Background
Madison Lee Goff was born on the 19th of January, 1944 in Glendale, California, United States, the son of Madison L. and Margaret J. Dyson Goff.
1974
1250 Bellflower Blvd, Long Beach, CA 90840, United States
M. Lee Goff attended California State University Long Beach, where he earned a Master of Science degree in Biology in 1974.
1977
2500 Campus Rd, Honolulu, HI 96822, United States
M. Lee Goff studied at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Zoology in 1966 and in 1977, he obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Entomology.
2000
M. Lee Goff inspects the skull of a pig.
2015
M. Lee Goff
(The forensic entomologist turns a dispassionate, analytic...)
The forensic entomologist turns a dispassionate, analytic eye on scenes from which most people would recoil human corpses in various stages of decay, usually the remains of people who have met a premature end through accident or mayhem. To Lee Goff and his fellow forensic entomologists, each body recovered at a crime scene is an ecosystem, a unique microenvironment colonized in succession by a diverse array of flies, beetles, mites, spiders, and other arthropods: some using the body to provision their young, some feeding directly on the tissues and by-products of decay, and still others preying on the scavengers.
https://www.amazon.com/Fly-Prosecution-Insect-Evidence-Crimes/dp/0674007271
2000
Madison Lee Goff was born on the 19th of January, 1944 in Glendale, California, United States, the son of Madison L. and Margaret J. Dyson Goff.
M. Lee Goff studied at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Zoology in 1966 and in 1977, he obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Entomology. He also attended California State University Long Beach, where he earned a Master of Science degree in Biology in 1974.
M. Lee Goff began his career as a research assistant in the Diptera section at B. P. Bishop Museum in Honolulu, where he worked from 1964 to 1966. For two years he served in the United States Army. In 1968, he returned to B. P. Bishop Museum, where he was a research assistant in acarology section until 1971. From 1977 to 1983, he worked as an acarologist there. In 1994-97, he held the post of a research associate in entomology.
In 1971, Lee joined Hawaii Volcanoes National Park as a site manager for the international biological program field station. From 1971 to 1974, he served as a teaching assistant and research assistant at California State University Long Beach. In 1974, he also was a clinical laboratory assistant for Kaiser Hospital (now Kaiser Permanente South Bay Medical Center) in Harbor City.
In 1974, M. Lee Goff accepted the post of a teaching assistant at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in Honolulu, where he served until 1977. That year, Lee Goff was a curator for national chigger collection at the National Museum of Natural History/Smithsonian Institution. From 1983 to 2001, he was a professor of entomology there. He taught six different graduate and undergraduate courses in entomology: general entomology, systematic entomology, forensic entomology, acarology, immature insects, and medical and veterinary entomology. In 1993, Lee received the position of a curator at the Entomology Museum at Mānoa. In 1994-98, he also was its chair of the entomology graduate field.
M. Lee Goff joined the staff of the Chaminade University of Honolulu as a professor of Forensic Sciences in 2001. Presently, he is a Professor Emeritus of forensic sciences at Chaminade University.
M. Lee Goff conducted training workshops and lectured in many different parts of the United States and other countries, including Brazil, Spain, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, and China. Additionally, he has served as a member of the instructional staff for the FBI Academy course in Detection and Recovery of Human Remains taught at Quantico, Virginia.
M. Lee Goff is also a consultant in forensic entomology for the Office of the Medical Examiner, City and County of Honolulu and other state and federal agencies throughout the world. He also serves as a consultant for the crime dramas CSI and Bones. He is a curator of a traveling museum exhibition called CSI: Crime Scene Insects.
As the author, M. Lee Goff wrote A Fly for the Prosecution: How Insect Evidence Helps Solve Crimes in 2000 and has been a contributor to other books. He has also published nearly two hundred papers in refereed journals.
(The forensic entomologist turns a dispassionate, analytic...)
2000M. Lee Goff is a member of a number of organizations, among them Acarological Society of America, American Academy of Forensic Sciences, American Board of Forensic Entomology, Entomological Society of America, Natural Area Reserves System Commission, American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Discipline Assessment Task Force, Bulletin of the Society of Vector Ecologists, Mid-Pacific Association of Forensic Scientists, National Association of Medical Examiners, and honorary member of Sociedad Española de Medicina Legal y Forense.
Acarological Society of America , United States
1982 - 1985
Acarological Society of America , United States
1997 - 2001
Acarological Society of America , United States
1991
American Academy of Forensic Sciences , United States
1993
American Academy of Forensic Sciences , United States
1995 - 1996
American Academy of Forensic Sciences , United States
1996 - 1997
American Board of Forensic Entomology , United States
1996 - 1999
American Board of Forensic Entomology , United States
2002 - 2013
Mid-Pacific Association of Forensic Scientists , United States
1991 - 1996
M. Lee Goff is married to Dianne. They have two children, Dana Mediros and Alaina.