Dr Isobel Clark FSAIMM FIMMM CEng

Curriculum Vitae

Short Courses and Seminars

Most recently, I have been involved in online education through www.edumine.com based in Vancouver, Canada. Two courses cover the contents of Practical Geostatistics 2000:

Classical Statistics: Click here for statistics, lognormals, trend surfaces and much more

Spatial statistics: click here for inverse distance, semi-variograms, kriging and variations

In association with the online courses, we run three day courses at introductory and advanced levels. Practical Geostatistics and/or BYO courses have been run in Vancouver (February and October 2009, May 2010 and 2011, February 2013) and in Toronto in September 2013 and November 2014.

I also do one-on-one training courses from the offices of Geostokos (Ecosse) Ltd in Scotland. Participants on this programme have come from as far as Alabama USA and Johannesburg South Africa.

Zero to Kriging in 30 hours BYO Geostatistical Estimation

Short courses ranging from one to five days in duration have been given worldwide over forty years. These courses are variously hosted by academic institutions, by host consultancy companies or held in-house for particular companies. In the last 40+ years, courses have been held at:

University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa:
{1}Statistical Reserve Valuation, Geostatistical Reserve Valuation and Practical Reserve Valuation --- run at least once a year 1990--1998;
(2) Zero to Kriging in 30 hours and Practical Reserve Valuation --- run at least once a year 1992--1998.

Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada/Reno:
Main introductory geostatistics course and 3-day computer based course on applications --- January 1991, October 1992, January 1994, March 2002, October 2011.

Technical University> of Kosice, Czecho-slovakia; October 1990, 3-day introductory course, computer based.

1991
Lynx Geosystems, Vancouver, Canada; January 1991, 5-day (morning only), in-house.
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; "Practical geostatistics and new directions", June 1991, 5-day introductory course, computer based.
Cluff Minerals Zimbabwe, Harare; September 1991, 2-day seminar (in-house).

1992
Chevron Corporation, Denver, Colorado, January 1992, 5-day introductory course (in-house).
Soekor, Cape Town, RSA; February 1992, 5-day introductory course (in-house).
Rohm and Haas Corporation, Philadelphia PA, November 1992, 5-day introductory course (in-house).
Chevron Mineral Corp of Ireland, Dublin, December 1992, 5-day introductory course (in-house).

1995
Open course, Perth Western Australia (hosted by Micromine), January 1995, Zero to Kriging in 30 hours.
Pancontinental Mining, Kalgoorlie Western Australia, February 1995, 5-day introductory course (in-house).
Lonrho Zimbabwe, Harare; October 1995, 5-day introductory course (in-house),

Stillwater Platinum Mine, Montana, USA, January 1996, 5-day introductory course (in-house).

1997
Lonrho Zimbabwe, Harare; February 1997, 5-day introductory course (in-house).
JCI Geological Services, Johannesburg; Johannesburg, February 1997.
Digital Mining Services (Surpac), Johannesburg, March 1997, 5-day introductory course (Unix workstation based) and September 1998, 3 day course (PC based).
Orapa and Letlakhane Mines, Botswana, November 1997, 5-day introductory course (in-house).

2000
Gold Fields of South Africa, in-house training courses, November 1999; August 2000.

2001
International Groundwater Modelling Centre, Golden, Colorado, June 2001.

2002
Otterbein College, Columbus, Ohio, June 2002.

2003
Geological Society of Nevada, Ely 2003

2004
Auburn University, Alabama, May 2004
Queens University Belfast, June 2004
Newmont Mining, Carlin, Nevada 2004

2005
University of Florida, Gainesville, December 2005
Mott MacDonald, Croydon, England 2005 and 2007

2006
JRC ISPRA, Milan 2006

2007
Wardell Armstrong, Cornwall, England, 2007
Hindustan Zinc, Udaipur, India August 2007

2008
RPS Consultants, St Ives, Cambs, England, 2008
CSA Global, Horsham, England 2008

2010
Newmont Mining, Elko, NV USA, March, 2010
Marigold Mine, NV USA, March, 2010
Gemcom, Vancouver office, May , 2010
Freeport-McMoRan Exploration Corp, Manila, Phillipines, June, 2010
Nigerian Geological Survey Agency, September, 2010

2011
Xstract Group, Brisbane, August, 2011
Barrick, Elko, NV, March, 2011
Aurum, Ireland, October, 2011
Mackay School of Mines, Reno NV, November, 2011
Roscoe Postle Associates, Canada, December, 2011

2012
Cliffs Mining, Duluth MN, June, 2012
Xstract Group, Brisbane, in-house training, August, 2012

2013
Xstract Group, Perth, May, 2013
Aranz Geo (Leapfrog), Christchurch, New Zealand, August, 2013
AusIMM New Zealand Annual Conference, August, 2013
Aminergy (Pty) Ltd, Johannesburg RSA, March, 2014
Neoedge, Accra, Ghana, March 2013 and April, 2014

2014
Western Platinum, MooiNooi, RSA, April, 2014
Ma'aden Gold and Base MetalsOctober 2012, March 2013 and August, 2014
Spectacular Training and Conferences, Johannesburg RSA, March and September, 2014

2015
Practical Geostatistics, Spectacular T&C, February 2015
in-house Practical Geostatistics, Freda Rebecca Mine, Zimbabwe, Ferford South Africa, April 2015 Practical Geostatistics, Edumine, Vancouver, May 2015

The courses at Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada-Reno were generally held during appointment as 'adjunct professor'. Other visiting professorships include the Geology Dept, Syracuse University, New York (1976) and the Technical University of Copenhagen (1979).

Academic visits (including short seminars) have been paid to: Technical University of Ko�ice (October 1991); Technical University of Wroclaw Poland (October 1991); Iowa State University, Ames (February 1992) and Kalgoorlie School of Mines, WA (January 1994). I had the privilege to chair the opening session of the 2-day SAIMM School on Valuation (June 1991) and to give a talk to the Operations Research Society of South Africa.

Invited talks and short seminars have been given at: College of St Mary and St John, Plymouth; Imperial College, London; North London Polytechnic; South Bank Polytechnic; UNISA; and at the Universities of Edinburgh, Reading, Southampton and Swansea.

In August of 1994, a two-day pre-conference seminar on "Spatial Statistics" was presented jointly with Dr Noel A.C. Cressie, Distinguished Professor of Statistics at the University of Iowa at Ames. There were 71 participants, all possessing at least a Master's level degree in Statistics. The seminar was sponsored by the American Statistical Association, prior to the Joint Statistical Meeting in Toronto, Canada.

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