Dr. Hering was selected by The International Environmetrics Society (TIES) to receive the Abel El-Shaawari Early Investigator Award. Abel El-Shaawari is one of the founders of TIES and was its first president until 2000. The award was established in his honor to recognize statisticians in early career stages for having made outstanding contributions to the field of environmetrics. Dr. Hering was invited to the World Statistics Congress, held August 18-23, 2019 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to give a lecture and receive the award. She was commended as follows: “For significant and outstanding contributions to the environmental statistical and quantitative research as proved by the number and quality of publications in the statistical literature. She has strong interdisciplinary connections with other scientific communities, especially with respect to important environmental problems. She is also the recipient of highly-rated, externally-funded research projects. She has had long-term involvement with the Environmetrics community, together with being an Associate Editor for the Environmetrics journal.”