This volume brings together selected contributions from geoENV 2008, the 7th International Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Applications, held in Southampton, UK. It presents the state-of-the-art in geostatistics for the environmental sciences.

Current state-of-the-art in geostatistics for environmental applications Unique reference series Collects recent advances in geostatistics for environmental applications in one easy-to-read volume Includes many of the world's leading authors in geostatistics for environmental applications Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Geostatistical Modelling of Wildlife Populations: A Non-stationary Hierarchical Model for Count Data.- Incorporating Survey Data to Improve SpaceTime Geostatistical Analysis of King Prawn Catch Rate.- Multivariate Interpolation of Monthly Precipitation Amount in the United Kingdom.- Extreme Precipitation Modelling Using Geostatistics and Machine Learning Algorithms.- On Geostatistical Analysis of Rainfall Using Data from Boundary Sites.- Geostatistics Applied to the City of Porto Urban Climatology.- Integrating Meteorological Dynamic Data and Historical Data into a Stochastic Model for Predicting Forest Fires Risk Maps.- Using Geostatistical Methods in the Analysis of Public Health Data: The Final Frontier?.- Second-Order Analysis of the Spatio-temporal Distribution of Human Campylobacteriosis in Preston, Lancashire.- Application of Geostatistics in Cancer Studies.- Blocking Markov Chain Monte Carlo Schemes for Inverse Stochastic Hydrogeological Modeling.- Simulation of Fine-Scale Heterogeneity of Meandering River Aquifer Analogues: Comparing Different Approaches.- Application of Multiple-Point Geostatistics on Modelling Groundwater Flow and Transport in a Cross-Bedded Aquifer.- Assessment of the Impact of Pollution by Arsenic in the Vicinity of Panasqueira Mine (Portugal).- Simulation of Continuous Variables at Meander Structures: Application to Contaminated Sediments of a Lagoon.- Joint SpaceTime Geostatistical Model for Air Quality Surveillance/Monitoring System.- Geostatistical Methods for Polluted Sites Characterization.- Geostatistical Mapping of Outfall Plume Dispersion Data Gathered with an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle.- Change of the A Priori Stochastic Structure in the Conditional Simulation of Transmissivity Fields.- Geostatistical Interpolation ofSoil Properties in Boom Clay in Flanders.- An Examination of Transformation Techniques to Investigate and Interpret Multivariate Geochemical Data Analysis: Tellus Case Study.- Shelling in the First World War Increased the Soil Heavy Metal Concentration.- A Geostatistical Analysis of Rubber Tree Growth Characteristics and Soil Physical Attributes.- Investigating the Potential of Area-to-Area and Area-to-Point Kriging for Defining Management Zones for Precision Farming of Cranberries.- Estimating the Local Small Support Semivariogram for Use in Super-Resolution Mapping.- Modeling Spatial Uncertainty for Locally Uncertain Data.- Spatial Interpolation Using Copula-Based Geostatistical Models.- Exchanging Uncertainty: Interoperable Geostatistics?.- Hierarchical Bayesian Model for Gaussian, Poisson and Ordinal Random Fields.- Detection of Optimal Models in Parameter Space with Support Vector Machines.- Robust Automatic Mapping Algorithms in a Network Monitoring Scenario.- Parallel Geostatistics for Sparse and Dense Datasets.- Multiple Point Geostatistical Simulation with Simulated Annealing: Implementation Using Speculative Parallel Computing.- Application of Copulas in Geostatistics.- Integrating Prior Knowledge and Locally Varying Parameters with Moving-GeoStatistics: Methodology and Application to Bathymetric Mapping.