Noel Cressie

Noel Andrew Cressie
Born
Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia
EducationUniversity of Western Australia
Princeton University
Scientific career
WorkplacesFlinders University
Iowa State University
Ohio State University
University of Wollongong
ThesisTesting for Uniformity against a Clustering Alternative
Geoffrey Watson
Other academic advisors
John Tukey
Doctoral students
Mathematics Genealogy Project
Websitehttps://www.uow.edu.au/niasra/our-research/centre-for-environmental-informatics/people/dr-noel-cressie/

Noel Andrew Cressie FRSN FAA is an Australian and American statistician.[1][2] He is Distinguished Professor and Director, Centre for Environmental Informatics, at the University of Wollongong in Wollongong (53 miles south of Sydney), Australia.

Education and career

Cressie studied Mathematics at the University of Western Australia. In the USA, he obtained his Ph.D. in Statistics from Princeton University, advised by Geoffrey S. Watson and taught by both Watson and John W. Tukey. He has spent the majority of his professional life in the US as professor and distinguished professor at both Iowa State University and the Ohio State University. Since 2012, Cressie has been professor and distinguished professor at the University of Wollongong, Australia. More details on his career can be found in “A Conversation with Noel Cressie”, where he discusses the evolution of statistical science in spatial and spatio-temporal statistics up to 2019.[3]

Research

Cressie's research lies broadly in data science in the area of environmental informatics, emphasizing uncertainty quantification and using tools from the fields of Statistics, Mathematics, Computing, and Visualization. His main area of application in the 2010s and beyond has been in remote sensing of the environment using spatial and spatio-temporal statistical methodology.

Cressie is best known for having brought disparate statistical methodologies in the early 1990s into a nascent discipline known as Spatial Statistics. In his widely cited book, Statistics for Spatial Data,[4] Cressie established a general spatial model that unified statistics for geostatistical data, regular and irregular lattice data, point patterns, and random sets, building on earlier research of his and many others on statistical theory, methodology, and applications for spatial data. Since the 2000s, this methodology has emphasized hierarchical statistical modeling, which was integrated into two subsequent books, Statistics for Spatio-Temporal Data[5] and Spatio-Temporal Statistics with R[6]. It has been applied in areas of ‘big science,’ such as remote sensing of Earth on a global scale,[7] understanding the global carbon cycle and its effect on climate change,[8] Greenland ice-sheet mass balance,[9] and disease mapping.[10]

Over the course of his statistical career, Cressie has authored or coauthored four books and over 350 articles in scholarly journals and edited volumes.[11] In the area of spatio-temporal statistics, the book Statistics for Spatio-Temporal Data (2011), by Cressie and Christopher K. Wikle, received two awards: the 2011 PROSE Award in the Mathematics category (for PROfessional and Scholarly Excellence, given by the Association of American Publishers), and the 2013 DeGroot Book Prize (awarded every two years by the International Society for Bayesian Analysis). The book, Spatio-Temporal Statistics with R (2019) by Christopher K. Wikle, Andrew Zammit-Mangion, and Cressie received the 2019 Taylor and Francis Award for Outstanding Reference/Monograph in the Science and Medical category.

Honors and awards

Cressie's accomplishments have resulted in a number of awards, including Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA),[12] Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics,[13] Fellow of the Spatial Econometrics Association,[14] and Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute.[15] In 2009, Cressie received one of the highest awards in statistical science, the R.A. Fisher Lectureship, from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS). In 2018, Cressie was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)[16] and, in 2020, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales (FRSN).[17]

He was awarded the Pitman Medal[18] in 2014 by the Statistical Society of Australia in recognition of his outstanding achievement in, and contribution to, the discipline of Statistics. In 2016, he received the Barnett Award from the Royal Statistical Society for excellence in environmental statistics,[19] and in 2017 he received the Georges Matheron Award[20] from the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences. Cressie was awarded the Hannan Medal by the Australian Academy of Science in 2025,[21] and in 2026 he was awarded the Jerome Sacks Award from the National Institute of Statistical Sciences in the USA[22].

