Waldo Tobler
Mailing Address:
Geography Department
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4060
office:
EH 5813phone:
(805)964-0116fax:
(805)893-2578email:
email: tobler_obf (at) obf.domain: geog.ucsb.eduwebsite:
http://geog.ucsb.edu/~tobler/
Research Interests:
Cartography, computational geography, transportation and movement, especially migration
Cartography, computational geography, transportation and movement, especially migration
Education:
PhD, University of Washington, Seattle (Geography), 1961
BA, University of Washington, Seattle
Honors:
Until his retirement, Waldo held the positions of Professor of Geography and Professor of Statistics. He formulated the "first law of geography" (1970) which states: "Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related to each other". Waldo is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and an Honorary Fellow of the American Geographical Society. He has received the O. M. Miller Cartographic Medal from the American Geographical Society. 1989, the Meritorious Contributor Medallion from the AAG, the Andrew McNally Award, the ESRI Lifetime Achievement Award, and the AAG Microcompter Specialty Award.
Until his retirement, Waldo held the positions of Professor of Geography and Professor of Statistics. He formulated the "first law of geography" (1970) which states: "Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related to each other". Waldo is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and an Honorary Fellow of the American Geographical Society. He has received the O. M. Miller Cartographic Medal from the American Geographical Society. 1989, the Meritorious Contributor Medallion from the AAG, the Andrew McNally Award, the ESRI Lifetime Achievement Award, and the AAG Microcompter Specialty Award.
Publications:
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