Between 1976 and 1983 he was Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at The Flinders University of South Australia. From 1983 to 1998 he was Professor of Statistics, and from 1993 to 1998, Distinguished Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University. He is now Professor of Statistics and Director of the Program in Spatial Statistics and Environmental Sciences at The Ohio State University.

He is the author of around 200 articles in refereed journals and book chapters, and of two books, the most recent being, "Statistics for Spatial Data, rev. edn", published by John Wiley and Sons in 1993. His research interests are in the statistical modeling and analysis of spatio-temporal data, including remote sensing and climate prediction.

Dr. Cressie is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and The Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and he is an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute.

See also Cressie's web-page.

Mark Irwin was born in San Jose, California and grew up in Vancouver, Canada. He received a BSc in Mathematics in 1986 and an MSc in Statistics in 1989 from the University of British Columbia. In 1995, he received a PhD in Statistics from the University of Chicago under the advising of Dr. Augustine Kong.

In September 2003, he joined the Statistics Department at Harvard University. Previously, he joined the Department of Statistics at The Ohio State University in 1993, initially as an Instructor and then becoming an Assistant Professor in 1995. In 2000, he became the Department's Statistical Computing Scientist. In addition, he is a member of the Center for Biostatistics at OSU.

His research interests include fast Bayesian approaches to Command and Control (C2), space-time hierarchical modeling, statistical genetics focusing on problems in gene mapping, statistical computing, Monte Carlo methods, and biostatistics.

See also Irwin's web-page.

Martina Pavlicova received an MS degree in Econometrics from The Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, in 1995, and an MS in Statistics from The Ohio State University in 1999. She is currently in the PhD program in the Department of Statistics at The Ohio State University.

See also Pavlicova's web-page.