Education:
PhD:
1958,
Limnology and Fisheries, University
of Michigan
M.S.:
1955, Zoology, University of Illinois,Urbana
BA: 1952, Geology, University of
Illinois, Urbana
Research:
Charles Goldman's fields of interest include
global studies of freshwater lakes with emphasis on biological, chemical
and physical interactions between the surrounding watersheds and lakes.
Particular emphasis has been on eutrophication of lakes, nutrient limiting
factors, the impact of climate and weather, and the use and importance
of long term data sets in environmental research utilizing nearly four
decades of research on Castle Lake and Lake Tahoe in California. The most
recent overseas research has been at Lake Baikal in Russia, where he has
made seven expeditions. The core research has been directed towards a better
understanding of lake processes and measures to preserve the water quality
of lakes.
He developed the
first courses in limnology and oceanography at UCD, served as Chair of the
Division of Environmental Studies from 1988-1992, and was founding Director of
the Institute of Ecology, serving from 1966-1969 and again in 1990-92.
Prior to his 40-year tenure at UC Davis, he earned Bachelor and Masters
degrees from the University of Illinois and a Ph.D. in Limnology-Fisheries from
the University of Michigan.
He has
supervised 86 graduate students and 30 postdoctorals during his 40 years at UC
Davis. Professor Goldman's many
prestigious awards include an NSF Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship in 1964 for
limnological research in the Arctic (Lapland), a Guggenheim Fellowship in
northern Italy in 1965, the "Goldman Glacier" in Antarctica named in
1967, served as President of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
in 1967-68, awarded the Antarctic Service Medal by Congress in 1968, and elected
a Fellow by the California Academy of Sciences in 1969.
In 1973-74, he was elected Vice President of the Ecological Society of
America, and accepted a Fulbright Distinguished Professorship to Yugoslavia in
1985. He was awarded the
Vollenweider Lectureship in Canada in 1989, the Chevron Conservation Award and
Culver Man-of-the Year in 1991, the Earle A. Chiles Award in 1992, and the UC
Davis Distinguished Public Service & Research Lecturer awards in 1993.
He
was elected Vice President of the International Society of Limnology (SIL) for
1992-98, and presented the prestigious Baldi Lecture at the triennial SIL
Congress in Ireland in August 1998. Dr.
Goldman has published four books and over 400 scientific articles, and has
produced four documentary films which are in worldwide distribution.
He has served on many national and international committees and is
frequently sought for consultation and research missions to foreign countries on
major environmental problems. In
1990 he was a member of a UNESCO team to qualify Lake Baikal as an International
Heritage Lake and Senior Scientist for the National Geographic Baikal project.
His single most important and sustained contribution is the 40 years of
research on Lake Tahoe. Professor
Goldman is Director of the Tahoe Research Group and has pursued long-term
ecological research simultaneously at Lake Tahoe and Castle Lake, California,
since 1958. He successfully
combined effective research and social action with his pioneering studies of
lake eutrophication. These have
been directly applied to engineering solutions, social needs, and legal
decisions. This work has recently
included the development of artificial wetlands and research on alternatives to
conventional road salt for deicing highways.
This relationship of basic science to political change has been of
particular importance to the Lake Tahoe basin.
During the summer of 1997, Dr. Goldman hosted President Clinton and Vice
President Gore aboard the UC Davis research vessel John
Le Conte during the Lake Tahoe Presidential Forum.
Similar studies have extended Dr. Goldman's research-social action
efforts to analysis of lakes like Baikal in Russia and hydroelectric
impoundments throughout the world. Thus, while aggressively pursuing basic research on lake
dynamics, he has also been able to translate the findings directly to state,
national and international policy decisions, contributing decisively to the
conservation and judicious use of aquatic resources from the Antarctic to the
lakes and wetlands of South and Central America, New Guinea, Africa, Asia,
Europe and the United States.
Professor
Goldmans career work has now been honored with his most prestigious award
yet: he received the 1998 Albert Einstein World Award of Science in a formal
ceremony last year in New Zealand. The
Einstein Award, bestowed annually to a single individual by a council of eminent
scientists which includes 25 Nobel laureates, recognizes those who have
accomplished scientific and technological achievements that have advanced
scientific understanding and benefited humanity.
Selected Publications:
Goldman, C.R., J.J. Elser, R.C. Richards, J.E. Reuter, J.C.
Priscu and A.L. Levin. 1996. Thermal stratification, nutrient dynamics,
and phytoplankton productivity during the onset of spring phytoplankton
growth in Lake Baikal, Russia. Hydrobiologia .
Goldman, C.R. 1993. The conservation of two large lakes: Tahoe and Baikal.
Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 25:388-391.
Goldman, C.R., A.D. Jassby and S.H. Hackley. 1993. Decadal, interannual,
and seasonal variability in enrichment bioassays at Lake Tahoe, California-Nevada,
USA. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 50(7):1489-1496.
Goldman, C.R., A. Jassby and T. Powell. 1989. Interannual fluctuations
in primary production: Meteorological forcing at two subalpine lakes. Limnol.
Oceanogr. 34(2):310-323.
Goldman, C.R. 1988. Primary productivity, nutrients, and transparency during
the early onset of eutrophication in ultra-oligotrophic Lake Tahoe, California-Nevada.
Limnol. Oceanogr. 33(6, part 1):1321-1333.
Teaching:
Dr. Goldman teaches the following upper-division courses.
EST 151. Limnology (4) III . Lecture - 3 hours; discussion--1 hour; special project. Prerequisite:
Biological Sciences 1A and junior standing. The biology and productivity
of inland waters with emphasis on the physical and chemical environment.
EST 151L. Limnology Laboratory (3)
III.
Laboratory--6 hours; two weekend field trips. Prerequisite:
course 151 (may be taken concurrently); junior, senior, or graduate standing.
Limnological studies of lakes, streams, and reservoirs with interpretation
of aquatic ecology.