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Executive Bios  Michael Goodchild, Principal Investigator Department of Geography University of California, Santa Barbara 3611 Ellison Hall Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4060 Email: URL: http://pollux.geog.ucsb.edu/~good/index.html Michael Goodchild is Professor and Chair of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara; Chair of the Executive Committee, National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA); Associate Director of the Alexandria Digital Library Project; and Director of NCGIA's Varenius project. He received his BA degree from Cambridge University in Physics in 1965 and his PhD in Geography from McMaster University in 1969. After 19 years at the University of Western Ontario, including three years as Chair, he moved to Santa Barbara in 1988. He was Director of NCGIA from 1991 to 1997. In 1999 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Laval University. In 1990 he was given the Canadian Association of Geographers Award for Scholarly Distinction, and in 1996 the Association of American Geographers award for Outstanding Scholarship;and in 1999 the Canadian Cartographic Association's Award of Distinction for Exceptional Contributions to Cartography; he has won the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Intergraph Award and twice won the Horwood Critique Prize of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association. He was Editor of Geographical Analysis between 1987 and 1990, and serves on the editorial boards of ten other journals and book series. His major publications include Geographical Information Systems: Principles and Applications (1991); Environmental Modeling with GIS (1993); Accuracy of Spatial Databases (1989); GIS and Environmental Modeling: Progress and Research Issues (1996); Scale in Remote Sensing and GIS (1997); Interoperating Geographic Information Systems (1999); and Geographical Information Systems: Principles, Techniques, Management and Applications (1999); in addition he is author of some 300 scientific papers. He is currently Chair of the National Research Council's Mapping Science Committee. His current research interests center on geographic information science, spatial analysis, the future of the library, and uncertainty in geographic data. [TOP]  Donald Janelle, Program Director Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science University of California 3510 Phelps Hall Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4060 Email: Donald Janelle is Research Professor and Program Director for the Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science at the University of California Santa Barbara. He was at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada from 1970 to 2000, serving as Chair of the Department of Geography (1991-96) and as Assistant Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs (1998-2000). From 1966 to 1969, he was on the geography faculty at the U.S. Air Force Academy. He received a BA in Geography from the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now the University of Louisiana) in 1963 and earned MA and PhD degrees in Geography from Michigan State University, in 1965 and 1966, respectively. He received the Outstanding Service Award from the Association of American Geographers, East Lakes Division, in 1985 and again 1989, and the Edward L. Ullman Award for Career Contributions to Transportation Geography by the Association of American Geographers (AAG) in 2000. His research specializations are in Urban Geography, Locational Conflict Behavior, Urban-Regional Spatial-Systems Development, Transportation Geography, Time Geography and Human Activity Patterns, and Geographies of Telecommunication and Information Technologies. He was Councillor at Large, Canadian Regional Science Association, 1978-80; Chair, AAG, East Lakes Division, 1981-83; Executive Committee (ex-officio), Canadian Association of Geographers, 1984-88; Chair, AAG Annual Meeting Program Committee, 1985; Chair, AAG Publications Committee, 1988-91; AAG Councillor, 1988-91; and Chair of the Publications Program and member of the, Board of Directors of the 1992 International Geographical Congress. He served on the Adjudication Committee, Canada - United States Fulbright Program, 1990-93; and on the 1996 AAG Honors Committee. He is currently Co-Chair (with Stanley Brunn), AAG 2204 Centennial Coordinating Committee. He was Editor of The Canadian Geographer from 1984-88 and served on the Editorial Boards of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 1988-93; East Lakes Geographer, 1985-88; The Professional Geographer, 1982-84; and The Canadian Journal of Regional Science, 1978-85. In 1998, he co-directed (with David Hodge) the NCGIA Varenius Research Conference on Measuring and Representing Accessibility in the Information Age and co-edited the resulting book - Information, Place, and Cyberspace: Issues in Accessibility (Springer-Verlag, 2000). [TOP]  Luc Anselin, Principal Investigator of the subcontract to Illinois Department of Agricultural & Consumer Economics University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Email: URL: http://www.spacestat.com Luc Anselin is currently Senior Research Professor at the Regional Economics Applications Laboratory (REAL) and Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, the Department of Geography and the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He previously was Director of the Bruton Center for Development Studies at the University of Texas, Dallas. He has also held faculty positions at West Virginia University, The University of California, Santa Barbara and The Ohio State University. He is on the faculty of the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods at the University of Michigan, where he teaches courses on spatial data analysis in the social sciences. He is a member of the National Consortium on Violence Research (NCOVR). His Ph.D. (1980) in Regional Science is from Cornell University and he holds a Masters in Econometrics, Statistics and Operations Research from the Free University of Brussels (Belgium), where he also obtained an undergraduate degree (Licenciate) in Economics. Dr. Anselin's research deals with various aspects of spatial data analysis, ranging from exploratory spatial data analysis, to GIS and spatial econometrics, with substantive applications in regional economics, environmental economics, real estate economics as well as in epidemiology, criminology and political science. He has lectured widely on these topics and held advanced workshops for the Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm), Cornell University, the World Bank, and the Urban Institute, among others. