• Born in San Jose, California, 1921

• Citizen of Canada and the United States

Educated at the University of California, Berkeley:

• A.B., 1947. Double Major: 1). Russian; and 2). Regional Group Major in Russia and Eastern Europe

• M.A., 1950. Geography. (Thesis: "Russian exploration in North America")

• Ph. D., 1953. Geography. (Dissertation: "Nicoya: historical geography of a Central American lowland community")

Professional Appointments:

• University of California Extension, Far East Program. Teacher, 1953-54.

• University of Chicago, Division of Social Sciences. Research Associate, 1954-55.

• University of Chicago, Department of Geography. Assistant Professor. 1955-61.

• University of California, Davis, Department of Geography. Associate Professor to Professor, 1963-67.

• University of California, Davis, College of Letters and Science. Associate Dean, 1965-67.

• University of California, Berkeley, Department of Geography. Associate Professor (1/3 time), 1964.

• Simon Fraser University, Department of Geography. Professor, 1967-87; Professor Emeritus, 1987- .

• Visiting Appointments over several years at the University of Texas in Austin

• Visiting Appointment at Boston University

• Six-week Institutes at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and also at Santa Clara University

• Languages: Speak, read and write French, Spanish, German, and (rusty) Russian. Some competence in Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Japanese, Farsi, etc..

• Travels: Throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean;
  Andean South America; Western and Southeastern Europe; Turkey and Iran; the
  Philippines, Japan, and Korea.