Ricardo A. Olea Explained

Ricardo Olea
Birth Date:	1 July 1942
Birth Place:	Santiago, Chile
Workplaces:	United States Geological Survey Kansas Geological Survey Empresa Nacional del Petróleo
Alma Mater:	Universidad de Chile University of Kansas
Known For:	Regionalized variable theory
Spouse:	Lucila Amelia Olea
Children:	Claudia, Ricardo, Pablo
Awards:	Krumbein Medal^[1]

Ricardo Antonio Olea (pronounced as /es/) is a Chilean American who was a research mathematical statistician with the United States Geological Survey (2006–21). 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 received the William Christian Krumbein Medal in 2004 from the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences.^[1] He served as Secretary-General (1992−1996) and President (1996–2000) for the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences;^[2] and Secretary General (2019–21) of the Compositional Data Association.^[3]

Research

He has been active in geostatistics since the early 1970s,^[4] with briefer involvements in various other forms of quantitative modeling, including geophysics,^[5] petrophysics,^[6] reservoir engineering,^[7] energy resources assessment,^[8] compositional data analysis,^[9] lithostratigraphy,^[10] statistics,^[11] enhanced oil recovery,^[12] coastal processes,^[13] economic analysis,^[14] coal mining,^[15] geohydrology,^[16] marine geology,^[17] epidemiology^[18] ichnology^[19] and chemometrics.^[20]

Selected books

• Ricardo A. Olea, ed., Geostatistical Glossary and Multilingual Dictionary, Oxford, 1991, 177p.^[21]
• Ricardo A. Olea, Geostatistics for Engineers and Earth Scientists, Kluwer, 1999, 313 p.^[22]
• Vera Pawlowsky-Glahn, Ricardo A. Olea, Geostatistical Analysis of Compositional Data, Oxford, 2004, 181 p.^[23]
• George Christakos, Ricardo A. Olea, Marc L. Serre, Hwa-Lung Yu, Lin-Lin Wang, Interdisciplinary Public Health Reasoning and Epidemic Modelling: The Case of Black Death, Springer, 2005, 319 p.^[24]

