Michael Frank Goodchild

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Mike Goodchild
Michael Frank Goodchild in 2017.
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

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.