Education
Doctor of Philosophy, Geography, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, 1969
Bachelor of Arts, Physics, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, 1965.
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Michael Goodchild
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Career
He is an Emeritus 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, as part of the establishment of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, which he directed for over 20 years. In 2008, he founded the UCSB Center for Spatial Studies.
As a doctoral student at McMaster University, Goodchild rediscovered Castleguard Cave (20 kilometers long, the longest cave in Canada).
His student Alan Glennon discovered an entrance and made significant discoveries to the Martin Ridge Cave System, Kentucky (518 kilometers long). Goodchild"s dissertation advisor, Doctor Derek C. Ford, is a highly-influential Canadian geomorphologist and karst scientist
Achievements
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Fellow of the British Academy, 2010 - Foreign Member of the Royal Society, 2010– Researcher of the Year, University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, 2010; Prix Vautrin Lud, Street Dié-des-Vosges, France, 2007; Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, since 2006; Honorary Doctor of Laws, Ryerson University, 2004; Honorary Doctor of Science, McMaster University, 2004; Professor, Wuhan University, since 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, since 2002; Member, National Academy of Sciences, since 2002; National Associate of the National Academies, since 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.
Membership
Royal Society; National Academy of Sciences. American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Royal Society of Canada.
British Academy]
Foreign Member of the Royal Society, since 2010.
