Research interests

• Statistical techniques for remote sensing data
• Bootstrap and resampling techniques
• Sampling design
• Statistical Consulting

Background

Amrit Kathuria is Project Officer, Biometrics with the Forest Resources Research Unit. She has over seventeen years of experience working as a Biometrician / consultant statistician in research organisations, covering a wide spectrum of fields; agriculture, fisheries, health, financial surveys, socio-economic surveys, environmental research and forestry research. 

Her main responsibilities include providing advice on project design, data analysis and interpretation of results for a number of different research projects in the department, analysing data and report writing for research, reviewing and providing feedback for the statistical methodology sections of technical reports and projects and preparing and delivery of software based statistical training courses and encouraging correct application of statistical methodology and software.

Qualifications

• B.Sc. (Hons) (Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry) - 1985
• M.Sc. (Major: Statistics, Minor: Computers and Genetics) - 1987
• Ph.D. (Major: Statistics, Minor: Computers and Genetics) - 1990

Current projects

• Association of Bell miners with the TDI, structure and species variables
• Power Pole Evaluation Research
• Valuation of NSW Conifer Forests 2007
• Carbon Estimation model: Forest NSW
• Developing statistical software training for Forest research
• Biometrical Consulting

Recent Publications

Russell R, and Kathuria A (2008) Forest health assessment with satellite multi-spectral imagery in the Gunbower-Koondrook-Perricoota Icon Site (GKPIS) Technical Report

Ximenes FA, Gardner DW, Kathuria A and Marchant JF (2007) Biomass in commercial logs and residues following the harvest of five commercial forest species in Australia. Submitted to Forest Ecology and Management

Bowling LC, Kathuria A Crosslé K, Harris K, Holiday J (2007) Impacts of increasing salinity on freshwater cyanobacteria and microalgae. Submitted Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Management

Rancic A, Johnston B, Kathuria A, Beale G, Salas G, Smithson A (2006) Climatic influence on shallow fractured rock groundwater systems in the Murray-Darling Basin, NSW. Report submitted to DNR, March 2006.

Rancic A, Acworth RI, Kathuria A, Salas G and Johnston B (2006) Effect of rainfall on groundwater trends over the past century in fractured rocks of the New England Fold Belt in the Namoi Catchment, NSW. Conference presentation

Webb A and Kathuria A (2006) Discussion paper on the Yambulla power analysis and calculation of effect size for sediment-related monitoring programs. Submitted to DEC.

Hawkins P, Holliday J, Kathuria A, Bowling L (2005) Change in cyanobacterial biovolume due to preservation by Lugol’s Iodine, Harmful Algae 4:1033–1043.

Kathuria A (2005) Review of ‘Snowy River Flow Monitoring Project: Changes in Vegetation Communities after the First Flow Release To the Snowy River Downstream of Jindabyne Dam’ By Centre For Environmental Management, School of Information Technology And Mathematical Sciences, University Of Ballarat. Report to the Department of Natural Resources, September, 2005.

Professional associations and activities

• Member - Statistical Society of Australia Inc.
• Member - Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics

Fields of Research

• 010402 Biostatistics

Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)

Keyword/phrase list of research interests

• Multivariate analysis
• Graphical methods for data analysis
• Sampling design
• Data mining
• Statistical consulting