Person

Cressie, Noel (1950 - )

FAA

Born
1950
Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia
Occupation
Statistician

Summary

Noel Cressie is a world leader in statistical methodology for analysing spatial and spatio-temporal data, and its applications to environmental science. His fundamental contributions changed the basic paradigm for analysing observations in space. His research includes contributions in pollution monitoring, climate prediction, ocean health, soil chemistry, and glacier movement. In 2012 Cressie was appointed Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Director of the, Centre for Environmental Informatics at the University of Wollongong.

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Chronology

1972
Award - Fulbright Scholarship
1972
Education - BSc, University of Western Australia
1973
Education - MA, Princeton University, New Jersey, U.S.A.
1975
Education - PhD, Princeton University, New Jersey, U.S.A.
1976 - 1980
Career position - Lecturer, Flinders University
1978 - 1979
Career position - Vice-President, South Australian Branch, Statistical Society of Australia
1979 - 1980
Career position - President, South Australian Branch, Statistical Society of Australia
1980 - 1983
Career position - Senior Lecturer, Flinders University
1983 - 1988
Career position - Professor of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, U.S.A.
1984 -
Career position - Member, International Statistical Institute
1984 - 1988
Career position - Associate Editor, Theory and Methods, Journal of the American Statistical Association
1986 -
Career position - Fellow, American Statistical Association
1988 -
Career position - Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics
1993
Award - Distinguished Achievement Award, Section of Statistics and the Environment, American Statistical Association
1993 - 1998
Career position - Distinguished Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, U.S.A.
1995 - 2001
Career position - Member, Advisory Committee, National Science Foundation Geophysical Statistics Project at National Centre for Atmospheric Research
1998
Career position - Chair, Section on Statistics and the Environment, American Statistical Association
1998 - 2012
Career position - Professor of Statistics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A.
1999 - 2012
Career position - Director, Program in Spatial Statistics and Environmental Statistics, Sept of Statistics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A.
2000 - 2005
Career position - Member, Editorial Board, Statistical inference for stochastic processes
2000 - 2010
Career position - Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Envirometrics
2001
Career position - Chair, Advisory Committee, National Science Foundation Geophysical Statistics Project at National Centre for Atmospheric Research
2003 - 2009
Career position - Member, Exposure and Human Health Committee, US EPA Science Advisory Board
2004 - 2012
Career position - Distinguished Professor of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A.
2007
Career position - CMIS Visiting Senior Research Fellow, CSIRO
2007 - 2016
Career position - Member, Editorial Board, Mathematical geosciences
2008 -
Career position - Fellow, Spatial Econometrics Association
2008 -
Career position - Associate Editor, Journal of environmental statistics
2009
Award - R. A. Fisher Lectureship, Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies
2010 -
Career position - Associate Editor, Envirometrics
2011 -
Career position - Science Team Member, NASA OCO-2 Mission
2011
Award - PROSE Award in Mathematics (with Christopher Wikle), Association of American Publishers
2011 - 2017
Career position - Member, Census Scientific Advisory Committee, US Census Bureau
2012 -
Career position - Distinguished Professor, School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong
2012 -
Career position - Director, Centre for Environmental Informatics, National Institute for Applied Research Australia (NIASRA), University of Wollongong
2013 - 2017
Career position - Distinguished Visiting Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, U.S.A.
2014
Award - Pitman Medal, Statistical Society of Australia
2014 - 2019
Career position - Adjunct Fellow, Data61, CSIRO
2016
Award - Barnett Award, Royal Statistical Society
2016 - 2018
Career position - Member, Scientific Program Committee, Australian Statistical Conference 2018, Melbourne
2017
Award - Georges Matheron Award and Lectureship, International Association for Mathematical Geosciences Meeting, Fremantle
2018 -
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
2018
Award - Moyal Medal and Lecture, Macquarie University
2020 -
Award - Fellow, Fellow, Royal Society of New South Wales

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