Distinguished Professor Noel Cressie at the University of Wollongong (UOW), Australia, has been awarded the 2026 Jerome Sacks Award from the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) in the USA. The Sacks Award recognizes sustained, high-quality cross-disciplinary research involving the statistical sciences.

Noel is Director of UOW’s Centre for Environmental Informatics in the National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia (NIASRA) and Distinguished Professor in the School of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He is also an Affiliate at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Missouri in the Department of Statistics and Data Science. His cross-disciplinary research involving the statistical sciences, includes global CO₂ flux, regional climate, sea surface temperature, air pollution, disease mapping, ocean biogeochemical cycles, soil carbon dynamics, glacier movement, and river pollution.