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Charles Remington Goldman (born 9 November 1930 in Urbana, Illinois) is an American limnologist and ecologist.
Education and career
Goldman graduated from the University of Illinois with B.A. in geology in 1952 and M.S. in zoology in 1955. He received his Ph.D. in limnology-fisheries in 1958 from the University of Michigan. From 1957 to 1958 he was a Fisheries Research Biologist with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in Alaska. At the University of California, Davis he became in 1958 an instructor and was promoted in 1966 to full professor of zoology. There he was from 1966 to 1969 and from 1990 to 1991 the director of the Institute of Ecology and from 1971 a professor of environmental studies, as well as Distinguished Professor of Limnology.
In the late 1960s Goldman established the Tahoe Research Group at U.C. Davis.
His four decades of research on Lake Tahoe, California, have included lake dynamics, eutrophication, the development of artificial wetlands, de-icing agents for highways, and comparative analyses of Lake Baikal, Russia, and hydroelectric impoundments worldwide.
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 recommended declaring Lake Baikal an international heritage lake. In 1991 he founded the Tahoe-Baikal Institute to sponsor exchange between students in the United States and Russia who are interested in environmental management.
He did environmental studies in connection with dam projects in Honduras, Argentina, Ecuador, and Papua New Guinea.
He served as vice president of the Ecological Society of America, as president of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, and on many national and international committees, notably as chair of the U.S. National Committee of UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Programme.
In 1963 he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Goldman has published four books and over 400 scientific articles. He has produced four educational films, including three on Lake Tahoe and one on environmental protection in the tropics.
He was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1964–1965. In 1998 he received the Albert Einstein World Award of Science. U.C. Davis's Goldman-Schladow Limnology Fellowship is named in his honor.
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.