168 The UMAP Journal 30.2 (2009) about the authors Sheila miller is an assistant Professor and day allow at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, NY. She holds a Ph. D in Mathematics from the University of Colorado, Boulder and does research in set theory, sea turtle population modeling, value of information, and change detection in social networks Melissa Garrenis currently a Ph. D can didatein marine biology at Scripps Institu tion of Oceanography in La Jolla, CA. She earned her B S in molecular biology from Yale University and her M.S. in marine bi- ology from Scripps Institution of Oceanog- raphy. Herresearch focuses on the ecologi- al response of microbes to organic coastal pollution, particularly in coral reef envi- conments, with the aim of understanding the effects on coral health and disease Rod Sturdivant is an associate Professor at the U.S. Mil itary Academy in West Point, NY. He earned aPh. D. in bio- statistics at the University of Massachusetts-Amherstand is currently program director for the probability and statistics course at West Point. He is also founder and director of the Center for Data Analysis and Statistics within the Dept Mathematical Sciences. His research interests are largely in applied statistics with an emphasis on hierarchical logistic168 The UMAP Journal 30.2 (2009) About the Authors Sheila Miller is an Assistant Professor and Davies Fellow at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, NY. She holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Colorado, Boulder and does research in set theory, sea turtle population modeling, value of information, and change detection in social networks. Melissa Garrenis currently a Ph.D. can￾didate inmarine biology at Scripps Institu￾tion of Oceanography in La Jolla, CA. She earned her B.S. in molecular biology from Yale University and her M.S. in marine bi￾ology from Scripps Institution of Oceanog￾raphy. Her research focuses on the ecologi￾cal response of microbes to organic coastal pollution, particularly in coral reef envi￾ronments, with the aim of understanding the effects on coral health and disease. Rod Sturdivant is an Associate Professor at the U.S. Mil￾itary Academy in West Point, NY. He earned a Ph.D. in bio￾statistics at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and is currently program director for the probability and statistics course at West Point. He is also founder and director of the Center for Data Analysis and Statistics within the Dept. of Mathematical Sciences. His research interests are largely in applied statistics with an emphasis on hierarchical logistic regression models