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Professor Michael J ('Mike') Barnsley, our friend and colleague, died on 6 December 2007 in Swansea's Singleton Hospital, following a recurrence of the melanoma he had suffered from in recent years. Born in 1960, Mike grew up and was educated in North London and went on to gain a first-class honours degree, and a PhD in 1986, from the University of Reading. Following a lectureship at Birkbeck and University College London, in 1995 he became Research Professor of Remote Sensing and GIS in the Department of Geography at Swansea University. By March 2007 he was founding Director of the School of the Environment and Society and Pro Vice Chancellor of the University....