Edward D. Goldberg
| Edward D. Goldberg | |
|---|---|
| Born |
August 2, 1921 Sacramento, California, United States |
| Died | March 7, 2008 (aged 86) Encinitas, California, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | marine chemist |
| Institutions | Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago |
| Doctoral advisor | Harrison Brown |
| Notable awards | Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (1989) |
Edward D. Goldberg (August 2, 1921 – March 7, 2008) was a marine chemist, known for his studies of pollution in the oceans.
Goldberg was born on August 2, 1921, in Sacramento, California. He received his B.S. in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1942, and then, after serving in the Navy during World War II, did his graduate studies under the supervision of Harrison Brown at the University of Chicago, where he received his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1949. For the rest of his life, he worked as a professor of chemistry at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. He died March 7, 2008, in Encinitas, California.
The director of Scripps, Tony Haymet, wrote about him that
Goldberg wrote more than 225 research papers and a number of books, largely concerning ocean geochemistry, marine life in coastal waters, and man's impact on the ocean.
One of Goldberg's earliest studies on ocean pollution concerned sewage in Santa Monica Bay. Goldberg warned of pollution's risk to all ocean life at the 1969 American Geophysical Union conference.
Later, in the 1970s, Goldberg began the EPA-funded Mussel Watch program, which measured ocean pollution by its effects on shellfish. His studies led him to push for a ban on tributyltin, a chemical that was used in ship paint for its toxic effects on barnacles but that was poisoning the mussels in San Diego Bay. Goldberg also published highly cited works on colloids in ocean water and on pollution from fossil fuel consumption.
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