Ben
Allshouse
Ph.D. Student Phone: (919) 818 8632 |
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Education
- Ph.D. Student in Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Advisor: Dr. Marc Serre.
- Master of Statistics (Environmental Statistics Concentration), North Carolina State University, 2004.
- Bachelor of Science in Public Health in Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2002.
Honors and Associations
- Member of Mu Sigma Rho (Statistical Honor Society)
- Member of the American Public Health Association
- Member of the American Statistical Association
- Member of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology
Research Interests
- Exposure Assessment and Spatiotemporal Mapping
- Bayesian Maximum Entropy (BME) Analysis
- Environmental Statistics
- Environmental Epidemiology
Research and Teaching Positions
- Research Assistant, Current.
- Superfund Trainee in Environmental Science, 2004-2005.
- Teaching Assistant for Graduate-level Statistical Methods (SAS Lab), North Carolina State University, 2003-2004.
- Computer Programmer, Survey Research Unit, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001-2002.
Projects
- Exposure Assessment of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons following the World Trade Center disaster with Dr. Marc Serre.
- Assessment of Hydrogen Sulfide as an Indicator for Health/Quality of Life Effects in Eastern North Carolina with Dr. Steven Wing and Dr. Marc Serre.
- Spatiotemporal Modeling of
Sexually Transmitted Infections in
Publications
- Allshouse WB, Serre ML, Pleil J, Rappaport SM. Submitted August 2008. Mass fraction spatiotemporal geostatistics and its application to map atmospheric polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons after 9/11. Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology.
Presentations
- Allshouse WB. Space/time modeling
of hydrogen sulfide from hog CAFOs in Eastern
North Carolina, Environmental Sciences & Engineering Departmental
Seminar Series,
- Allshouse W, Serre M, Hall D, Mills K, Wing S. Community based monitoring of ambient hydrogen sulfide levels near swine operations, 2007 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Exposition, Washington, November 2007. Poster Presentation.
- Fitch M, Allshouse W, Serre M,
- Allshouse W, Serre M, Hall D, Mills K, Wing S. Assessment of hydrogen sulfide exposure for a community with a high density of industrial hog operations, 2007 Conference of the International Society of Exposure Analysis, Durham, October 2007. Poster Presentation.
- Allshouse W, Serre M, Hall D, Mills K, Wing S. Spatiotemporal
Bayesian Maximum Entropy modeling of hydrogen sulfide concentrations using
data collected at different observation time scales near swine operations,
2007 Joint Statistical Meetings,
- Allshouse WB, Serre ML, Pleil J, Rappaport SM. A space/time particulate matter mass fraction framework for the assessment of outdoor exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons after 9/11 in New York City, 2006 International Conference on Environmental Epidemiology and Exposure, Paris, September 2006. Poster Presentation.
Academics
- Graduate Course Work
at UNC-Chapel Hill
- Graduate Course Work at North Carolina State University
- Undergraduate Course Work at UNC-Chapel Hill
Awards