Steven Michael Goodman (born August 3, 1957) is an American

conservation biologist Conservation biology is the study of the conservation of nature and of Earth's biodiversity with the aim of protecting species, their habitats, and ecosystems from excessive rates of extinction and the erosion of biotic interactions. It is an int ...

, and field biologist on staff in the Department of Zoology at the

Field Museum of Natural History The Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH), also known as The Field Museum, is a natural history museum in Chicago, Illinois, and is one of the largest such museums in the world. The museum is popular for the size and quality of its educational ...

in Chicago.

Life

He graduated from the Interlochen Arts Academy High School in 1975. He graduated from the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

with a B.S. in 1984, from the

University of Hamburg The University of Hamburg (german: link=no, Universität Hamburg, also referred to as UHH) is a public research university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by combining the previous General Lecture System ('' Allgemeines Vor ...

with a Ph.D. in 2000, and from the Université Paris-Sud XI, with an H.D.R. in 2005. In the early 1990s, with the

World Wildlife Fund The World Wide Fund for Nature Inc. (WWF) is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1961 that works in the field of wilderness preservation and the reduction of human impact on the environment. It was formerly named the Wo ...

, he created the Ecological Training Program (ETP).

Awards

*2005

MacArthur Fellows Program The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 ind ...

*Biodiversity Award

Works

*''Extinct Madagascar: Picturing the Island's Past''. Steven M. Goodman, William L. Jungers, University of Chicago Press, 2014, *''The Natural History of Madagascar''. Editors Steven M. Goodman, Jonathan P. Benstead, University of Chicago Press, 2003, *''The Birds of Egypt''. Edited by Steven M. Goodman & Peter L. Meininger, Oxford University Press, 1989,

References

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