Reg Golledge

Reg Golledge
UCGIS is pleased to announce that Professor Reg Golledge has been awarded its 2002 Research Award. He was nominated for the Presidential Address that he delivered at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. This address was published earlier this year in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers. The paper represents a lifetime of truly excellent and innovative work. Additionally, several of his contributions in 2001 focused on GIS technology and its application to behavioral problems, and products from his "Haptic Soundscapes Project."

Dr. Golledge has had a remarkable career and he has been a leading contributor on a variety of geographic topics for nearly four decades. His contributions span urban and regional modeling, transportation, migration, economic, methodology and statistical analyses, cognitive mapping and spatial learning, spatial choice and behavior, cartography and visualization, multimedia communication, and geographic education. He has received many grants and served on numerous grant funding and research policy committees during this career. His important contributions include linking geography and other social science disciplines to geographic information science.

University of California, Santa Barbara, is one of the founding members of UCGIS. UCGIS members include research universities and laboratories, international university, private corporations and federal government affiliates