Lisa M. Bramer received the B.S. degree in mathematics and statistics and the B.A. degree in psychology from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, in 2007, and the M.S. degree in statistics from Iowa State University, Ames, in 2009, where she is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in statistics. Her research interests include time series, spatial statistics, bayesian hierarchical models, and environmental statistics. Ms. Bramer is a student member of the American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and American Geophysical Union.