Brennan Bean
Mathematics and Statistics
Associate Professor

Contact Information
Office Location: Animal Science (ANSC) 202Phone: 435-797-4130
Email: brennan.bean@usu.edu
Educational Background
Biography
Brennan is an applied statistician whose research impacts include updating American building codes and standards related to extreme snow accumulations. He is currently involved in a national effort to incorporate the effects of climate change into the American building code.
Teaching Interests
A range of applied courses at all academic levels, including computational statistics, data wrangling, applied regression, and introductory data science.
Research Interests
Development of methods, algorithms, and workflows to solve real-world data problems, particularly problems involving spatial and environmental data. Application areas of interest include civil engineering, climate science, and natural resources.
Awards
Researcher of the Year, 2024
USU Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Teacher of the Year, 2023
USU Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Master Teacher Certificate, 2023
USU Empowering Teaching Excellence
Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year, 2022
USU Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Teaching Scholar Certificate, 2021
USU Empowering Teaching Excellence
Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year, 2020
USU Department of Mathematics and Statistics
- Bean, B., (2025). Reliability Basis for Snow Design Loads: Structural Reliability Guidance in ASCE 7-22. American Society of Civil Engineers
Publications | Book Chapters
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Journal Articles
Academic Journal
- Wheeler, J., Lindstrom, C., Bean, B., Jenkins, S., Christensen, R., Moon, K., (2025). Inferring Inertial Navigation Errors from SAR Image Distortions using a Convolutional Neural Network. NAVIGATION: Journal of the Institute of Navigation, 72:4, doi: 10.33012/navi.727
- Campbell, T., Bean, B., (2025). Factors influencing young children's mathematical wellbeing in the United States. Social Indicators Research
- Ratterman, C., Zhang, W., Affram, G., Bean, B., (2025). Improving CFSv2 Snow Water Equivalent Forecasts in the Colorado River Basin with Generalized Analog Regression Downscaling. Weather and Forecasting, 40:11, 2381-2389. doi: 10.1175/waf-d-23-0196.1
- Bean, B., (2025). Exploring variations in design methods for service design of insulated concrete wall panels. Engineering Structures, 340, 120719. doi: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2025.120719
- Ratterman, C., Zhang, W., Affram, G., Bean, B., (2025). Improving CFSv2 Snow Water Equivalent Forecasts with Statistical Downscaling. Weather and Forecasting, doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-23-0196.1
- Bean, B., (2025). Beyond Development: Challenges in Deploying Machine-Learning Models for Structural Engineering Applications. Journal of Structural Engineering, 151:6, doi: 10.1061/jsendh.steng-13301
- Bean, B., (2025). Factors Influencing Young Children’s Mathematical Wellbeing in the United States. Social Indicators Research, 178:1, 255-278. doi: 10.1007/s11205-025-03581-2
- Duah, K., Sun, Y., Bean, B., (2025). Integrating multi-source geospatial information using Bayesian maximum entropy: A case study on design ground snow load prediction. Spatial Statistics, 67, 100894. doi: 10.1016/j.spasta.2025.100894
- Sun, Y., Rios, Z., Bean, B., (2024). Multi-sample means comparisons for imprecise interval data. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 176, 109322. doi: 10.1016/j.ijar.2024.109322
- Watts, E., Bean, B., (2024). Quantifying the impact of rain-on-snow induced flooding in the Western United States. , 16:19, 2826.
- Marsh, M.A, Bean, B., Maleky, F., Martini, S., (2024). Unveiling the physical properties predictive of oil binding capacity in an interesterified palm‐based fat. Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society, 101:8, 767-782. doi: 10.1002/aocs.12830
- Pomeyie, K., Bean, B., (2024). Bootstrap methods for bias correcting probability distribution parameters characterizing extreme snow accumulations. Glacies, 1:1, 35-56. doi: 10.3390/glacies1010004
- Haycock, S., Bean, B., Burchfield, E., (2024). Producing fast and convenient machine learning benchmarks in R with the stressor package. Journal of Data Science, 22:2, 239-258.
