Professor Marc Moore retired from the École Polytechnique in Montréal in 2003. Marc has an impressive record of service to the Canadian statistical community. He was Program Chair for two annual meetings of the SSC, Québec (1987) and Wolfville (1993), President for the NSERC Statistical Sciences Selection Committee twice (1984, 1999). He has been the editor for the Canadian Journal of Statistics (1989-1991), President of the SSC (1995), and a member of several SSC committees. Marc has always been an active researcher in spatial statistics with more than 25 papers, and a good mentor for graduate students, supervising 5 Ph.D. and 10 M.Sc. students.
“To Marc Moore, for his important contribution to the development of Statistics in Canada and in Québec, in particular for his work as Editor of the Canadian Journal of Statistics, for the numerous posts, including the presidency, that he has held in the SSC, for his work on grant selection committees for NSERC and FCAR, for his original contributions to spatial statistics, for his involvement in the teaching of mathematics and statistics in Québec and for the excellence of his teaching.”