The Department of Statistics at Colorado State University will host the 2014 joint Graybill/ENVR Conference on “Modern Statistical Methods for Ecology” in Fort Collins during September 7-10, 2014. The focus of the conference is on new developments in statistical ecology, broadly defined. The conference is jointly sponsored by CSU, for which this is the 12th Graybill Conference, and the American Statistical Association’s section on Statistics for the Environment (ENVR), which has hosted biennial workshops since 2000.