Biography:Callum Roberts (biologist)
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| Alma mater | University of York |
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| Institutions | University of Exeter |
| Thesis | Aspects of coral reef fish community structure in the Saudi Arabian Red Sea and on the Great Barrier Reef (1986) |
Callum Michael Roberts is a British marine conservation biologist, oceanographer, science communicator, author and research scholar at the University of Exeter.[1] He was formerly at the University of York.[2] He is best known for his research and advocacy related to marine reserves and the environmental impact of fishing.
Career
Roberts' work examines the impact of human activity on marine ecosystems, particularly coral reefs. His research output has examined the benefits of marine reserves and no-fishing zones on sustainable fisheries and biodiversity.[3][4][5][6] He began his career studying reefs of the Red Sea in Saudi Arabia, and has also worked in the Maldives and on the Great Barrier Reef.[7]
Roberts is also an active supporter of the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition. He is the Chief Scientific Advisor to Blue Marine Foundation[1] and an Ambassador for World Wide Fund for Nature.[8]
Since 2011 Roberts has written occasional opinion editorials for The Guardian [9] on various marine conservation topics, including overfishing.[10] He has also appeared in the documentary films The End of the Line (2009) and Seaspiracy (2021)[11] and was chief scientific adviser to the BBC's 2017 documentary series Blue Planet II.[1][8]
He is the author of two award-winning books, The Unnatural History of the Sea (Rachel Carson Award, 2007), which examined the impact of human activity and fishing on marine ecosystems over the last thousand years,[12][13] and Ocean of Life (Mountbatten Award, 2013), which covers more recent changes in the ocean and proposes reforms to facilitate their recovery.[14][15] His latest book is Reef Life: An Underwater Memoir (2019).[1][7]
Other work
1999-2003. Member of editorial board of Conservation Biology, published by the Society for Conservation Biology.
1997-2000. Member of Editorial board of journal Animal Conservation, published by Cambridge University Press.
1996. Senior editor of the proceedings of a symposium: "Marine reserves: Function and Design" held at the 8th International Coral Reef Symposium, Panama.
1991-1996. Co-editor of Reef Encounter, Newsletter of the International Society for Reef Studies.
Bibliography
- The Unnatural History of the Sea. Island Press, 2007. ISBN:9781597261029
- The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea. Viking Press, 2012; Penguin, 2013. ISBN:9780670023547
- Reef Life: An Underwater Memoir. Profile Books; Profile Books, 2019. ISBN:9781788162159
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Profile | Biosciences | University of Exeter". https://biosciences.exeter.ac.uk/staff/profile/index.php?web_id=Callum_Roberts.
- ↑ "Callum Roberts". The University of York. http://www.york.ac.uk/environment/our-staff/callum-roberts/.
- ↑ "Benefits beyond boundaries: the fishery effects of marine reserves" (in en). Trends in Ecology & Evolution 18 (9): 448–455. 1 September 2003. doi:10.1016/S0169-5347(03)00189-7. ISSN 0169-5347.
- ↑ "Marine biodiversity hotspots and conservation priorities for tropical reefs". Science 295 (5558): 1280–4. February 2002. doi:10.1126/science.1067728. PMID 11847338. Bibcode: 2002Sci...295.1280R.
- ↑ "Ecological Criteria for Evaluating Candidate Sites for Marine Reserves" (in en). Ecological Applications 13 (sp1): 199–214. 2003. doi:10.1890/1051-0761(2003)013[0199:ECFECS2.0.CO;2]. ISSN 1939-5582.
- ↑ "The role of marine reserves in achieving sustainable fisheries". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 360 (1453): 123–32. January 2005. doi:10.1098/rstb.2004.1578. PMID 15713592.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Reef Life by Callum Roberts review – miraculous and threatened" (in en). 16 November 2019. http://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/16/reef-life-underwater-memoir-callum-roberts-review.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Professor Callum Roberts" (in en). https://www.wwf.org.uk/council-of-ambassadors/professor-callum-roberts.
- ↑ "Callum Roberts". https://www.theguardian.com/profile/callum-roberts.
- ↑ "We knew fish catches were too high. But it's much worse than we thought" (in en-GB). The Guardian. 21 January 2016. ISSN 0261-3077. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/21/fish-stocks-low-worse-official-figures.
- ↑ "Seaspiracy: Netflix documentary accused of misrepresentation by participants" (in en). 31 March 2021. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/31/seaspiracy-netflix-documentary-accused-of-misrepresentation-by-participants.
- ↑ (in en) The Unnatural History of the Sea. Island Press. ISBN 978-1-59726-102-9. https://islandpress.org/books/unnatural-history-sea. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
- ↑ "‘‘There were walls of fish, so many you could hardly see the corals" (in en-gb). https://www.rsb.org.uk//biologist-features/2019-05-23-14-15-55.
- ↑ "Ocean of Life: How our Seas are Changing, by Callum Roberts – review" (in en). 18 November 2013. http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/nov/18/ocean-of-life-how-our-seas-are-changing-review.
- ↑ "Callum Roberts' Ocean of Life is a manifesto for marine management | Leo Hickman" (in en). 7 June 2012. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2012/jun/07/callum-roberts-ocean-of-life.
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