School of Science

Associate Dean (Research)

Qualifications

• Graduate Certificate in Higher Education, Edith Cowan University, 2012.
• Doctor of Philosophy, Germany, 1987.
• Master of Science, Canada, 1985.
• Master of Science, Germany, 1983.

Research

Recent Research Grants

• Integrated state-wide survey of recreational fishing Phase 2: boat- and shore based activity ,  Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development,  Grant,  2015 - 2020,  $3,761,142.
• CodaBlockCoEstimation,  Edith Cowan University,  Australia-Germany JRC Scheme (UA-DAAD),  2016 - 2018,  $19,000.
• Machine Learning Approaches for Exploration Prospectivity Analysis,  BHP Billiton Group Operations Pty Ltd,  AMSI Intern Program Grant,  2017,  $20,500.
• Boat -based recreational boat fishing activity in Western Australia: a long term profile,  Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development,  Grant,  2010 - 2015,  $2,407,195.
• Foundational aspects for a research consortium on health, water and landscapes: a database and a learning network,  Edith Cowan University,  ECU Development Grant,  2013 - 2015,  $80,624.
• The use of Geostatistical Simulation in Mine Planning,  RIO Tinto (Technological Resources Pty Ltd),  Grant,  2010 - 2012,  $24,319.
• Space-time analysis of western king prawns, brown tiger prawns and saucer scallops in Shark Bay for improved fisheries management,  Fisheries Research and Development Corporation,  Fisheries R&D Corporation - Grant,  2005 - 2009,  $196,895.
• Spatiotemporal modelling of the prawn and scallop catch and fishing effort in the Shark Bay fishery in Western Australia,  Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development,  Grant,  2003 - 2005,  $40,000.

Recent Publications (within the last five years)

Book Chapters

• Talebi, H., Lo, J., Mueller, U., (2017), A Hybrid Model for Joint Simulation of High-Dimensional Continuous and Categorical Variables. Geostatistics Valencia 2016, Quantitative Geology and Geostatistics 19, 19(67), 415-430, Cham, Switzerland, Springer, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-46819-8_28.
• Mueller, U., Van Den Boogaart, KG., Tolosana Delgado, R., (2017), A Truly Multivariate Normal Score Transform Based on Lagrangian Flow. Geostatistics Valencia 2016, Quantitative Geology and Geostatistics 19, 19(67), 107-118, Cham, Switzerland, Springer, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-46819-8_7.

