Dr. Goovaerts is a gifted speaker who has been invited numerous times to give seminars and key-note addresses on all continents (see Resume for full list). He received the 2013 Distinguished Lecturer Award from the International Association of Mathematical Geosciences. His key-note addresses include:
- Geostatistics in Soil Science: State-of-the-Art and Perspectives, Pedometrics '97, Madison (WI), August 97.
- Combining Minimum Error Variance and Spatial Variability in the Modeling of Petrophysical Properties, 5th Annual Conference of the International Association for Mathematical Geology, Trondheim, Norway, August 99.
- Geostatistical Modeling of Uncertainty in Soil Science, Pedometrics '99, Sydney, Australia, September 99.
- Modeling Uncertainty about Pollutant Concentration and Human Exposure using Geostatistics and a Space-time Information System: Application to Arsenic in Groundwater of Southeast Michigan, Spatial Accuracy Sixth International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural resources and Environmental Sciences, Portland, Maine, June 2004.
- Geostatistical Analysis of Health Data: State-of-the-art and Perspectives, Sixth European Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Applications (GeoENV 2006), Rhodes, Greece, October 2006.
- Combining Areal & Point Data in Geostatistical Interpolation: Applications to Soil Science & Medical Geography, 15th Annual Conference of the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences, Stanford University, California, August 2009.
- Spatial Uncertainty and Hypothesis Testing in Medical Geography: A Geostatistical Perspective, 9th International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, Leicester, UK, July 2010.
- The Role of Geostatistics in Medical Geology, VIII Iberian Geochemistry Conference / XVIII Geochemical Week, Castelo Branco, Portugal, September 2011.
- Regard sur une approche localisée par un spécialiste international du traitement de données spatialisées en santé environnement, keynote address at Colloque Environment Santé, Amiens, France, September 2011. (link to http://webtv.picardie.fr/video2208)
- The Role of Geostatistics in Environmental Epidemiology 9th International Symposium on Environmental Geochemistry, Aveiro, Portugal, July 2012.
- Geostatistical Characterisation of Soil and Sediment Contamination: Leaving the Ivory Tower for the Field, Walis Forum, Perth, New Australia, November 2013. (link to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dRBz-pGB6U)
- The Impact of Place and Time on the Proportion of Late-stage Diagnosis: The Case of Prostate Cancer in Florida and Breast Cancer in Michigan, CRCSI (Cooperative Research Center for Spatial Information) Annual Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand, November 2013.
- The Importance of Spatial Support in Environmental Modeling and Decision-making, 11th International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, Lansing, Michigan, July 2014.