About the Author

William H. Asquith, Ph.D., Ph.D., P.G., is both a Research Hydrologist for the U.S. Geological Survey in Lubbock, Texas and an Adjunct Scientist at Texas Tech University. He has earned separate doctorates in Geosciences and Civil Engineering from University of Texas at Austin and Texas Tech University in Lubbock, respectively. He is a registered Professional Geoscientist in Texas and periodically teaches undergraduate and graduate courses. He has more than 20 years of experience in computational and statistical analysis of surface-water resources and various meteorologic phenomena. He has authored or co-authored over 60 publications and various software libraries in the R environment for statistical computing. His interest in L-moments dates from 1995, and the first sketches of the outline of this monograph are dated February 1997. His dissertation in Civil Engineering was parlayed into this monograph. He has considerable interest in a range of statistical topics, R, Perl, MacOSX, the open-source software movement, computational statistics and data mining, scientific illustration, LaTeX, and professional typesetting. Professionally, he also enjoys operating data-acquisition systems, light fabrication, and engineering and geologic field work. In his spare time, he enjoys family, vegetable gardening, cycling, and triathlon.