Dr. Mark E. Johnson is Professor of Statistics at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, and a Chartered Statistician with the Royal Statistical Society. He is the author of Multivariate Statistical Simulation (Wiley Applied Probability and Statistics Series) and has published in such journals as Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Technometrics, Biometrics, JASA, The American Statistician, J. of Statistical Planning and Inference, and Risk Analysis. Mark does extensive consulting in the area of catastrophic risks (especially hurricanes) and regularly is retained as an expert witness in legal cases.