Michael Barton is a complexity scientist and Professor in the Schools of Complex Adaptive Systems and Human Evolution & Social Change at Arizona State University (USA). Trained in anthropology and geosciences, his research on long-term human ecology, landscape dynamics, and the multi-dimensional interactions between social and biophysical systems, integrating geospatial technologies, computational modeling, and data science with geoarchaeological field studies. Barton has directed transdisciplinary research in the Mediterranean and North America for over three decades. Barton is Executive Director of the Open Modeling Foundation, a global consortium of organizations to promote standards and best practices in computational modeling across the social and natural sciences. He also directs the Network for Computational Modeling in Social and Ecological Sciences (CoMSES.Net), an international scientific network to enable accessibility, open science, and best practices for computation in the socio-ecological sciences. He has been a member of the GRASS development team for 2 decades and served on the GRASS Project Steering Committee from 2006 to 2024. Web page and CV at: https://cmbarton.github.io