Journal Articles

• Talebi, H., Mueller, U., Tolosana Delgado, R., (2019), Joint simulation of compositional and categorical data via direct sampling technique–Application to improve mineral resource confidence. Computers and Geosciences, 122(1), 87-102, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2018.10.013.
• Lai, E., Mueller, U., Hyndes, G., Ryan, KL., (2019), Comparing estimates of catch and effort for boat-based recreational fishing from aperiodic access-point surveys. Fisheries Research, 219(2019), 105305, DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2019.06.003.
• McKinley, J., Grunsky, E., Mueller, U., (2018), Environmental Monitoring and Peat Assessment Using Multivariate Analysis of Regional-Scale Geochemical Data. Mathematical Geosciences, 50(2), 235-246, DOI: 10.1007/s11004-017-9686-x.
• Arias-Ortiz, A., Serrano Gras, O., Masque Barri, P., Lavery, P., Mueller, U., Kendrick, G., Rozaimi, M., Esteban Pacheco, A., Fourqurean, J., Marba, N., Mateo, M., Murray, K., Rule, MJ., Duarte, C., (2018), A marine heatwave drives massive losses from the world’s largest seagrass carbon stocks. Nature Climate Change, 8(4), 338-344, DOI: 10.1038/s41558-018-0096-y.
• Kavazos, C., Huggett, M., Mueller, U., Horwitz, P., (2018), Bacterial and ciliate biofilm community structure at different spatial levels of a salt lake meta-community. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 94(10), article no. fiy148, DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiy148.
• Sowden, M., Mueller, U., Blake, D., (2018), Review of surface particulate monitoring of dust events using geostationary satellite remote sensing. Atmospheric Environment, 183(June 2018), 154-164, DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2018.04.020.
• Grunsky, E., Caritat, Pd., Mueller, U., (2017), Using surface regolith geochemistry to map the major crustal blocks of the Australian continent. Gondwana Research, 46(2), 227-239, DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2017.02.011.
• Van Den Boogaart, KG., Mueller, U., Tolosana Delgado, R., (2017), An Affine Equivariant Multivariate Normal Score Transform for Compositional Data. Mathematical Geosciences, 49(2), 232-251, Springer, DOI: 10.1007/s11004-016-9645-y.
• Aboagye-Sarfo, P., Cross, J., Mueller, U., (2017), Intervention time series analysis of voluntary, counselling and testing on HIV infections in West African sub-region: the case of Ghana. Journal of Applied Statistics, 44(4), 571-582, DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2016.1177501.
• Kavazos, C., Huggett, M., Mueller, U., Horwitz, P., (2017), Biogenic processes or terrigenous inputs? Permanent water bodies of the Northern Ponds in the Lake MacLeod basin of Western Australia. Marine and Freshwater Research, 68(7), 1366-1376, Victoria, Australia, CSIRO Publishing, DOI: 10.1071/MF16233.
• Mueller, U., Grunsky, E., (2016), Multivariate spatial analysis of lake sediment geochemical data; Melville Peninsula, Nunavut, Canada. Applied Geochemistry, 75(2016), 247–262, Elsevier Ltd, DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2016.02.007.
• Aidoo, E., Mueller, U., Hyndes, G., Ryan, K., (2016), The effects of measurement uncertainty on spatial characterisation of recreational fishing catch rates. Fisheries Research, 181(1), 1-13, Elsevier B.V., DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2016.03.022.
• Jenkins, A., Jupiter, S., Mueller, U., Jenney, A., Vosaki, G., Rosa, V., Naucukidi, A., Mulholland, K., Strugnell, R., Kama, M., Horwitz, P., (2016), Health at the sub-catchment scale: Typhoid & its environmental determinants in Central Division, Fiji. Ecohealth, 13(4), 633-651, New York, USA, Springer, DOI: 10.1007/s10393-016-1152-6.
• Tolosana-Delgado, R., Mueller, U., Van Den Boogaart, KG., Ward, C., Gutzmer, J., (2015), Improving processing by adaption to conditional geostatistical simulation of block compositions. The Journal of The Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 115(1), 13-26, Johannesburg, South Africa, Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.
• Aidoo, E., Mueller, U., Goovaerts, P., Hyndes, G., (2015), Evaluation of geostatistical estimators and their applicability to characterise the spatial patterns of recreational fishing catch rates. Fisheries Research, 168(2015), 20-32, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Elsevier, DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2015.03.013.
• Aboagye-Sarfo, P., Mueller, U., Cross, J., (2015), The impact of the activities of Ghana AIDS Commission on new HIV infections in Ghana: An intervention time series analysis. HIV & AIDS Review, 14(4), 97-103, Warsaw, Poland, Elsevier Urban & Partner Sp. z o.o., DOI: 10.1016/j.hivar.2015.03.003.
• Grunsky, EC., Mueller, U., Corrigan, D., (2014), A study of the lake sediment geochemistry of the Melville Peninsula using multivariatemethods: Applications for predictive geological mapping. Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 141(Special), 15-41, DOI: 10.1016/j.gexplo.2013.07.013.