Notes and References

1. Ricardo Olea, 2004 William Christian Krumbein Medalist . 2009-06-25 . 10.1007/s11004-009-9226-4 . 41 . 5. Mathematical Geosciences . 605–607. 2009MaGeo..41..605. . 195233589 .
2. http://www.iamg.org/information-about-iamg/iamg-council.html Officers and Members of Executive Committee
3. Web site: Home . coda-association.org.
4. Ricardo A. Olea (1972), Application of Regionalized Variable Theory to Automatic Contouring: Special Report to the American Petroleum Institute, Research Project No. 131, The University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc. in cooperation with the Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, Kansas, 191 p., 2 plates.
5. Oscar Schneider and Ricardo A. Olea (1972), Use of Prima Cord in seismic reflection prospecting (in Spanish): Proceedings of the XXV Reunión de Expertos de ARPEL, Boletín Técnico de Arpel, v. 5, no. 3, Montevideo, Uruguay, p. 217–226.
6. Ricardo A. Olea (1981), LOG II, A General Purpose Automated Well Log Evaluation System: Kansas Geological Survey, Petrophysical Series no. 1, Lawrence, Kansas, 103 p.
7. Ricardo A. Olea, Jaime Pulido and Sergio Azzari (1984), Optimal well spacing: Technical and economic analysis with an application to the offshore Ostión oil field, Magallanes, Chile (in Spanish): Empresa Nacional del Petróleo, Punta Arenas, Chile, 156 p.
8. Ricardo A. Olea, James A. Luppens, (2014), Modeling uncertainty in coal resource assessments, with an application to a central area of the Gillette coal field, Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2014-5196, 46 p.
9. Ricardo A. Olea and James Luppens (2015), Mapping of coal quality using stochastic simulation and isometric logratio transformation with an application to a Texas lignite: International Journal of Coal Geology, v. 152, p. 80–93.
10. Ricardo A. Olea and Robert J. Sampson (2003), CORRELATOR, an interactive computer program for high-resolution, lithostratigraphic, well-log correlation.
11. Olea . Ricardo A. . 2011 . On the use of the beta distribution in probabilistic resource assessments . Natural Resources Research . 20 . 4. 377–388 . 10.1007/s11053-011-9153-1. 123413870 .
12. Ricardo A. Olea (2015), CO2 retention values in enhanced oil recovery: Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, v. 129, p. 23–28.
13. Olea . Ricardo A. . Coleman Jr . James L . 2014 . A synoptic examination of causes of land loss in southern Louisiana as they relate to the exploitation of subsurface geologic resources . Journal of Coastal Research . 30 . 5. 1025–1044 . land consumption . 10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-13-00046.1 . 91178412 .
14. Ramón Concha, Eduardo González and Ricardo A. Olea (1977), Simulation model for economic evaluation of prospecting plays in Magallanes, Chile (in Spanish): Proceedings of the XXVII Reunión de Expertos de ARPEL, Boletín Técnico de Arpel, v. 6, no. 3, Montevideo, Uruguay, p. 227–257.
15. C. Ö. Karacan, Ricardo A. Olea (2013), Sequential Gaussian co-simulation of rate decline parameters of longwall gob gas ventholes: International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, v. 59, p. 1−14.
16. Ricardo A. Olea (1982), Optimization of the High Plains Aquifer Observation Network, Kansas: Kansas Geological Survey, Groundwater Series no. 7, Lawrence, Kansas, 103 p.
17. Jan Harff, Rudolf Endler, Emel Emelyanov, Sergey Kotov, Thomas Leipe, Matthias Moros, Ricardo Olea, Michal Tomczak and Andrzej Witkowski (2011), Late Quaternary climate variations reflected in Baltic Sea sediments: In Jan Harff, Svante Björck and Peer Hoth, editors, The Baltic Sea Basin, Springer, Heidelberg, p. 99–132.
18. Olea . Ricardo A. . Christakos . George . 2005 . Duration assessment of urban mortality for the 14th century Black Death epidemic . Human Biology . 77 . 3. 291–303 . 10.1353/hub.2005.0051. 16392633 . 5993227 .
19. Buatois . Luis A. . Mángano . M. Gabriela . Olea . Ricardo A. . Wilson . Mark A. . 2016 . Decoupled evolution of soft and hard substrate communities during Cambrian Explosion and Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 113 . 25. 6945–6948 . 10.1073/pnas.1523087113. 27247396 . 4922141 . 2016PNAS..113.6945B . free .
20. Olea . Ricardo A. . Martín-Fernández . Josep A. . Craddock . William H. . 2021 . Multivariate classification of the crude oil petroleum systems in southeast Texas, USA, using conventional and compositional analysis of biomarkers . In Advances in Compositional Data Analysis—Festschrift in honor of Vera-Pawlowsky-Glahn, Filzmoser, P., Hron, K., Palarea-Albaladejo, J., Martín-Fernández, J.A., editors. Springer . 303−327.
21. Book: Geostatistical Glossary and Multilingual Dictionary . Ricardo A. . Olea . Oxford University Press . 1991-03-07 . International Association for Mathematical Geology Studies in Mathematical Geology . 2016-01-06 . 9780195066890.
22. Book: Olea, Ricardo A. . Geostatistics for Engineers and Earth Scientists . Springer . 1999 . 2016-01-06 . 978-1-4615-5001-3.
23. Book: Geostatistical Analysis of Compositional Data . Oxford University Press . Pawlowsky-Glahn . Vera . Olea . Ricardo A . 2004-06-03 . International Association for Mathematical Geology Studies in Mathematical Geology . 2016-01-06. 9780195171662 .
24. Book: Interdisciplinary Public Health Reasoning and Epidemic . George . Christakos . R.A. . Olea . M.L. . Serre . H.-L. . Yu . L.-L. . Wang . Springer . 2005 . 2016-01-06. 9783540257943 .