Steven M. Goodman

{{Short description|American conservation biologist}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Steven Goodman | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = | imagesize = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1957|8|3}} | birth_place = | death_date =  | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates =  | other_names = | residence = | citizenship = United States of America | nationality = | fields = Biology | workplaces = | patrons = | education = Interlochen Arts Academy High School | alma_mater = University of Michigan<br /> University of Hamburg;<br />Paris-Sud 11 University | thesis_title =  | thesis_url =  | thesis_year =  | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = Ecological Training Program | influences = | influenced = | awards = MacArthur Fellows Program | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | spouse = Gandie Asmina | partner =  | children = Hesham Tafara Goodman | signature =  | signature_alt = | website =  | footnotes = }} '''Steven Michael Goodman''' (born August 3, 1957)<ref>{{cite web|title=Steven M. Goodman CV|url= https://www.fieldmuseum.org/sites/default/files/cv/SMGCV.August.2012.DOC|publisher=The Field Museum}}</ref> is an American conservation biologist, and field biologist on staff in the Department of Zoology at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.fieldmuseum.org/about/staff/profile/steven-goodman |title=Steve Goodman|work=The Field Museum|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230505124422/https://www.fieldmuseum.org/about/staff/profile/steven-goodman |archive-date=2023-05-05 }}</ref>

==Life== He graduated from the Interlochen Arts Academy High School in 1975. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.S. in 1984,<ref name="field">{{cite web |url=http://www.fieldmuseum.org/MUSEUM_INFO/press/press_goodman2.htm |title=The Field Museum Information: Press Room |website=www.fieldmuseum.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090317190634/http://www.fieldmuseum.org/museum_info/press/press_goodman2.htm |archive-date=2009-03-17}} </ref> from the University of Hamburg with a Ph.D. in 2000,<ref name="field"/> and from the Université Paris-Sud XI, with an H.D.R. in 2005.<ref name="field"/> In the early 1990s, with the World Wildlife Fund, he created the Ecological Training Program (ETP).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldwildlife.org/what/wherewework/madagascar/peoplestevegoodman.html|title=Madagascar|work=World Wildlife Fund}}</ref>

==Awards== *2005 MacArthur Fellows Program<ref>{{cite web|title=Steven Goodman – MacArthur Foundation|url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/760/ }}</ref> *Biodiversity Award<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.biodiversityleadershipawards.org/goodman.htm|title=Bay Biodiversity Awards -- Steven M. Goodman|work=biodiversityleadershipawards.org}}</ref>

==Works== *''Extinct Madagascar: Picturing the Island's Past''. Steven M. Goodman, William L. Jungers, University of Chicago Press, 2014, {{ISBN|978-0-226-14397-2}} *''The Natural History of Madagascar''. Editors Steven M. Goodman, Jonathan P. Benstead, University of Chicago Press, 2003, {{ISBN|978-0-226-30306-2}} *''The Birds of Egypt''. Edited by Steven M. Goodman & Peter L. Meininger, Oxford University Press, 1989, {{ISBN|0-19-857644-7}}

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