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Goodall, David William (1914 - )

 
Botanist and Ecologist
Born: 4 April 1914  Edmonton, England
David William Goodall is an Honorary Research Associate at the Centre for Ecosystem Management at Edith Cowan University and Editor-in-Chief of the series Ecosystems of the World. Throughout his distinguished career which stretches over sixty years, Goodall has worked in the five major continents of the world and has (co-) authored well over 130 scientific works. His present interests include developing methods for probabilistic classification and its application to Australian Drosera species and subspecies and to vegetation data collected under Braun-Blanquet PRINCIPALs.

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URL: The home page for this entity is located at http://cem.ecu.edu.au/members/dgoodall.php

Chronology
1935Forbes Memorial Prize and Medal received from the Royal College of Science
1935Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of London
1939 - 1946Research Assistant then Scientific Officer at the Research institute of Plant Physiology at the East Malling Research Station in Kent, UK
1941Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at the University of London
1946 - 1947Plant Physiologist at the West African Cacao Research Institute in Tafo, Ghana
1948Migrated to Australia
1948 - 1952Senior Lecturer in Botany at the University of Melbourne
1952 - 1954Senior Lecturer, then Reader in Botany at the University College of the Gold Coast in Achimota, Ghana
1953Doctor of Science (DSc) received from the University of Melbourne
1954 - 1956Professor of Agricultural Botany at the University of Reading, UK
1956 - 1961Director of the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) Tobacco Research Institute in Mareeba, Queensland
1956 - 1961Senior Principal Research Scientist at the CSIRO Division of Plant Science
1961 - 1967Senior Principal Research Scientist at the CSIRO Division of Mathematical Statistics in Perth
1965 - 1967Honorary Reader in Botany at the University of Western Australia
1967 - 1968Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of California, USA
1968 - 1974Professor of Systems Ecology at the Ecology Centre at the Utah State University, USA
1974 - 1978Member of the Advisory Committee for the Swedish Coniferous Forest Project
1974 - 1979Senior Principal Research Scientist at the CSIRO Division of Land Resources Management in Canberra, Deniliquin and Perth
1979Retired
1979 - 1998Honorary Research Fellow at the CSIRO Division of Land Resources Management then the Division of Wildlife and Ecology
1990Doctor of Science Nat. honoris caua received from the Università degli Studí di Trieste, Italy
1998 - Honorary Research Associate at the Centre for Ecosystem Management at Edith Cowan University, Joondalup campus

 

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