Meet the Museum's only Field Biologist
Dr. Steve Goodman's work is legendary. He's the only scientist at The Field Museum with the title 'Field Biologist,' and spends 9-10 months out of the year conducting research in other countries,...
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This is Dr.. Steve Goodman. He's a field biologist here at the Field Museum and by here, I mean mostly everywhere but here. Since he was 19, Steve has studied animals and plants all over the world, first spending nine years in Egypt and Northern Sudan, and then working in Tanzania, Gabon, Central African Republic, South Africa, Pakistan, India, the Philippines and, since the early 90s, Madagascar. He's published 600 papers, 24 books, and nearly 10,000 pages of monographs. I don't exactly know the number of new species he's discovered, but according to a 2007 article calling him the 'Michael Jordan of Field Biology,' There are about a dozen species named in his honour - sometimes as an honor from a colleague and sometimes because ...
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This is Dr.. Steve Goodman. He's a field biologist here at the Field Museum and by here, I mean mostly everywhere but here. Since he was 19, Steve has studied animals and plants all over the world, first spending nine years in Egypt and Northern Sudan, and then working in Tanzania, Gabon, Central African Republic, South Africa, Pakistan, India, the Philippines and, since the early 90s, Madagascar. He's published 600 papers, 24 books, and nearly 10,000 pages of monographs. I don't exactly know the number of new species he's discovered, but according to a 2007 article calling him the 'Michael Jordan of Field Biology,' There are about a dozen species named in his honour - sometimes as an honor from a colleague and sometimes because ...