Publications

  • Goodness-of-Fit Statistics for Discrete Multivariate Data, by Timothy R. C. Read and Noel A. C. Cressie. Springer, New York, NY, 1988 (211 pp.). (doi: 10.1007/978-1-4612-4578-0)
  • Statistics for Spatial Data, by Noel A. C. Cressie. Wiley, New York, NY, 1991 (900 pp.). Revised edition: Wiley, New York, NY, 1993 (900 pp.). Paperback edition in the Wiley Classics Library: Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2015 (900 pp.). (doi: 10.1002/9781119115151.ch1)
  • Statistics for Spatio-Temporal Data, by Noel Cressie and Christopher K. Wikle. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2011 (588 pp.). (ISBN 978-0-471-69274-4)
  • Spatio-Temporal Statistics with R, by Christopher K. Wikle, Andrew Zammit-Mangion, and Noel Cressie. Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, FL 2019 (380 pp.). (doi: 10.1201/9781351769723)
  • Peer-reviewed, conference-proceedings, and magazine articles by Cressie and co-authors can be found at his Research Webpage, Dr Noel Cressie - University of Wollongong – UOW

References

  1. ↑ Noel Cressie publications indexed by Google Scholar
  2. ↑ UOW Scholars (https://scholars.uow.edu.au/display/noel_cressie)
  3. ↑ Interview of N. Cressie: “A Conversation with Noel Cressie” by Christopher K.Wikle and Jay M. Ver Hoef. Statistical Science 34, 349-359 (2019).
  4. ↑ Statistics for Spatial Data, by Noel Cressie. John Wiley, New York, 1991 (900pp.).
  5. ↑ Statistics for Spatio-Temporal Data, by Noel Cressie and Christopher K. Wikle. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2011 (588 pp.).
  6. ↑ Spatio-Temporal Statistics with R, by Christopher K. Wikle, Andrew Zammit-Mangion, and Noel Cressie. Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, FL 2019 (380 pp.).
  7. ↑ Cressie, N. (2018). Mission CO2ntrol: A statistical scientist’s role in remote sensing of atmospheric carbon dioxide (with discussion). Journal of the American Statistical Association, 113, 152-181.
  8. ↑ Zammit-Mangion, A., Bertolacci, M., Fisher, J., Stavert, A., Rigby, M., Cao, Y., and Cressie, N. (2022). WOMBAT v1.0: a fully Bayesian global flux-inversion framework. Geoscientific Model Development, 15, 45-73 (doi:10.5194/gmd-15-45-2022).
  9. ↑ Box, J.E., Cressie, N., Bromwich, D.H., Jung, J-H., van den Broeke, M., Van Angelen, J.H., Forster, R., Miege, C., Mosley-Thompson, E., Vinther, B., and McConnell, J.R. (2013). Greenland ice sheet mass balance reconstruction. Part I: net snow accumulation (1600-2009). Journal of Climate 25, 3919-3934.
  10. ↑ Mugglin, A. S., Cressie, N., and Gemmell, I. (2002). Hierarchical statistical modelling of influenza-epidemic dynamics in space and time. Statistics in Medicine, 21, 2703-2721.
  11. ↑ Research webpage (https://www.uow.edu.au/niasra/our-research/centre-for-environmental-informatics/people/people/#d.en.138780).
  12. ↑ Fellows of the American Statistical Association (http://www.amstat.org/awards/fellows.cfm Archived 2013-08-31 at the Wayback Machine).
  13. ↑ Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (https://imstat.org/honored-ims-fellows/ Archived 2014-03-02 at the Wayback Machine).
  14. ↑ Fellows of the Spatial Econometrics Association (https://www.spatialeconometricsassociation.org/association/).
  15. ↑ International Statistics Institute (https://www.isi-web.org/index.php/about-isi/who-is-isi/members/indivual Archived 29 July 2017 at the Wayback Machine).
  16. ↑ "Professor Noel Cressie | Australian Academy of Science". www.science.org.au. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
  17. ↑ https://www.royalsoc.org.au/about-us/excellence/list-of-fellows/
  18. ↑ "Awards & grants - Statistical Society of Australia".
  19. ↑ Barnett Lecture at RSS 2016 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYtbSSgcx6A&t=111s).
  20. ↑ Noel Cressie - 2017 Matheron Lecturer iamg.org p.4
  21. ↑ "2025 awardees: 2025 Hannan Medal". Australian Academy of Science. Retrieved 13 July 2025.
  22. ↑ "Congratulations to the 2026 NISS Award Recipients!". National Institute of Statistical Sciences. 2 August 2026. Retrieved 26 August 2026.
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