- Bean, B., (2024). Creating an asset management plan for traffic signal structures through interactive explorations of wind induced fatigue damage. Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, 20:1, 69-82. doi: 10.1080/15732479.2022.2077768
- Bean, B., (2023). Teaching reproducibility to first year college students: Reflections from an introductory data science course. Journal on Empowering Teaching Excellence, 7:2
- Bean, B., (2023). Comparing Extreme Value Estimation Techniques for Short-Term Snow Accumulations. Journal of Data Science, 368-390. doi: 10.6339/23-jds1086
- Wagstaff, J., Bean, B., Wheeler, J., Maguire, M., Al-Rubaye, S., Sun, Y., (2023). Adaptive mapping of design ground snow loads in the conterminous United States. Journal of Structural Engineering, 150:1, doi: 10.1061/jsendh.steng-12396
- Lundell, J.F, Bean, B., Symanzik, J., (2023). Let’s talk about the weather: a cluster-based approach to weather forecast accuracy. Computational Statistics, 38:3, 1135-1155. doi: 10.1007/s00180-023-01339-3
- Taylor, R., Bean, B., Maguire, M., Al-Rubaye, S., Al-Bayati, M., (2023). Simplified models for composite elastic behavior of precast insulated wall panels. PCI Journal, 68:4
- Carrell, J.D, Phinney, A.I, Mueller, K., Bean, B., (2023). Multiscale ecological niche modeling exhibits varying climate change impacts on habitat suitability of Madrean Pine-Oak trees. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 11, doi: 10.3389/fevo.2023.1086062
- Wagstaff, J., Bean, B., (2023). remap: Regionalized models with spatially smooth predictions. The R Journal, 14:4, 160-178. doi: 10.32614/rj-2023-004
- Phillips, B.N, Bean, B., (2022). Relations among gratitude, adaptation to disability, and flourishing among adults with disabilities: A longitudinal mediation model.. Rehabilitation Psychology, 67:4, 546-555. doi: 10.1037/rep0000448
- Al-Rubaye, S., Maguire, M., Bean, B., (2022). Design ground snow loads: Historical perspective and state of the art. Journal of Structural Engineering, 148:6, doi: 10.1061/(asce)st.1943-541x.0003339
- Spangler, K., Schumacher, B., Bean, B., Burchfield, E., (2022). Path dependencies in US agriculture: Regional factors of diversification. Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Environment, 333:1, 107957. doi: 10.1016/j.agee.2022.107957
- Bean, B., Sun, Y., Maguire, M., (2022). Interval-valued Kriging models for geostatistical mapping with imprecise inputs. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 140, 31-51. doi: 10.1016/j.ijar.2021.10.003
- Wheeler, J., Bean, B., Maguire, M., (2021). Creating a universal depth-to-load conversion technique for the conterminous United States using random forests. Journal of Cold Regions Engineering, 36:1
- Bean, B., (2020). On Tanzania’s Precipitation Climatology, Variability, and Future Projection. Climate, 8:2, 34. doi: 10.3390/cli8020034
- Bean, B., Maguire, M., Sun, Y., (2019). Comparing design ground snow load prediction in Utah and Idaho. Journal of Cold Regions Engineering, 33:3, doi: 10.1061/(asce)cr.1943-5495.0000190
- Bean, B., Sun, Y., (2017). Predicting Utah ground snow loads with PRISM. Journal of Structural Engineering, 143:9, doi: 10.1061/(asce)st.1943-541x.0001870
Public or Trade Journal
- Maguire, M., Bean, B., Harris, J.R, Liel, A., Russell, S., (2022). Ground Snow Loads for ASCE 7-22 - What has Changed and Why?. STRUCTURE Magazine *
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Technical Reports
Other Reports
- Bean, B., (2025). Site Specific Reliability-Targeted Snow Loads and Winter Wind Parameters Across the World. *
- Bean, B., Shaw, B., Jarman, S., Moon, K.R, Zhang, W., (2024). Exploring Bear Lake's future through AI. Utah State University Institute for Land, Water, and Air *
- Shaw, B., Burger, H., Bean, B., Moon, K.R, (2024). Structure identification for high-dimensional data in the vicinity of the Bear Lake. Utah State University Digital Commons *
- Shaw, B., Jarman, S., Bean, B., Moon, K.R, Zhang, W., (2024). Interactive modeling of Bear Lake elevations in a future climate. Utah State University Institute for Land, Water, and Air *
- Bean, B., Sun, Y., Kwag, J., Al-Rubaye, S., Wheeler, J., Jarman, S., Rogers, M., (2021). The 2020 National Snow Load Study. Utah State University Digital Commons *
- Bean, B., (2018). The Utah snow load study. Utah State University *
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Other
Magazine/Trade Publications
Other
- Haycock, S., Bean, B., (2024). stressor: Algorithms for Testing Models under Stress: CRAN: Contributed Packages. The R Foundation
- Wagstaff, J., Bean, B., (2021). remap: Regional Spatial Modeling with Continuous Borders: CRAN: Contributed Packages. The R Foundation
- Bean, B., (2019). Interval-Valued Kriging Models with Applications in Design Ground Snow Load Prediction. *
- Bean, B., (2019). intkrige: A Numerical Implementation of Interval-Valued Kriging: CRAN: Contributed Packages. The R Foundation
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.