User:Grant McKenzie

Grant McKenzie is a second year PhD student in the Department of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He holds a Master of Applied Science degree from the University of Melbourne (2008) and an Advanced Diploma in Geographic Information Science from the British Columbia Institute of Technology (2004). During his time in Melbourne, Grant was the recipient of the J H Mirams Memorial Research Scholarship and awarded a Google Doctoral Colloquium Award & Scholarship for promising research proposal at the 2007 Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2007). Prior to starting his PhD, Grant was a founding member of the Seattle based start-up Spatial Development International and worked as a geospatial software developer for the Engineering Consulting firm CH2M Hill. Grant completed his Bachelor of Arts in Geography at the University of British Columbia in 2002.