Kenneth H. Pollock, Professor of Statistics

KENNETH H. POLLOCK

Professor of Zoology, Biomathematics and Statistics

Fellow of the American Statistical Association

North Carolina State University

Raleigh NC 27695-7617 USA

Tel: 919-515-3514 (Zoology)

Fax: 919-515-4454 (Zoology)

Fall 2008 Classes
**ST 506 = Sampling Animal Populations

**Tentative Times Tu/Th 5.45pm-7.00pm First Class 5.45 pm Tues 26 August, DCL 102.

Education:

B.S. in Agriculture( Hons), University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 1968.
M.S. in Biological Statistics, Cornell University,Ithaca, New York USA, 1972.
Ph. D in Biological Statistics, Cornell University,Ithaca, New York USA, 1974.

Research Interests:

Sampling Theory, Survey Methodology especially for Angler Surveys, Statistical and Population Ecology, Statistical and Mathematical Modelling of Wildlife and Fisheries Populations.

Publications: Books and Monographs

Burnham, K.P., Anderson, D.R., White, G.C., Brownie, C. & Pollock, K.H. (1987). Design and analysis methods for fish survival experiments based on release-recapture. American Fisheries Society Monographs 5. Bethesda, MD.

Pollock, K.H., Nichols, J.D., Brownie, C., & Hines, J.E. (1990). Statistical inference for capture-recapture experiments. Wildlife Society Monographs (#107).

Guthries, D., J.M. Hoenig, M. Holliday, C.M. Jones, M.J. Mills, S.A. Moberly, K.H. Pollock, & D.R. Talhelm (Eds., 1991). Creel and angler surveys in fisheries management. American Fisheries Symposium 12. Bethesda, MD.

Pollock, K.H., Jones, C.M., & Brown, T.L. (1994). Angler surveys and their application to fisheries management. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 25. Bethesda, MD.

MacKenzie, D. I., Nichols, J. D., Royle, J. A., Pollock, K. H., Bailey, L. L., and Hines, J. E. (2005). Occupancy Estimation and Modeling : Inferring Patterns and Dynamics of Species Occurrence. Elsevier, San Diego.

Publications: Some Recent Articles ( Total ~200 refereed)

          Pollock, K. H., Jiang, H. and Hightower, J. E. (2004). Combining Radio-Telemetry and Fisheries TaggingModels to Estimate Fishing and Natural Mortality Rates. Trans. American Fisheries Society, 133:639-648.

             Bailey, L. L., T. R. Simons, and K. H. Pollock.(2004). Estimating detectability parameters for plethodon salamanders using the robust capture-recapture design. Journal of Wildlife Management, 68: 1-13.

             Bailey, L. L., T. R. Simons, and K. H. Pollock.(2004). Spatial and temporal variation in detection probability plethodon salamanders using robust capture-recapture design. Journal of Wildlife Management, 68: 14-24.
              Pollock, K. H., Marsh, H., Bailey, L. L., Farnsworth, G. L., Simons, T. L., and Alldredge, M. W. (2004) Separating components of detection probability in abundance estimation: An overview with diverse examples. In W. L                 Thompson Ed. Sampling Rare and Elusive Species: Concepts, Designs and Techniques for Estimating Population Parameters. Island Press, Washington D. C.

              Pollock, K. H. and Alpizar-Jara, R. (2005). Open capture-recapture models. In S. C. Amstrup, T. L. McDonald and B. F. J. Manly Eds. The Handbook of Capture-Recapture Analysis. Princeton University Press.

            Hoenig, J. M., Pollock, K. H. and Hearn, W. S. (2005). Tag-return models In S. C. Amstrup, T. L. McDonald and B. F. J. Manly Eds. The Handbook of Capture-Recapture Analysis. Princeton University Press.

            Pollock, K. H., Marsh, H., Lawler, I. and Alldredge, M. W. (2006). Modeling availability and perception processes for strip and line transects: an application to dugong aerial surveys. Journal of Wildlife Management.

Jiang, H., Pollock, K. H., Brownie, C., Hoenig, J. M., Latour, R. J., and Hightower, J.E. (2007). Tag return models allowing for harvest and catch and release: evidence of environmental and management impacts on striped bass fishing and natural mortality rates. North American Journal of Fisheries Management.

