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Charles Goldman Environmental Studies Recipient 1992-1993 Since joining the UC Davis faculty in 1958, Dr. Goldman devoted his career to studying the effects of environmental pollutants on lake ecology. Much of his work focused on Lake Tahoe and the factors contributing to the decline of the lake’s clarity. While pursuing basic research on lake dynamics, Dr. Goldman translated his findings directly to state, national and international policy decisions, contributing decisively to the conservation and judicious use of aquatic resources from the Antarctic to South and Central America, New Guinea, Africa, Europe, and the United States. In the 1960’s, when his research established that the discharge of sewage into Lake Tahoe was contributing to the decline of the lake’s clarity, Dr. Goldman persuaded officials to begin exporting all sewage and solid waste from the Tahoe basin. He was instrumental in showing the need for and promoting the development of the Tahoe Regional Agency in 1970 to regulate development and land use in the Tahoe basin. In the late 1960s, Dr. Goldman established the Tahoe Research Group at UC Davis to conduct studies in limnology, hydrology, botany, soil science, meteorology, and social sciences int eh Tahoe basin. The research program, which he directs, addresses a variety of problems ranging from acid rain to the accelerated nutrient yield and resultant algal growth. Dr. Goldman’s research has taken him to every continent on the globe, form Oregon’s Crater lake to Antarctica where a glacier was named in honor of his research. He has led several expeditions to Russia’s Lake Baikal, the oldest and deepest lake on earth. Dr. Goldman was part of the United Nations’ expeditions that recommended declaring Baikal and international heritage lake. In 1991, Dr. Goldman founded the Tahoe-Baikal Institute to sponsor exchange between students in the United States and Russia who are interested in environmental management. |
