Michael F. Goodchild

Michael F. Goodchild is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Director of UCSB’s Center for Spatial Studies. He received his BA degree from Cambridge University in Physics in 1965 and his PhD in geography from McMaster University in 1969. He was elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and Foreign Member of the Royal Society of Canada in 2002, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006, and Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society in 2010; and in 2007 he received the Prix Vautrin Lud. He was editor of Geographical Analysis between 1987 and 1990 and editor of the Methods, Models, and Geographic Information Sciences section of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers from 2000 to 2006. He serves on the editorial boards of ten other journals and book series, and has published over 15 books and 400 articles. He was Chair of the National Research Council’s Mapping Science Committee from 1997 to 1999, and currently chairs the Advisory Committee on Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences of the National Science Foundation. His current research interests center on geographic information science, spatial analysis, and uncertainty in geographic data.

Publications

The Role of Social Networks in Emergency Management: A Research Agenda
The Role of Social Networks in Emergency Management: A Research Agenda
Linna Li, Michael F. Goodchild. © 2012. 10 pages.
Lack of relevant information, particularly geospatial information, is one of the major challenges in emergency management. In the past few years, geospatial information created...
Foreword
Foreword
Michael F. Goodchild. © 2011. 2 pages.
This Foreword is included in the book Geospatial Web Services: Advances in Information Interoperability.
The Role of Social Networks in Emergency Management: A Research Agenda
The Role of Social Networks in Emergency Management: A Research Agenda
Linna Li, Michael F. Goodchild. © 2010. 11 pages.
Lack of relevant information, particularly geospatial information, is one of the major challenges in emergency management. In the past few years, geospatial information created...