment" in the Proceedings of the Waste Management Conference, Tucson, AZ, March 2010.

Co-authored, "Evaluation of Landfill Gas Decay Constant for Municipal Solid Waste Landfills Operated as Bioreactors" Journal of Air & Waste Management, 2010

Co-authored, "Now what – Is there more we can do with qualified data?" proceedings of the National Environmental Monitoring Conference, 2009.

Awards:

Awards from the DOE Waste Management Conference (1997 and 1999)

Courses:
Bayesian Environmental Statistics

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