Steven M. Goodman

Steven Michael Goodman (born August 3, 1957 ) is an American biologist from the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago . His research focus is the recent and extinct fauna of Madagascar.

Life

From 1973 to 1975, Goodman was a graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy High School. In 1984 he graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Science. In 2000 he received his Ph.D. from the University of Hamburg. In 2005 he obtained his habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR) at the University of Paris-Süd in Orsay . Between 1981 and 1989 he carried out zoological and botanical research in Egypt, Iraq and Pakistan. Since 1989 he has been working as a field biologist for the Field Museum of Natural History .

In 1991 he made his first excursion to Madagascar on behalf of Conservation International to research small mammals in the Zahamena Reserve. In the same year an expedition to the Usambara Mountains in Tanzania followed . In 1992 and 1993 and 1994 he participated in training programs between the Field Museum of Natural History and the Service des Paléontologie at the Université d'Antananarivo . Between 1993 and 1995 he studied the biogeography of small mammals in the eastern Eastern Arc Mountains in Tanzania. During his research in Madagascar he also worked with Conservation International, the WWF , the National Geographic Society , the American Museum of Natural History and the Université d'Antananarivo. At the beginning of the 1990s, Goodman founded and led the Ecological Training Program (ETP) in collaboration with WWF Madagascar, which supervises and trains Malagasy biologists and prepares them for urgent environmental protection problems; a model that is being copied in the ecologically endangered regions of Africa and around the world. In 2003, in collaboration with Jonathan P. Benstead and Harald Schutz, he published his best-known work The Natural History of Madagascar , which is the most extensive treatise on the flora and fauna of Madagascar since the late 19th century. In 2005 Goodman was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship .

Goodman described several recent and extinct species of Madagascar, including the Rotschultervanga ( Calicalicus rufocarpalis ), the Madagascar singer ( Cryptosylvicola randrianasoloi ) Microgale gymnorhyncha , Microgale monticola , Microgale nasoloi , the Madame Berthe's mouse lemur ( Microcebus berthae ), the Sambirano mouse lemur ( Microcebus sambiranensis ) , the Northern Mausmaki ( Microcebus tavaratra ) Eliurus antsingy , Eliurus grandidieri , the Madagascar-Berg mouse (Monticolomys koopmani), the Northern voalavo ( voalavo gymnocaudus ) Coua berthae , the Madagascar crown Adler ( Stephanoaetus mahery ), the Madagascar peewit ( Vanellus madagascariensis ) and the Ampoza-Erdracke ( Brachypteracias langrandi ).

Dedication names

In 2005, Goodman was honored in the type epithet of the Goodman mouse lemur ( Microcebus lehilahytsara ), which results in the words "good" and "man" in Malagasy . In 2007, a fossil Malagasy bat species from the Pleistocene was named Triaenops goodmani .

Works (selection)

• 1989: The Birds of Egypt
• 1997: Natural Change and Human Impact in Madagascar
• 2003: The Natural History of Madagascar.
• 2012: The Ethnobotany of Southern Balochistan, Pakistan: With Particular Reference to Medicinal Plants
• 2014: Atlas of Selected Land Vertebrates of Madagascar
• 2014: Extinct Madagascar: Picturing the Island's Past. University of Chicago Press. (with William L. Jungers and Velizar Simeonovski )
• 2017: Kapitel Family Nesomyidae (Pouched Rats, Climbing Mice and Fat Mice) In Handbook of the Mammals of the World. Volume 7. Rodents II, Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. (with Ara Monadjem)

literature

• Curriculum Vitae 2012 (Word document; 387 kB)

Web links

• Biography at the Interlochen Center for the Arts