Jiang, H., Brownie, C., Hightower, J. E., and Pollock, K. H. (2007). Estimating fishing mortality, natural mortality, and selectivity using recoveries from tagging young fish. North American Journal of Fisheries Management.

Pollock, K. H. and Pine III, W. E. (2007). The design and analysis of field studies to estimate catch-and-release mortality. Fisheries Management and Ecology, 14.

Pollock, K. H, J. Yoshizaki, M. C. Fabrizio, and S.T. Schram (2007). Survival Rates of Lake Trout Estimated by a Mark-Recapture Study in Lake Superior, 1969-1996.Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 136, 185-194.

Edwards, H. H., Pollock, K. H., Ackerman, B. B., Reynolds, J. E. III, and Powell, J. A. (2007). Components of detection probability in manatee aerial surveys in winter. Journal of Wildlife Management.

Webster, R. A., Pollock, K. H., and Simons, T. R. (2007). Bayesian spatial modeling of data from bird surveys. Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics.

Webster, R. A., Pollock, K. H., Ghosh, S. K. and Hankin, D. G. (2007). Bayesian spatial modeling of data from unit-count surveys of fish in streams. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society.

"Bird Radio Papers" (Research Project with Ted Simons)

Simons, T.R., M.W. Alldredge, and K.H. Pollock. (2007). Experimental analysis of the auditory detection process on avian point counts. The Auk.

Alldredge, M. W., K. H. Pollock, and T. R. Simons (2006). Estimating detection probabilities from multiple-observer point counts. The Auk 123, 1172-1182.

Alldredge, M.W., K.H. Pollock, T.R. Simons, J.A. Collazo, and S.A. Shriner. (2007). Time of detection method for estimating abundance from point count surveys. The Auk.

Alldredge, M.W., T.R. Simons, and K.H. Pollock. (2007). Factors affecting aural detections of songbirds. Ecological Applications.

Alldredge, M.W., T.R. Simons, and K.H. Pollock. (2007). An experimental evaluation of distance measurement error in avian point count surveys. Journal of Wildlife Management.

Alldredge, M.W., K.H. Pollock, T.R. Simons, and S.A. Shriner. (2007). Multiple species analysis of point count data: a more parsimonious modeling framework. Journal of Applied Ecology.

Former Ph. D Students NCSU:

        John M. Witzig. 1988. "The Visual Assessment of Reef Fish Communities". (Zoology).
      Mark S. Udevitz. 1989. "Change-in-Ratio Methods for Estimating the Size of Closed Populations". (Statistics/Biomathematics).
        Michael A. O'Connell. 1991. "Contingency Table Models for Estimation of the Size of a Partitioned Population". (Statistics).
        William L. Kendall. 1992. "Robust Design in Capture-Recapture Sampling: Modelling Approaches and Estimation Methods." (Biomathematics)
        Wayne L. Cornelius. 1993. "An Avian Nest Survival Modeling Scheme and Comparisons of Nest Survival Probability Estimation Methods." (Statistics/Biomathematics).
      William R. Gould. 1994. "New Developments in Catch Effort Estimation of Important Demographic Parameters." (Biomathematics)
      Chiu-Lan Chen. 1995. "New Developments in Change-in-Ratio Estimation of Population Size." (Biomathematics)
      Kuenhi Tsai. 1996. "Survival Analysis for Telemetry Data in Animal Studies." (Statistics/Biomathematics).
        Dawn E. Haines. 1997. "Estimating Population Parameters Using Multiple Frame and Capture-Recapture Methodology." (Statistics).
        Russell Alpizar-Jara. 1997. "Assessing Assumption Violations in Line Transect Sampling." (Biomathematics).
        Cynthia J. Coffman. 1997. "The Effects of Corridor-Linked Patches on Meta Population Dynamics: A Field Experiment with Microtus   pennsylvanicus." (Biomathematics).
        Robert J. Latour. 2000. "Population Modelling of Red Drum in South Carolina Waters". (Biomathematics).
        Katherine Potak.   2000. "Population dynamics of Atlantic Sturgeon".(Zoology).
        Marlina D. Nasution. 2000. " Estimating Survival from Joint Analysis of Resighting and Radio-Telemetry Data in Wildlife Populations." (Statistics).
        George G. Brown. 2001. "Bayesian Methods for Open Capture-Recapture Models." (Statistics).
        Elizabeth N. Brooks. 2001. " Dynamics and Management of Sub-Divided Populations" (Biomathematics).
        Mijeom Joe. 2001.   " Stage-Structured Tag-Return and Capture-Recapture Models" ( Biomathematics).
        Larissa L. Bailey. 2002. "Estimating Detection Probabilities for Terrestrial Salamanders in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. "(Zoology ).
        Mathew W. Alldredge. 2004. "Avian Point Count Surveys: Estimating Components of the Detection Process."(Biomathematics/Zoology).
        Honghua Jiang. 2005. " Age- Dependent Tag-Return Models for Estimating Fishing Mortality, Natural Mortality, and Selectivity." (Biomathematics/ Statistics).
        Raymond A. Webster. 2005. " Spatial Modeling of Detection and Abundance from Count Surveys of Animal Populations." (Statistics).
        Jun Yoshizaki. 2007. "Use of Natural Tags in Closed Population Capture-Recapture Studies: Modeling Misidentification." (Biomathematics/ Zoology)
       Emily Hohmeister Griffith. 2008. "Catch Curve and Capture Recapture Models: A Bayesian Combined Approach."

