Fred Goldberg

Biographical Information

• Fred Goldberg was born 26th of August 1942 in Oslo, Norway.
• 1963 Graduated from high school in Stockholm, Sweden
• 1963-1064 Military' service in the Royal Swedish Navy as radio operator
• 1964-1969 Studied mechanical engineering at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm Graduated with a diploma project in welding technology "The source of increased carbon in gas cut steel surfaces and its effect on construction steels"
• 1965 Training as a helicopter mechanic at the 1st Helicopter Division in the Navy
• 1966 Pilots license for Piper Cherokee and Super Cub
• 1966 Participated as a mechanical assistant on the Stockholm University Svalbard Expedition.
  The work included manual drilling of ice cores and taking up lake bottom sediments. I was for the first time coming into contact with climate related science and worked with scientists who later became active in climate research.
• 1969 Employed as a research assistant at the welding technology department at the Royal Institute of Technology.
• 1975 Received a doctors degree in welding technology specializing in thermal cutting.
• 1975 Received a adjunct professorship title (in Swedish decent)
• 1975 Started working full time as an self employed consultant, developing new projects in the area of gas cutting, plasma cutting, laser systems and gas safety.
• 1995 developed the electronic driving license and received the European Commission IT-prize and the MHF gold medal for traffic safety.
• 2004 started to get interested in the climate debate and greenhouse effect.
• 2005 was asked by the President of the Royal Institute of Technology to be Secretary General and organize an international climate seminar to scrutinize the latest research in the climate area. The seminar took place on the 11 -12th of September 2006. During the last two years FG has studied the climate issues and built up a network with leading climate scientists around the world and written a series of magazine articles.

Fred Goldberg has all of his life been interested in polar history research and therefore traveled extensively in the polar regions, North and South. He has made many nature films shown on national TV and made historical documentary films about Roald Amundsen and his Polar flights, the airship Italia disaster and coal mining on Svalbard just to mention a few.

Fred Goldberg is married and has a son and a daughter and two grandchildren. His hobbies are Polar philately, skiing, boating and golf.