Charles Goldman

Charles Remington Goldman (born November 9, 1930 in Urbana, Illinois) is an American limnologist and ecologist. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Department of Environmental Science of the University of California, Davis.

Education Goldman received a Bachelor of Arts with a major in geology in 1952 and a Master of Science in zoology in 1955, both from the University of Illinois. He received a Doctor of Philosophy in zoology in 1958 from the University of Michigan.

Career From 1957 to 1958, Goldman worked as a Fisheries Research Biologist for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in Alaska. In 1958, he joined the University of California, Davis as an instructor and was promoted to full professor of zoology in 1966. From 1966 to 1969, and again from 1990 to 1991, he served as the founding director of the Institute of Ecology.

Research In the mid-1960s, Goldman established the Tahoe Research Group at UC Davis, which later become the Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC). Goldman was instrumental in reestablishing the European Crayfish Industry with resistant Lake Tahoe Crayfhis following a plague of North American origin that decimated the European native crayfish stocks.

Goldman's research has taken him to every continent on the globe, from Oregon's Crater Lake to Antarctica, where a glacier is named in honor of his research. ... He was part of the United Nations' expedition that resulted in declaring Lake Baikal an international heritage lake. In 1991 he was a founder if the Tahoe-Baikal Institute which sponsored exchange between students in the United States and Russia who are interested in environmental management. In 1998, he received the Albert Einstein World Award of Science. He was one of the inaugural Fellows of the Ecological Society of America, elected in 2012.

Selected publications with Alexander J. Horne: Limnology, McGraw Hill 1983 as editor with James McEvoy III and Peter J. Richerson: Environmental quality and water development, Freeman, San Francisco 1973 as editor with Michio Kumagai and Richard D. Robarts: Climatic Change and Global Warming of Inland Waters: Impacts and Mitigation for Ecosystems and Societies, Chichester, West Sussex, UK : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2013.