Dr. Goldman will discuss "Long-term Ecosystem Studies and Their Political Implications: Lessons to be Learned from the Lake Tahoe Experience."

Charles Goldman, professor of limnology in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy, has been with the University of California, Davis since 1958. He developed the first courses in limnology and oceanography at UC Davis and was founding director of the Institute of Ecology. He has served on many national and international committees and is frequently sought for consultation and research missions to foreign countries on major environmental problems. He has been able to translate research findings directly to state, national and international policy decisions, contributing decisively to the conservation and judicious use of aquatic resources from the Antarctic to the lakes and wetlands of South and Central America, New Guinea, Africa, Asia, Europe and the United States.

Dr. Goldman was awarded the 1998 Albert Einstein World Award of Science. The Einstein Award, bestowed annually to a single individual by a council of eminent scientists which includes 25 Nobel laureates, recognizes those who have accomplished scientific and technological achievements that have advanced scientific understanding and benefited humanity.

His single most important and sustained contribution is the 40 years of research on Lake Tahoe, California. Dr. Goldman is Director of the Tahoe Research Group and has pursued long-term ecological research simultaneously at Lake Tahoe and Castle Lake, California, since 1958. He successfully combined effective research and social action with his pioneering studies of lake eutrophication. These have been directly applied to engineering solutions, social needs, and legal decisions. This work has recently included the development of artificial wetlands and research on alternatives to conventional road salt for de-icing highways. This relationship of basic science to political change has been of particular importance to the Lake Tahoe basin.