Charles R. Goldman

Charles Remington Goldman (born November 9, 1930 in Urbana , Illinois ) is an American limnologist and ecologist. He was a professor at the University of California, Davis (UCD).

Life

Goldman studied geology at the University of Illinois with a bachelor's degree in 1952 and then zoology with a master's degree in 1955. He received his doctorate in 1958 in limnology and fisheries from the University of Michigan . 1957/58 he was assigned to the US Fish and Wildlife Service in Alaska with fishery studies. In 1958 he became an instructor and later professor of zoology at UCD. 1966 to 1969 he was there director of the Institute for Ecology and from 1971 he was there professor for environmental studies (Environmental Studies).

In addition to around 400 scientific publications, he also made four documentaries. He conducted research at Lake Tahoe for many years , but undertook field studies in all continents (including Antarctica). He was involved in environmental studies, for example in connection with dam construction projects in Honduras, Argentina, Ecuador and Papua New Guinea.

From 1988 he was chairman of the US national committee of the UNESCO Man and Biosphere Program . In 1998 he received the Albert Einstein World Award of Science . In 1965 he was a Guggenheim Fellow .

Fonts

• with Alexander J. Horne: Limnology , McGraw Hill 1983
• Editor with James McEvoy III, Peter J. Richerson: Environmental quality and water development , Freeman, San Francisco 1973

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
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