[3] Goodale was a student of John D. Aber, an ecologist and Professor of Natural Resources & the Environment at the University of New Hampshire, during her doctoral research.
[5] Following the completion of her doctoral studies at the University of New Hampshire in 1999, Christine Goodale held her first position as a postdoctoral fellow at the Carnegie Institute of Washington in the Plant Science program located in Stanford, California.
[1] She has experience in a wide variety of scientific topics, including acid rain, carbon sequestration, climate change, forest ecosystems, nitrogen cycling and retention, and watershed processes.
[8] Goodale and her team examine these impacts across multiple spatial and temporal levels, from plots in a watershed to whole continents, utilizing a combination of field studies, ecosystem modeling, and acquired regional data sets to help answer their main research questions.
[12] Goodale has been selected to work on multiple advising panels and working groups over the past two decades including the Union of Concerned Scientists,[13] The Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study[14] funded by the National Science Foundation, and the National Ecological Observation Network (NEON) Science, Technology, and Education Advisory Committee (STEAC).