Biographical entry Goodall, David William (1914 - )

Summary

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 according to the Braun-Blanquet method.

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1935

Award - Forbes Memorial Prize and Medal received from the Royal College of Science

1935

Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of London

1939 - 1946

Career position - Research Assistant then Scientific Officer at the Research institute of Plant Physiology at the East Malling Research Station in Kent, UK

1941

Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at the University of London

1946 - 1947

Career position - Plant Physiologist at the West African Cacao Research Institute in Tafo, Ghana

1948

Life event - Migrated to Australia

1948 - 1952

Career position - Senior Lecturer in Botany at the University of Melbourne

1952 - 1954

Career position - Senior Lecturer, then Reader in Botany at the University College of the Gold Coast in Achimota, Ghana

1953

Education - Doctor of Science (DSc) received from the University of Melbourne

1954 - 1956

Career position - Professor of Agricultural Botany at the University of Reading, UK

1956 - 1961

Career position - Director of the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) Tobacco Research Institute in Mareeba, Queensland

1956 - 1961

Career position - Senior Principal Research Scientist at the CSIRO Division of Plant Science

1961 - 1967

Career position - Senior Principal Research Scientist at the CSIRO Division of Mathematical Statistics in Perth

1965 - 1967

Career position - Honorary Reader in Botany at the University of Western Australia

1967 - 1968

Career position - Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of California, USA

1968 - 1974

Career position - Professor of Systems Ecology at the Ecology Centre at the Utah State University, USA

1974 - 1978

Career position - Member of the Advisory Committee for the Swedish Coniferous Forest Project

1974 - 1979

Career position - Senior Principal Research Scientist at the CSIRO Division of Land Resources Management in Canberra, Deniliquin and Perth

1979

Life event - Retired

1979 - 1998

Career position - Honorary Research Fellow at the CSIRO Division of Land Resources Management then the Division of Wildlife and Ecology

1990

Education - Doctor of Science Nat. honoris causa received from the Università degli Studí di Trieste, Italy

1998 -

Career position - Honorary Research Associate at the Centre for Ecosystem Management at Edith Cowan University, Joondalup campus

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Published resources

Edited Books

• Clifford, Harold T. (ed.), Cambridge - Castlemaine: a Tribute to John Stewart Turner on the Occasion of his 80^th Birthday, Botany Department, University of Queensland, St Lucia, 1988, 71 pp. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Goodall, David W', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-614959. Details