Conference Publications

• Van Den Boogaart, KG., Tolosana Delgado, R., Mueller, U., Matos Camacho, S., (2016), How details of the geometallurgical optimisation influence overall value. GeoMet 2016 Proceedings, 303-314, Carlton, Victoria, The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.
• Van Den Boogaart, K., Tolosana-Delgado, R., Mueller, U., (2015), An affine equivariant anamorphosis for compositional data. Proceedings of IAMG 2015 - 17th Annual Conference of the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences, 1302-1311, International Association for Mathematical Geosciences.
• Aidoo, E., Mueller, U., Hyndes, G., Ryan, K., (2015), Propagation of measurement uncertainty in spatial characterisation of recreational fishing catch rates using logistic transform indicator kriging. MODSIM2015, 21st International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, 145-151, Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand.
• Mueller, U., Lo, J., De Caritat, P., Grunsky, E., (2014), Structural analysis of the National Geochemistry Survey of Australia Data. Mathematics of Planet Earth, Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences, 99-102, Heidelberg, Germany, Springer, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32408-6_24.
• Tolosana-Delgado, R., Mueller, U., Van Den Boogaart, KG., Ward, C., (2014), Compositional Block Co-Kriging. Mathematics of Planet Earth, Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the International Association of Geosciences, 713-716, Heidelberg, Germany, Springer, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32408-6_154.
• Tolosana-Delgado, R., Mueller, U., Van Den Boogaart, KG., (2014), Compositionally compliant contact analysis. Geostatistical and Geospatial Approaches for the Characterization of Natural Resources in the Environment: Challenges,Processes and Strategies, 6-8, New Delhi, Capital Publishing Company.
• Mueller, U., Tolosana-Delgado, R., Van Den Boogaart, KG., (2014), Approaches to the simulation of compositional data - a Nickel-Laterite comparative case study. Orebody Modelling and Strategic Mine Planning Symposium 2014. Proceedings, 61-72, Carlton, Victoria, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.
• Van Den Boogaart, KG., Tolosana-Delgado, R., Lehmann, M., Mueller, U., (2014), On the joint multipoint simulation of discrete and continuous geometallurgical parameters. Orebody Modelling and Strategic Mine Planning Symposium 2014. Proceedings, 379-388, Carlton, Victoria, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.

Research Student Supervision

Principal Supervisor

• Master of Science (Mathematics and Planning),  THE SIMULATION OF MATERIAL TYPES IN A WESTERN AUSTRALIAN IRON DEPOSIT.
• Doctor of Philosophy,  APPROACHES TO THE SPATIAL MODELING OF CANCER INCIDENCE AND MORTALITY IN METROPOLITAN PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA, 1990- 2005
• Doctor of Philosophy,  GEOSTATISTICAL MODELLING OF RECREATIONAL FISHING DATA: A FINE-SCALE SPATIAL ANALYSIS
• Doctor of Philosophy,  SPACE-TIME STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF MALARIA MORBIDITY INCIDENCE CASES IN GHANA: A GEOSTATISTICAL MODELLING APPROACH
• Master of Science (Mathematics and Planning),  COMPOSITIONS, LOGRATIOS AND GEOSTATISTICS: AN APPLICATION TO IRON ORE
• Doctor of Philosophy,  GEOSTATISTICAL SPATIOTEMPORAL MODELLING WITH APPLICATION TO THE SHARK BAY MANAGED PRAWN FISHERY.
• Master of Science (Mathematics and Planning),  GOESTATISTICAL METHODS FOR ESTIMATING IRON, SILICA AND ALUMINA GRADES WITHIN THE HARDCAP OF THE SECTION SEVEN IRON DEPOSIT, TOM PRICE
• Master of Science (Mathematics and Planning),  PLURIGAUSSIAN SIMULATION OF ROCKTYPES USING DATA FROM A GOLD MINE IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA.
• Master of Science (Mathematics and Planning),  RECOVERABLE RESOURCES CALCULATION USING NON-LINEAR METHODS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY
• Doctor of Philosophy,  EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MODEL OF THE TRANSMISSION AND SPREAD OF HEPATITIS B PANDEMIC IN GHANA
• Doctor of Philosophy,  LINEAR TRANSFORMATION METHODS FOR MULTIVARIATE GEOSTATISTICAL SIMULATION
• Doctor of Philosophy,  ON THE SPATIAL MODELLING OF MIXED AND CONSTRAINED GEOSPATIAL DATA

Co-principal Supervisor

• Master of Science (Environmental Management),  ASSESSING VARIABILITY IN STANDARDISED HARVEST RATES FROM SHORE-BASED RECREATIONAL FISHING SURVEYS
• Master of Science (Environmental Management),  THE WESTERN AUSTRALIAN CHARTER INDUSTRY: WORKING TOWARDS LONG TERM SUSTAINABILITY

Associate Supervisor

• Doctor of Philosophy,  TIME SERIES ANALYSIS OF HIV INCIDENCE CASES IN GHANA: TRENDS, PREDICTIONS AND IMPACT OF INTERVENTIONS
• Doctor of Philosophy,  SMALL-SCALE BIOGEOGRAPHIC PATTERNS OF BENTHIC BACTERIAL AND CILIATE COMMUNITIES IN THE SALINE PONDS OF LAKE MACLEOD, NORTH-WESTERN AUSTRALIA