Nicolas Bez Geostatistics science nicolas.bez@mpl.ird.fr

Nicolas Bez is a senior geostatistics scientist who has just joined IRD's OSIRIS team (September 2004). Since 1993 Nicolas Bez has worked on fisheries the Geostatistics Centre where wrote his thesis on geostatistics applied to survey data (1996). He has participated in several European research projects and has coordinated the CATEFA European project on the combination echo-location and experimental trawling data which was completed in October 2004. He has supervised three PhDs and is a regular contributor to the annual ICES conference. Since 1995, he has been a member the board of the Association Française d’Halieumétrie.