This award is given every other year by the Statistical Society of Canada to commemorate the late Dr Lise Manchester’s abiding interest in using statistical methods to study matters of relevance to society. The award recognizes excellence in statistical research that helps guide public policy in Canada.

The award highlights more specifically the creative nature and impact on Canadian public policy of their recent paper published in the Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics (vol. 27, 2022). In this article, Jonathan, Christian, and Luc describe a hierarchical Bayesian strategy for spatial modeling of extreme precipitation anywhere in Canada which takes into account some orographic variables and a reconstruction of historical meteorology from the Canadian Regional Climate Model (CRCM).

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