Career
Previously, he spent most of his career with the National Oil Company of Chile (ENAP) in Punta Arenas and Santiago, and with the Kansas Geological Survey in Lawrence. He served as Secretary-General (1992−1996) and President (1996–2000) for the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences. He has been active in geostatistics since the early 1970s, with briefer involvements in various other forms of quantitative modeling, including geophysics, well log analysis, reservoir engineering, energy resources assessment, compositional data analysis, lithostratigraphy, classical statistics, enhanced oil recovery, coastal processes, economic analysis, coal mining, geohydrology, marine geology and epidemiology.
Vera Pawlowsky-Glahn, George Christakos.