Steven Michael Goodman (born August 3, 1957)^[1] is an American conservation biologist, and field biologist on staff in the Department of Zoology at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.^[2]

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,^[3] from the University of Hamburg with a Ph.D. in 2000,^[3] and from the Université Paris-Sud XI, with an H.D.R. in 2005.^[3] In the early 1990s, with the World Wildlife Fund, he created the Ecological Training Program (ETP).^[4]

Awards

• 2005 MacArthur Fellows Program^[5]
• Biodiversity Award^[6]

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