1976 Elected Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics
1979 Elected Member, International Statistical Institute<
1988 Elected Fellow, American Statistical Association>
1987 President, Statistical Society of Canada
1989 Izaak Walton Killam Senior Fellowship
1999 Eugene Lukacs Symposium Distinguished Service Award
2000 Invited Presidential Address Statistical Society of Canada
2000 Gold Medal, Statistical Society of Canada
2000 Distinguished Achievement Medal, Environmental Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association
2001 Izaak Walton Research Prize
2003 Hunter Lecture, International Environmetrics Society
2003 Elected Fellow, Royal Society of Canada
2004: Plenary Lecture, South African Statistical Association
2005: Honorary Membership Statistical Society of Canada
2005: Appointed to Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee for Ozone, US EPA
2007: PIMS Tenth Anniversary Distinguished Lecture, U Washington
2011: Gordon C Ashton Memorial Lecture, U of Guelph
2015: Global Chair in the Institute for Mathematical Innovation
2018: Statistician of the Month: September, Chapman and Hall/CRC Press
2019: The David Rees Distinguished Visiting Fellowship, University of Exeter
2020: Invested as an Officer in the Order of Canada
2021: Inaugural winner of the UBC Emeritus College Award for Excellence
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