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Acknowledgments
The appearance of this monograph would have been impossible
without the help of the author’s many friends and colleagues. Prof.
Gordon Kaufman, MIT/Sloan School of Management, Cambridge,
Massachusetts (who also kindly provided the Foreword); U.S.
Geological Survey petroleum geologist Dr. Larry Drew, Reston,
Virginia; and at the Kansas Geological Survey, Prof. Dan Merriam
(Syracuse University, New York/University of Wichita, Kansas)
teamed up to start the ball rolling. Thus a nearly legible, almost complete photocopy of Prof. Pei-Jen “P. J.” Lee’s fi nal manuscript eventually arrived on the doorstep of the International Association for
Mathematical Geology monograph editor. SMG no. 8, Statistical
Methods for Estimating Petroleum Resources, was about to be born—in
the fullness of time.
Prof. John Davis, University of Kansas/Montanuniversität Leoben,
Austria, obliged the monograph midwife by scanning the original text,
cleaning up illustrations, and patiently answering many questions. He
also corresponded with Prof. Lee’s colleagues at the Geological Survey
of Canada; National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan; and throughout
the United States.
Dr. Kirk Osadetz, P. J.’s close friend and coworker at the Geological
Survey of Canada in Calgary, prepared the Preface for the monograph.
Drawn as it was, in part, from P. J.’s original draft, he modestly omitted his own name from the list of those Prof. Lee wished especially
to thank; it is hereby reinstated. Dr. Richard Procter of Calgary, a
personal friend and colleague of P. J., served as liaison between the
Lee family and the SMG editor and publisher. Dr. Zhouheng Chen,
Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, was able to supply fair copies of
several illegible manuscript pages. Correspondence with colleagues in
Taiwan resulted in recovery of a missing table, provided by P. J.’s doctoral student, Prof. Yuan-Chen Cheng.
All of us who worked to convey P. J. Lee’s fi nal manuscript to graduate students and members of the petroleum industry and geoscience
community owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. Geoff Bohling of the Kansas
Geological Survey, University of Kansas. It was his task to renovate
Acknowledgments
The appearance of this monograph would have been impossible
without the help of the author’s many friends and colleagues. Prof.
Gordon Kaufman, MIT/Sloan School of Management, Cambridge,
Massachusetts (who also kindly provided the Foreword); U.S.
Geological Survey petroleum geologist Dr. Larry Drew, Reston,
Virginia; and at the Kansas Geological Survey, Prof. Dan Merriam
(Syracuse University, New York/University of Wichita, Kansas)
teamed up to start the ball rolling. Thus a nearly legible, almost complete photocopy of Prof. Pei-Jen “P. J.” Lee’s fi nal manuscript eventually arrived on the doorstep of the International Association for
Mathematical Geology monograph editor. SMG no. 8, Statistical
Methods for Estimating Petroleum Resources, was about to be born—in
the fullness of time.
Prof. John Davis, University of Kansas/Montanuniversität Leoben,
Austria, obliged the monograph midwife by scanning the original text,
cleaning up illustrations, and patiently answering many questions. He
also corresponded with Prof. Lee’s colleagues at the Geological Survey
of Canada; National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan; and throughout
the United States.
Dr. Kirk Osadetz, P. J.’s close friend and coworker at the Geological
Survey of Canada in Calgary, prepared the Preface for the monograph.
Drawn as it was, in part, from P. J.’s original draft, he modestly omitted his own name from the list of those Prof. Lee wished especially
to thank; it is hereby reinstated. Dr. Richard Procter of Calgary, a
personal friend and colleague of P. J., served as liaison between the
Lee family and the SMG editor and publisher. Dr. Zhouheng Chen,
Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, was able to supply fair copies of
several illegible manuscript pages. Correspondence with colleagues in
Taiwan resulted in recovery of a missing table, provided by P. J.’s doctoral student, Prof. Yuan-Chen Cheng.
All of us who worked to convey P. J. Lee’s fi nal manuscript to graduate students and members of the petroleum industry and geoscience
community owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. Geoff Bohling of the Kansas
Geological Survey, University of Kansas. It was his task to renovate