Professor David Goodall

CONTACT DETAILS

Office:	19:349 (Joondalup Campus)
Phone:	(08) 6304 5068
Fax:	(08) 6304 5509
Email:	d.goodall@ecu.edu.au

RESEARCH INTERESTS & PROJECTS

• Developing methods for probabilistic classification, and applying them (a) to Australian Drosera species and subspecies; (b) to vegetation data collected under Braun-Blanquet principles, of which a set derived from the Netherlands vegetation data-base serves as an example.
• Editor-in-Chief of the series "Ecosystems of the World.

POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS - PAST AND PRESENT

In the past, I have supervised some ten Master candidates, and the following doctoral candidates:

M. Norman (University of Reading, U.K. 1956)
Kent W. Bridges (University of California at Irvine, U.S.A. 1968)
Robert W. Johnson (Utah State University, U.S.A., 1974)
W.A.Loneragan (University of Western Australia, 1977)

PUBLICATIONS

1955 Objective methods for the classification of vegetation III. An essay in the use of factor analysis. Aust. J. Bot. 2: 304-324.

1966 A new similarity index based on probability Biometrics 22:882-907

1971 Building and testing excosystem models In: J.N.R.Jeffers (Editor) Mathematical Models in Ecology. 12th Symposium, British Ecological Society, March 1971. pp.173-194

1982 (with R.W.Johnson) Non-linear ordination in several dimensions. Vegetatio 48:197-208

1999 Environmental Management:the Precautionary Principle and Null Hypotheses. Pacific Conservation Biology, Vol. 5, Number 2: 78-80

2007 Excerpta Botanica - a valuable bibliographical source for vegetation science. Journal of Vegetation Science 18: 453-454.

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EDUCATION

1922-1927 Stationers' Company's School, Hornsey (North London)
1927-1932 St Paul's School, West London
1932-1939 Royal College of Science, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London University (1932-1935: undergraduate studies, 1935-1939: postgraduate research)

Degrees
1935 B. Sc. (Lond) A.R.C.Sc.
1941..Ph.D. (Lond) [Thesis: "Studies in the Assimilation of the Tomato Plant: The Distribution of the Assimilated Material among the Various Plant Organs"]
1953 D.Sc. (Melb.)
1990 D.Sc Nat..honoris causa, Università degli Studí di Trieste

EMPLOYMENT

1939-1946 Research Assistant, later Scientific Officer, Research Institute of Plant Physiology, stationed at East Malling Research Station, Kent

1946-1947 Plant Physiologist, West African Cacao Research Institute, Tafo, Ghana

1948-1952 Senior Lecturer in Botany, University of Melbourne

1952-1954 Senior Lecturer, later Reader, in Botany, University College of the Gold Coast (now University of Ghana), Achimota, Ghana

1954-1956 Professor of Agricultural Botany, University of Reading, England

1956-1961 Senior Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Plant Science: Director of the CSIRO Tobacco Research Institute, Mareeba, Qld

1961-1967 Senior Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Mathematical Statistics, Perth

1967-1968 Professor of Biological Sciences, Department of Population and Environmental Biology,University of California, Irvine

1968-1974 Professor of Systems ecology, Ecology Center, Utah State University, Logan, with memberships in the Departments of Botany (later Biology) and Range Science

1974-1979 Senior Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Land Resources Management, Canberra, Deniliquin and Perth

1979 Retired.

CONCURRENT AND HONORARY POSITIONS
1965-1967. Honorary Reader in Botany, University of Western Australia

1968-1974. Director, U.S.I.B.P. Desert Biome program

1974 to present. Editor-in-Chief, volume series "Ecosystems of the World"

1972-1978 Consultant for the program "Systems Analysis of Mediterranean Desert Ecosystems of Northern Egypt (SAMDENE)

1974-1978 Member of the Advisory Committee for the Swedish Coniferous Forest Project

1979-1998 C.S.I.R.O Honorary Research Fellow, first with the CSIRO Division of Land Resources Management, and then with the Division of Wildlife & Ecology

1998 to present. Honorary Research Associate, Centre for Ecosystem Management, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Perth, Western Australia.

PRIZES / AWARDS
1935 Forbes Memorial Prize and Medal, Royal College of Science

1937-1939 Beit Scientific Research Fellowship, Imperial College

1994. Distinguished Statistical Ecologist award, at VI International Congress of Ecology.