Steven Goodman
Steven Michael Goodman ( born August 3, 1957) is an American biologist from the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. His research focus is the recent and extinct fauna of Madagascar.
Life
From 1973 to 1975 Goodman was a graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy High School. In 1984 he graduated from the University of Michigan Bachelor of Science. In 2000, he earned his doctorate at the University of Hamburg to the Ph.D. In 2005 he gained at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay, the Habilitation à diriger of recherches (HDR). Between 1981 and 1989 he operated zoological and botanical research in Egypt, Iraq and Pakistan. Since 1989 he has worked as a field biologist for the Field Museum of Natural History.
In 1991 he made on behalf of Conservation International 's first trip to Madagascar to study small mammals in Zahamena reserve. In the same year an expedition followed in the Usambara Mountains in Tanzania. 1992, and 1993 and 1994 he participated in training programs between the Field Museum of Natural History and the service of Paleontology at the Université d' Antananarivo. Between 1993 and 1995 he studied the biogeography of small mammals in the eastern Eastern Arc Mountains in Tanzania. Next, he worked during his research in Madagascar with Conservation International, WWF, the National Geographic Society, the American Museum of Natural History and the Université d' Antananarivo. At the beginning of the 1990s, founded and directed Goodman in collaboration with WWF - Madagascar, the Ecological Training Program (ETP ), which serves Malagasy biologists, trained and prepared to urgent environmental problems; a model that is copied to the ecologically vulnerable regions of Africa and around the world. In 2003 he published in collaboration with Jonathan P. Benstead and Harald protect his most famous work, The Natural History of Madagascar, which is the most comprehensive treatise on the flora and fauna of Madagascar since the late 19th century. 2005 Goodman was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.
Goodman described several recent and extinct species of Madagascar, including the Rotschultervanga ( Calicalicus rufocarpalis ), the Madagascar singer ( Cryptosylvicola randrianasoloi ) Microgale gymnorhyncha, Microgale monticola, Microgale nasoloi, the Berthe mouse lemur ( Microcebus berthae ), the Sambirano mouse lemur ( Microcebus sambiranensis ), the Northern mouse lemur ( Microcebus tavaratra ) Eliurus antsingy, Eliurus grandidieri, Monticolomys koopmani, Voalavo gymnocaudus, Coua berthae, the Madagascar Crowned Eagle ( Stephanoaetus mahery ), the Madagascar plover (Vanellus madagascariensis ) and the Ampoza - Erdracke ( Brachypteracias long randi ).
Dedikationsnamen
2005 Goodman was honored in the epithet of the Goodman - mouse lemur ( Microcebus lehilahytsara ), which gives the words " good" and " man " in Malagasy. In 2007, a fossil Malagasy bat species from the Pleistocene the name Triaenops goodmani.