Department News
Deborah Goldberg
- Elzada U. Clover Collegiate Professor and Chair
- Ph.D., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, 1980
Contact information
- University of Michigan
2019 / 1056 Kraus Natural Science Building
830 North University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1048 - Phone: (734) 615-4912
- Fax: (734) 763-0544
- Email: degold@umich.edu
Fields of study
Community ecology, plant ecology
Academic background
Deborah Goldberg received her B.A. from Barnard College in 1975 and her Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 1980, was a postdoctoral fellow at the Kellogg Biological Station of Michigan State University from 1980-1983, and has been on the faculty at the University of Michigan since 1983. She is currently professor and chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and served as the interim director of the University Herbarium in 2002-3. She has also held appointments as a visiting faculty member at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of New Mexico, and the Blaustein Institute for Desert Research at Ben Gurion University in Israel. She has served or is serving on the editorial boards of Ecology and Ecological Monographs, the American Naturalist, American Midland Naturalist, Journal of Vegetation Science, Conservation Ecology, and Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, as well as the Advisory Council of the International Association of Vegetation Science and the Science Advisory Board of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis.
Graduate students
Serge Farinas and John Guittar
Postdoctoral fellows
UM affiliation
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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Professor Meghan Duffy has been named an Early Career Fellow of the Ecological Society of America.
Dr. Kenneth Elgersma has been awarded a $50,000 research grant from U-M’s new Water Center to support Great Lakes restoration and protection efforts.
Colleagues and friends gathered to celebrate the many successes of Professor Deborah Goldberg as chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology for the past 12 years.
