Michael Frank Goodchild

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Mike Goodchild lecturing at Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, April 18, 2002. Photo by Kevin N. Roark, LANL

Michael Frank Goodchild (born February 24,1944) is a British-American geographer. He is currently a professor of geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. After nineteen years at the University of Western Ontario, including three years as chair, he moved to Santa Barbara in 1988. Goodchild became a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2002, and received the Royal Geographical Society's Founder's Medal in 2003.

Contents

1 Education
2 Scholarship
3 Caves and Karst
4 Honors
5 Students
6 External links

Education

Ph.D., Geography, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, 1969
B.A., Physics, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, 1965

Scholarship

His most influential work has involved research on Geographic Information Science (aka GIS or computer mapping).

Caves and Karst

As a doctoral student at McMaster University, Goodchild discovered Castleguard Cave (20 kilometers long, the longest cave in Canada). His student John Alan Glennon discovered an entrance and made significant discoveries to the Martin Ridge Cave System, Kentucky (51.8 kilometers long). Goodchild's dissertation advisor, Dr. Derek C. Ford, is a highly-influential Canadian geomorphologist and karst scientist.

Honors

Honorary Doctor of Laws, Ryerson University, 2004; Honorary Doctor of Science, McMaster University, 2004; Professor, Wuhan University, 2003–; Faculty Research Lecturer, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2003; Founder's Medal, Royal Geographical Society, 2003; Educator of the Year, University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, 2002; Foreign Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, 2002–; Member, National Academy of Sciences, 2002–; National Associate of the National Academies, 2001–; Lifetime Achievement Award, Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), 2001; Honorary Doctor of Science, Keele University, 2001; Award of Distinction for Exceptional Scholarly Contributions to Cartography, Canadian Cartographic Association, 1999; Honorary Doctor of Science, Université Laval, 1999

Students

Karl Grossner (Ph.D. student 2005-)
Joshua L. Bader (Ph.D. student 2003-)
John Alan Glennon (Ph.D. student 2003-)
John Gallo (Ph.D. student 2000-)
Sean Benison (Ph.D. student 2000-)
Matt Rice, Ph.D., 2005
XiaoHang Liu, Ph.D., 2003
Ashton Shortridge, Ph.D., 2000
Charles Ehlschlaeger, Ph.D., 1998
Karen K. Kemp, Ph.D., 1992
Mark P. Kumler, Ph.D., 1992
Jay Lee, Ph.D., 1989
Catharine M. Hosage, Ph.D., 1985
C. Peter Keller, Ph.D., 1985
Valerian T. Noronha, Ph.D., 1985
Nina Lam, Ph.D., 1980
Fesenmaier, Daniel R., Ph.D., 1980
Waters, N.M., Ph.D., 1977
Brozowski, R., Ph.D., 1977
Maher, R.V., Ph.D., 1975
J.H. Ross, Ph.D., 1972

External links

[Michael F. Goodchild's homepage]

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