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the US Department of Agriculture, the National Consortium on Violence Research and the Centers for Disease Control, among others. Dr. Anselin has published widely on topics dealing with spatial analysis, including a much cited book on Spatial Econometrics (Kluwer 1988), two edited volumes, and more than seventy journal articles and book chapters. He is the author of the SpaceStat software package for spatial data analysis and the SpaceStat and DynESDA extensions for ArcView (http://www.spacestat.com). He is also an editor of the International Regional Science Review, was formerly Editor-in-Chief of the Papers in Regional Science and serves on the editorial board of several journals in regional science and analytical geography. [TOP]
 Helen Couclelis Department of Geography University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4060 Email: Helen Couclelis is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She holds a Doctorate from the University of Cambridge, England, a Diploma in Urban and Regional Planning from the Technical University of Munich, Germany, and an MA. equivalent in Architecture from the Technical University of Athens, Greece. In 1999 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. Prior to joining the UCSB Geography Department in 1982, Dr. Couclelis spent several years as a professional planner and policy advisor in Greece. Former positions include: secretary of the Committee for Urban Development, 15-year National Plan of Greece, Center for Planning and Economic Research; assistant project manager of a major planning project involving urban development plans for 20 Nigerian cities, with Doxiadis Associates, Greece; and member of a policy advisory group attached to a council of Ministers of the Greek Government responsible for urban, regional, and environmental matters. She also represented Greece on several European Community and UN meetings and task forces. Dr. Couclelis has been a visiting research professor at the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Waterloo, Canada (1981), a visiting researcher at the Institute of Urban and Regional Development of the University of California at Berkeley (1982), and a visiting Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University (1987). The research interests of Dr. Couclelis are in the areas of urban and planning theory and modeling, in behavioral geography and spatial cognition, and in geographic information science. Recent research and publications include work on cellular automata models of urban dynamics, on representations of space in both human cognition and computers, in the geography of the information society, and in the development of GIS-based approaches to help resolve locational conflicts in planning. She is a co-editor of the journal Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design. She has co-edited A Ground for Common Search (with P. Gould and R.G. Golledge) and Geographic Information Research: Bridging the Atlantic (with M. Craglia). She was Associate Director of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) from 1993 to 1996. [TOP]  Barbara Herr Harthorn Institute of Social, Behavioral & Economic Research Department of Anthropology University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: Barbara Herr Harthorn is Co-Director of the Center for Global Studies at the Institute for Social, Behavioral, & Economic Research, a Research Anthropologist, and Director of Social Science Research Development at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She received her BA degree from Bryn Mawr College in Anthropology in 1973 and her PhD in Anthropology in 1983 from the University of California at Los Angeles. She has conducted extensive field research in East Africa, Melanesia, Polynesia, and rural and urban US with support from the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Child Health and Development, the UC MEXUS program, UCLA, and the UCSB Center for Chicano Studies. Her research centers on the social production of health inequality. Her current funded research projects, all in California, include two studies of Mexican-origin farmworkers' health and an environmental justice project using Public Participation GIS in mediating environmental health conflict about pesticide drift. She has published articles in a number of medical, public health, and anthropological journals.  Terence Smith Department of Computer Science University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: Terence R. Smith is Professor of Geography and Professor of Computer Science at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB). He was Chair of the Department of Computer Science at UCSB (1986-90) and Associate Director of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (1988-90). He directs the Alexandria Digital Library Project at UCSB, and is PI on a five-year award to develop the Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype under NSF/NASA/ARPA's DLI-2 program. His research interests are the modeling of fluvial phenomena, computational modeling systems; digital libraries for scientific and geo-referenced information; and spatial database systems. He is the author of over 100 published research papers. [TOP]  Stuart Sweeney Department of Geography University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4060 Email: Stuart Sweeney is an Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is an executive committee member of the Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science and a faculty affiliate/advisor for the Quantitative Methods for Social Sciences graduate emphasis at UC Santa Barbara. His research is broadly focused on modeling local labor market dynamics in an interregional setting. Specific research themes related to local labor markets include modeling occupational migration and mobility processes, studying the economic effects of depopulation, and modeling agglomeration as spatial point process. He is currently engaged in research projects funded by the U.S. Department of Labor and the National Science Foundation. [TOP] advice | contact | core programs | community center | home | mission statement | personnel | portal to resources | privacy statement | search | site map |
