 In 1989 he won the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement for his work on marine pollution, and the Roger Revelle Award of the San Diego Oceans Foundation.In 1999, the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography gave Goldberg the first Ruth Patrick Award for Environmental Problem Solving in the Aquatic Sciences.Goldberg was also a Fellow of the Meteoritical Society and a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the United States National Academy of Sciences.