Education
Doctor of Philosophy, Geography, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, 1969
Bachelor of Arts, Physics, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, 1965.
Doctor of Philosophy, Geography, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, 1969
Bachelor of Arts, Physics, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, 1965.
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
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.