ESSIC research assistant professor Melissa Kenney is a co-author of a paper recognized by the decision analysis community. The paper titled “Partition Dependence and Carryover Biases in Subjective Probability Assessment Surveys for Continuous Variables: Model-Based Estimation and Correction” was chosen as a runner up for the Decision Analysis Special Recognition Award for papers published in 2016. The paper was also acknowledged as an INFORMS Decision Analysis Society (DAS) Student Paper Award Finalist. Kenney was a PhD advisor to paper’s first author Venkata Prava.
![Satellite seasonal temperature difference maps indicate how the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem and its organisms may respond to the temperature changes. Here, the maps show warmer than average water temperatures from January through March 2020, cooler than average from April through June, near average July through September, and slightly warmer than average October through December. The long-term baseline is from the years 2008-2019.]](https://essic.umd.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/rv-chesapeake2-150x150.jpg)
