Continuing professional development

Continuing professional development (CPD) is essential for environmental statisticians as new statistical techniques are always evolving, often driven by advances in computing. It is also important to keep up to date with the rapid advances in environmental science, which often require new statistical approaches. Usually CPD is carried out through activities such as attending and presenting work at conferences and studying and contributing to research journals.

The Environmental Statistics Section of the Royal Statistical Society provides a forum for seminars of interest to environmental statisticians and has also run tutorial meetings and workshops of relevance to the discipline.

Your professional work as a statistician might well benefit from the professional qualification of Chartered Statistician (CStat), which would give you a professional affiliation with the Royal Statistical Society.

At the international level, membership of The International Environmetrics Society (TIES) will connect you to a worldwide network of statisticians working in the environment. TIES runs a series of conferences around the world. The group Statistics in Public Resources and Utilities, and Care of the Environment (SPRUCE) also runs international conferences and advanced workshops in environmental statistics.