Appendix

Biographical Sketches of the Panel

SUDIPTO BANERJEE is a professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the Fielding School of Public Health and in the Department of Statistics at the College of Physical Sciences with an affiliate appointment at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. He is also senior associate dean for academic programs at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Other previous leadership experience includes serving as chair of the Department of Biostatistics and as president of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis. Banerjee’s research expertise includes Bayesian hierarchical modeling and inference for complex systems involving massive data sets (“BIG DATA”); environmental processes and their impact on public health; spatial data science; spatial epidemiology; stochastic process models; statistical learning from physical and mechanistic systems; survey sampling; and survival analysis. He has served as principal investigator of over 14 major federally funded research projects from the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation, primarily devoted to the advancement of statistical theories and methods for space-time processes and their substantive impact. Banerjee’s research and scholarship has been recognized with honors such as the Abdel El-Shaarawi Award from The International Environmetric Society, the Mortimer Spiegelman Award from the American Public Health Association, the George W. Snedecor Award from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies, and the Jerome W. Sacks Award from the National Institute of Statistical Science. He is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, elected fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the American Statistical Association (ASA), the International Society

for Bayesian Analysis, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Banerjee has been recognized with a Distinguished Achievement Medal from the ASA’s Section on Statistics and the Environment, and the ASA’s Outstanding Statistical Application Award. He received a B.S. with honors from Presidency College and a master’s in statistics from the Indian Statistical Institute, and both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in statistics from the University of Connecticut. He served as a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s committee on Affordability of National Flood Insurance Program Premiums, participating in writing two reports.

JILL M. DEMATTEIS is a principal sampling statistician at Fors Marsh. Prior to joining Fors Marsh, she served as a vice president and senior statistical fellow at Westat and as a mathematical statistician at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. DeMatteis was also an associate research professor in the Joint Program in Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland. Her expertise is in survey sampling statistics and methodology. DeMatteis has designed samples, computed survey weights, advised on analytic methods, and conducted methodological research for numerous household surveys, surveys of program participants, student assessments, and establishment surveys. Her particular areas of interest include address-based sampling, coverage and non-response error, and sample design and estimation for longitudinal surveys. DeMatteis is a fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. She has held many positions in the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) and in the ASA, including having served as president of the Washington Statistical Society; chair of both the Survey Research Methods Section and the Government Statistics Section; and co-chair of the Joint AAPOR/ASA Task Force on Data Falsification. She received a B.A. in mathematics and economics from Ashland College, an M.S. in statistics from Miami University, and a Ph.D. in statistics from American University.

NED ENGLISH is associate director of the Methodology & Quantitative Social Sciences Department at NORC at the University of Chicago. He is responsible for the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) team at NORC, in addition to project management and sample design on numerous studies across disciplines. Formally trained as a geographer, English has diverse theoretical and applied experience in the areas of GIS and data analysis with respect to survey methodology and sample design, especially in the context of address-based sampling (ABS). He has expertise in ABS for in-person and multi-mode surveys. English’s approaches typically include using extant data sources at multiple geographic levels to enhance geocoded address

frames to improve survey efficiency and coverage. He also was a member of the American Association of Public Opinion Research ABS Task Force and serves as standards chair. He has a B.S. in geography from McGill University and an M.S. in geography from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

CYNTHIA M. JONES retired as a professor from the Department of Ocean and Earth Sciences at Old Dominion University in 2021. She pioneered work in fish age evaluation, otolith (fish earbone) chemistry, and recreational fisheries. Jones has co-authored Angler Survey Methods and Their Applications in Fisheries Management and has developed new statistical estimators to evaluate complex fisheries. She has designed and conducted angler surveys in the United States, Sweden, and Australia. Some of Jones’ honors include fellow of the American Fisheries Society, fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, outstanding professor, State Council for Higher Education in Virginia, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching-Virginia Professor of the Year, Outstanding Virginia Scientist, and Fulbright Senior Scholar to Australia. She graduated with a B.A. in zoology from the honors program at Boston University, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Jones earned an M.S. and Ph.D. at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography. She completed a postdoctoral study at Cornell University, where she led the New York Great Lakes Angler Survey, a comprehensive survey of New York’s Great Lakes and tributaries. Jones has served on numerous National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine study committees, including serving as co-chair for the Committee on the Review of the Marine Recreational Information Program; chair for the Committee for Review of the National Marine Fisheries Service: Use of Science and Data Management and Litigation; and member of the Committee on Fish Stock Assessment Methods, the Committee on Improving the Collection and Use of Fisheries Data, and the Ocean Studies Board.

THOMAS J. MILLER is a professor of fisheries science and former director of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES)’s founding campus, the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory in Solomons, Maryland. He has been a leader in the development of approaches to manage several Chesapeake Bay species, including crabs and menhaden, combining laboratory, field, and modeling approaches to address questions of interest to society. Most recently, his research has focused on both the effects of ocean acidification on blue crab, recruitment issues in menhaden and striped bass, and stakeholder involvement in recreational fisheries. Miller has been the recipient of the President’s Award for the Application of Science at UMCES and received the University System of Maryland Regents’ Faculty Award for Public Service. He is the only two-time recipient of

the Graduate Education Award for excellence in teaching from the Marine Estuarine Environmental Sciences program at the University of Maryland. Miller serves on the Scientific and Statistical Committee for the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council. He also serves as scientific advisor to the Potomac River Fisheries Commission. Miller earned a B.S. in human and environmental biology from University of York, an M.S. in ecology and a Ph.D. in zoology, and oceanography both from North Carolina State University. He has served as a member on numerous National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine study committees including CrossCutting Themes for U.S. Contributions to the Ocean Decade; the Review of the Marine Recreational Information Program; and the Sustainable Water and Environmental Management in the California’s Bay-Delta.

SEAN P. POWERS is director of the Stokes School of Marine and Environmental Sciences at the University of South Alabama and a senior marine scientist at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab. His research focuses on the ecology of marine fish and invertebrates, particularly those that support commercial and recreational fisheries. The ultimate goal of Powers’ research program is to provide scientifically sound information to direct conservation and restoration efforts of marine fisheries and habitats. His work has engaged a variety of groups including federal and state resource agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and regional and national conservation and sportsman groups in an effort to develop sustainable management practices for marine resources. Powers currently conducts research projects across the Gulf of Mexico, Alaska, and the Galapagos Islands. He currently serves on the Gulf Fishery Management Council’s Science and Statistical Committee. Powers received a B.S. from Loyola University, an M.S. from the University of New Orleans, and a Ph.D. in biology and oceanography from Texas A&M University. Following his Ph.D., he was a National Sea Grant John Knauss Marine Policy Fellow and completed postdoctoral training at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Institute of Marine Sciences. Powers has served on four National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine study committees, including the Committee on the Use of Limited Access Privilege Programs for Mixed-Use Fisheries and the Committee on the Review of the Marine Recreational Information Program.