Curriculum Vitae
Current Address
School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences
University of Washington, Box 355020
Seattle, WA 98195-5020
Phone (206) 221-7966 or 543-1708
FAX (206) 685-7471
conquest@u.washington.edu
Education
B.A. Mathematics, Pomona College - 1970 (Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude)
M.S. Statistics, Stanford University - 1972
Ph.D. Biostatistics, University of Washington - 1975
Positions
Associate Director, School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences, 2001 - present.
Professor, Center for Quant. Science/School of Aquatic & Fishery Science, Univ. of Washington, 1996-present. (Ass't./Assoc. Prof., 1978-96.)
Director, Univ. of Washington Teaching Academy, 1998-2001; currently Senior Fellow.
Assoc. Dean, College of Ocean & Fishery Sciences, Univ. of Washington, 1991-98.
Research Program
Development of statistical methods for design of environmental monitoring studies, including sampling issues; data analysis for streams/wetlands/watershed management studies; quantifying effects of human activities on watersheds; spatial and temporal sampling design for large-scale environmental monitoring studies.
Selected Activities and Awards
Chair-Elect, Chair, Past Chair, American Statistical Association's Section for Statistics and the Environment, 1998-2000.
National Research Council Committee to Review EPA's Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP), 1991-95.
Fellow, American Statistical Association (ASA), inducted 1993.
Distinguished Achievement Medal, ASA StatiStics/Environment Section, 1993.
Associate Editor, Biometrics (journal), 1989-1993.
Outstanding Teaching Awards, College of Ocean/Fishery Sciences, 1986, 1995.
University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award, 1987.
Senior Fellow, Univ. of Washington Teaching Academy, inducted 1998.
Twentieth Century Distinguished Service Award in Statistics & Ecology, Ninth Lukacs Symposium, 1999.
"Women Who Make a Difference" Award, Women of Color Technology Awards, 2000.
James and Mildred Oldfield/E.R. Jackman Award to the Pacific Northwest Ecosystem Consortium (UW/OSU/U of Oregon) for outstanding research in ecological management.
Selected Publications
Conquest, L. 1983. Assessing the statistical effectiveness of ecological experiments: utility of the coefficient of variation. International Journal of Environmental Studies 20:209-221.
Conquest, L., F. Taub. 1989. Repeatability and reproducibility of the standardized aquatic microcosm: statistical properties. Aquatic Toxicology and Hazard Assessment, Twelfth Volume:159-177.
McConnaughey, R. and L. Conquest. 1993. Trawl survey estimation using a comparative approach based on lognormal theory. Fishery Bulletin 91:107-118.
Conquest, L. 1993. Statistical approaches to environmental monitoring: did we teach the wrong things? Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 26:107-124.
Conquest, L., S. Ralph and R. Naiman. 1993. Implementation of large-scale stream monitoring efforts: sampling design and data analysis issues. In, Biological Monitoring of Freshwater Systems, S. Loeb and A. Spacie, Editors. Lewis Publishers, pp. 69-90.
Lange, N., L. Ryan, L. Billard, D. Brillinger, L. Conquest, J. Greenhouse (eds.) 1994. Case Studies in Biometry. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 496 pp. plus data disk.
Ralph., S., G. Poole, L. Conquest, R. Naiman. 1994. Stream channel morphology and woody debris in logged and unlogged basins. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 51: 37-51.
Fore, L., J. Karr, L. Conquest. 1994. Statistical properties of an index of biological integrity used to evaluate water resources. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 51: 1077-1087.
Conquest, L. R. Burr, R. Donnelly, V. Gallucci. 1995. Sampling methods for stock assessment of small-scale fisheries in developing countries. In, Quantitative Methods and Applications for Small-Scale Fisheries (V. Gallucci, S. Saila, D. Gustafson, B. Rothschild, eds.), CRC Press, pp. 181-228.
Conquest, L., S. Ralph. 1998. Statistical considerations for monitoring and assessment. In, Ecology and Management of Streams and Rivers of the Pacific Northwest Coastal Ecoregion (R. Naiman and R. Bilby, eds.). Springer-Verlag, pp. 455-475.
Melvin, E., J. Parrish, L. Conquest 1999. Novel tools to reduce seabird bycatch in coastal gillnet fisheries. Conservation Biology 13: 1386-1397.
Mode, N., L. Conquest, D. Marker. 1999. Ranked set sampling for ecological research: accounting for the total costs of sampling. Environmetrics 10:179-194.
Conquest, L. 2000. Environmental monitoring: investigating associations and trends. In, Statistics in Ecotoxicology, T. Sparks, Editor. John Wiley & Sons, pp. 179-210.
Doberstein, C., J. Karr, L. Conquest. 2000. The effect of fixed-count subsampling on macroinvertebrate biomonitoring in small streams. Freshwater Biology 44:355-371.
Conquest, L. 2000. Analysis and interpretation of ecological field data using BACI designs. Jl. of Agricultural, Biological, and Ecological Statistics 3: 293-297.
Gardner, S., C. Grue, W. Major III, L. Conquest. 2001. Aquatic invertebrate communities associated with purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria), cattail (Typha latifolia), and bulrush (Scirpus acutus) in central Washington, USA. Wetlands 21:593-601.
Gove, N., R. Edwards, L. Conquest. 2001. Effects of scale on land use and water quality relationship: a longitudinal basin-wide perspective. Jl. Of the American Water Resources Association 37:1721-1734.
McGraw, K., M. Castagna, L. Conquest. 2001. A study of the arkshell clams, Noetia ponderosa and Anadara ovalis, in the oceanside lagoons and tidal creeks of Virginia. Jl. Of Shellfish Research 20:185-195.
Conquest, L. 2002. Biomonitoring. Encyclopedia of Environmetrics, A. El-Shaarawi and W. Piegorsch, eds. John Wiley & Sons, Vol. 1:199-205.
Mode, N., L. Conquest, D. Marker. 2002. Incorporating prior knowledge in environmental sampling: ranked set sampling and other double sampling procedures. Environmetrics in press. 13 PP. + tables, figures.
Fox, M., S. Bolton, L. Conquest. 2002. Reference conditions for instreams wood in western Washington. In press, Restoration of Puget Sound Rivers, D. Montgomery, S. Bolton, D. Booth, eds. University of Washington Press, Seattle. 35 pp. + tables, figures.