Dr. Cooley received his Ph.D. and Masters in Applied Mathematics from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2005 and 2002, respectively. Apart from being an Associate Professor, Dan is also a faculty member at the Colorado State University School of Environmental Sustainability. Most recently he was a visiting scholar in the Department of Statistics at University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. Dr. Cooley’s research interests include extreme value theory, modeling multivariate extremes, heavy tailed phenomena, spatial statistics, Bayesian modeling, and the meteorological/environmental and ecological applications of these. Dan has been published in many articles, technical reports, and workshop proceedings.