Recognising Outstanding Contributors to the Journal Mathematical Geosciences : Professor Margaret A. Oliver
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Recognising Outstanding Contributors to the Journal Mathematical Geosciences: Professor Margaret A. Oliver
Published online: 19 April 2012 © International Association for Mathematical Geosciences 2012
After several years of distinguished and productive service, our Editorial Board member Professor Margaret A. Oliver has retired. It is an honour to acknowledge Margaret’s contributions over the years to the journal, from Guest Editor of our special issue on the Applications of Wavelets in the Geosciences in 2009 (Oliver 2009) to her exemplary contributions throughout her involvement since 1998. Similarly, one can only express admiration for her contributions to the profession, from being dedicated to her students, to publishing over 100 academic papers, contributing to books, and co-authoring the established textbook Geostatistics for Environmental Scientists the second updated edition of which was published in 2007 (Webster and Oliver 2007), as well as more recently co-authoring Geostatistical Applications for Precision Agriculture (Oliver 2010). Margaret is also in the process of co-authoring a second book on precision agriculture. Margaret has been a leading academic in the field, with her early research focusing on the multivariate and geostatistical analysis of soil data from the Wyre Forest in the Midlands of England. One of her first papers was published in Mathematical Geology in 1989 (Oliver and Webster 1989). Since then her research interests have included the application of a wide range of numerical methods to soil and other data including pollen counts, forestry, radon emission, remotely sensed imagery and the incidence of childhood cancer. Her specific interests are in sample design for spatial analysis and eventual mapping, risk analysis associated with prescribed thresholds in relation to soil pollutants or deficiencies of soil nutrients, and the relations between different scales of spatial variation. Her most recent research has been in the field of precision agriculture. The Mathematical Geosciences community is fortunate to have benefited from Margaret’s research and achievements. Margaret retired at the end of September 2004 from her post as Reader in Spatial Analysis at the University of Reading. She has retained a link and a base at the University as a Visiting Professor since January 2005 until the present. She was CoEditor-in-Chief of Precision Agriculture from 2005 to 2010. In 2011 she became Deputy Editor of the European Journal of Soil Science after serving as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Soil Science (1990–1993) and of the European Journal of Soil Science (1993–1997).
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On behalf of the journal Mathematical Geosciences, I would like to offer our sincere thanks and best wishes as Margaret steps down from her editorial duties; we know that her involvement and contribution to the profession will not just stop here. THANK YOU Margaret!
This photograph of Margaret Oliver was taken in Prague in 2011 and serves as a reminder to Margaret of attending h
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