About Marital Status: Married, three daughters, four grandsons, three granddaughters Nationality: British Citizen, US Citizen Home Address: 909 West Campus Lane, Goleta, CA 93117 Home Phone: (805) 968-0244 Education Ph.D., Geography, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, 1969 B.A., Physics, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, 1965

Professional Experience

Director, Center for Spatial Studies (spatial@ucsb), University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007–
Editor for Methods, Models, and Geographic Information Sciences, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 2000–2006
Director, Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1999–
Chair, Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1998–2000
Director, The Varenius Project, 1997–2001
Visiting Professor, Birkbeck College, University of London, 1997
Chair, Mapping Science Committee, National Research Council, 1997–1999
Associate Director, Alexandria Digital Library, 1994–
Chair, Executive Committee, National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, 1997–
Director, National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, 1991–1996
Honorary Professor, University of Western Ontario, 1989–94
Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1989–
Co-Director, National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, 1988–91
Visiting Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1978, 1979, 1988–89
Editor, Geographical Analysis, 1987–90
Visiting Professor, University of Auckland, June 1986
Visiting Scholar, CSIRO, Canberra, January-May, 1986
Chairman, Department of Geography, University of Western Ontario, 1982–85
Professor, University of Western Ontario, 1979–1989
Associate Professor, University of Western Ontario, 1971–79
Research Associate, University of Iowa, June 1974
Visiting Associate Professor, University of Iowa, January-May 1974
Co-ordinator of Graduate Studies, University of Western Ontario, Department of Geography, 1973, 1981–82
Visiting Professor, University of Iowa, July 1973, as Instructor, NSF Institute, "The Instructional Use of Computerized Algorithms for Solving Location Problems"
Visiting Professor, McGill University, August 1972
Assistant Professor, University of Western Ontario, 1969–71

For more information about Dr. Michael Goodchild, please refere link as follows:

http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~good/