Current Graduate Students and Postdocs:

        Jason Riddle -Postdoctoral Fellow Zoology
        Megan Supple- M.S. Biomathematics
        Matthew Krachey- Ph. D Biomathematics/ Zoology
        Matt Ritter- Ph. D Statistics
        Steve Stanislav- Ph. D Statistics
        Zhi Wen-Ph. D Statistics/ Operations Research

Some Awards:

Best paper award for 1989 from the Wildlife Society for the article "Survival analysis in telemetry studies: the staggered entry design" which appeared in the Journal of Wildlife Management.

Best monograph award for 1990 from the Wildlife Society for the monograph "Statistical inference for capture-recapture experiments", Wildlife Monograph No. 107.

George W. Snedecor Memorial Award, August 1991, American Statistical Association for the best publication in Biometrics for "Statistical inference for capture-recapture experiments," Wildlife Monograph No. 107.

Best paper award for 1993, from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for "Estimating transition probabilities for stage based population projection matrices using capture-recapture data," which appeared in Ecology in 1992.

Distinguished achievement award from American Statistical Association Section on Statistics and the Environment, August 1994.

Elected as a member of the International Statistical Institute in September 1995.

Elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in August, 1996.

David Mason Award for Best Faculty Member in Statistics 1996, North Carolina State University.

Fellowship to Visit Bureau of Resource Sciences, Canberra, Australia, July - December 1997.

Ninth Lukacs Symposium, Bowling Green, Ohio, April 24, 1999. Twentieth Century Distinguished Service Award in Environmental Statistics.

Recent Professional Service:

Associate Editor, Journal of Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 1994-

Member of International Review Panel for the North American Breeding Bird Survey for USGS Biological Resource Division, 1999-2000.

Associate Editor, American Statistician , 2000-2002.

Associate Editor, Biometrics, 1984-1989, 2000-2004
Member of a National Review Panel on The Status of the Florida Mantee 2002-2003.

Member National Research Council Review Panel on Recreational Fisheries Survey Methods 2005-2006.

Previous Positions:

Lecturer, Applied Statistics Department, University of Reading, England 1974-78.
Asst. Prof., Statistics Division., Univ. of California at Davis, California 1978-1980.
Associate Professor, Statistics Department, NCSU, 1980-1987.
Director of Biomathematics Graduate Program, 1995-1999, 2000-2001.

NCSU Graduate Courses Taught in Recent Years:

ST 715 = Sampling Theory

ZO 590R / ST 592R Design Of Ecological Field Studies

ST 432 Sampling

Important Links:

NCSU

Ecology Graduate Group Website

Societies

    International Biometric Society
    The Wildlife Society
    American Fisheries Society
    Ecological Society of America
    American Statistical Association