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Pierre Goovaerts

Education
 Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), B.S., Agriculture Engineering with  Highest Honors (summa cum laude), 1987.
 Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), Ph.D., Agricultural Science with  Highest Honors (summa cum laude with congratulations from the Jury), 1992.
 Stanford University, Dept. of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Post-Doctoral  Research Fellow, January 1993 to December 1994.
 Professional Experience:
 Associate Editor, Mathematical Geosciences, October 2009 to present.
 Geostatistician, Computer Sciences Corporation, July 2008 to present. Geostatistical characterization of contaminated sediments, estimation of volumes of sediments to be dredged, design of sampling schemes and remediation strategies.
 Associate Professor (courtesy appointment), Soil and Water Science Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, January 2006 to present.
 President, PGeostat LLC., January 2003 to present.
 Chief Scientist, BioMedware Inc., November 2002 to present.
 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, September 1997 to October 2002.  Teaching of classes in hydrology, statistics and probability, and geostatistics. Consultant for EPA, NRC, BioMedware, ScoreBoard, Terumo, ERIM, CDM, Universities of Nebraska, Cincinnati and Tennessee, Tufts University. Review reports and contribute to development and application of (geo)statistics to environmental sciences, remote sensing, health science, forestry, design of experiment, and agriculture.
 Senior Research Assistant, Dept. of Environmental Sciences and Land Management, Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, September 1993 to September 1997.
 Research Assistant, Dept. of Environmental Sciences and Land Management, Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, April 1989 to April 1993.