瓦特林·路德奖得主－－院士Michael F. Goodchild

“瓦特林·路德奖（Prix Vautrin Lud）”，被认为是地理学的诺贝尔奖，评选也严格按照诺贝尔奖的程序进行。瓦特林·路德是十六世纪初法国圣迪耶市的一个牧师，他托管了随紧哥伦布之后发现美洲新大陆的亚美利哥·韦斯普奇的航海日记，遂出版《宇宙志概论》，正式将新大陆命名为“亚美利哥”，并首次绘制在地图和地球仪上，纠正了哥伦布认为美洲不过是亚洲东部的错误认识，成为美洲名称的由来。所以自1990年后，一年一度的国际地理节在圣迪耶举行，并颁发以瓦特林·路德的名字命名的地理学 “诺贝尔奖”。

1990年以来的“瓦特林·路德国际地理学奖”分别是：
Peter Haggett (UK), 1991
Torsten Hägerstrand (Sweden) and Gilbert F. White (USA), 1992
Peter Gould (USA), 1993
Milton Santos (Brazil), 1994
David Harvey (UK), 1995
Brownish Roger and Paul Claval (both from France), 1996
Jean-Bernard Racine (Switzerland), 1997
Doreen Massey (UK), 1998
Ron Johnston (UK), 1999
Yves Lacoste (France), 2000
Peter Hall (UK), 2001
Bruno Messerli (Switzerland), 2002
Allen Scott (USA), 2003
Philippe Pinchemel (France), 2004
Brian J. L. Berry (USA), 2005
Heinz Wanner (Switzerland), 2006
Michael F. Goodchild (USA), 2007

里面很多人都是鼎鼎大名，如Haggett，Hägerstrand， David Harvey， Peter Hall等，当然对于地理信息科学领域的人而言，最熟悉的还是Goodchild。他今年荣获此奖，也是所有GIS领域人的荣耀，就像他当选美国科学院院士一样。记得以前本校一位前辈学者经常说，我们搞地理的是没法获得诺贝尔奖的。诚然这句话没错，但瓦特林·路德奖仍是我们奋斗的方向。祝贺Goodchild，同时也祝贺GIS。

迈克尔·F·Goodchild教授是美国科学院唯一的一位地理信息科学院士、加州大学圣巴巴拉分校国家地理信息与分析中心执行委员会主席，以下是关于迈克尔·F·Goodchild教授的一篇英文原文介绍：

 

Michael F. Goodchild is Professor 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 Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science. 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.

 

He was elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2002. He has received honorary doctorates from Laval University (1999) and Keele University (2001). In 1990 he was given the Canadian Association of Geographers Award for Scholarly Distinction, in 1996 the Association of American Geographers award for Outstanding Scholarship, in 1999 the Canadian Cartographic Association?s Award of Distinction for Exceptional Contributions to Cartography, in 2002 the Educator of the Year Award from the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, and in 2003 the Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society. In 2001 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. 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. In 2000 he was appointed Editor of the Methods, Models, and Geographic Information Sciences section of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers.

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); Geographical Information Systems: Principles, Techniques, Management and Applications (1999); Geographic Information Systems and Science (2001); Spatial Uncertainty in Ecology (2001); and Uncertainty in Geographical Information (2002); in addition he is author of some 300 scientific papers. He was Chair of the National Research Council?s Mapping Science Committee from 1997 to 1999; has been a member of NRC's Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications; and is currently a member of NRC's Committee on Geography. His current research interests center on geographic information science, spatial analysis, the future of the library, and uncertainty in geographic data. 专业的3S站 3s8.cn

以下为迈克尔·F·Goodchild教授的联系方式：
地址：3611 Ellison Hall, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4060, USA
电话： (805) 893-8049,
传真: (805) 893-3146

Email: good@geog.ucsb.edu
Web: http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~good/