Michael Frank Goodchild
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Michael Frank Goodchild (born February 24, 1944) is a British-American geographer. 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.[2] In 2008, he founded the UCSB Center for Spatial Studies.
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Born | (1944-02-24) February 24, 1944 (age 80) |
Education | University of Cambridge McMaster University |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | University of Western Ontario University of California, Santa Barbara University of Washington Arizona State University |
Thesis | The Generation of Small Scale Relief Features of Eroded Limestone: A Study of Erosional Scallops (1969) |
Doctoral advisor | Derek C. Ford[1] |
Doctoral students | Alan Glennon |
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