Biography:Joe Roman

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Joe Roman
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHarvard University
University of Florida
Scientific career
FieldsConservation biology
InstitutionsUniversity of Vermont

Joe Roman is a conservation biologist, academic, and author of the books Whale[1] and Listed: Dispatches from America's Endangered Species Act.[2] His conservation research includes studies of the historical population size of whales,[3] the role of cetaceans in the nitrogen cycle,[4] the relationship between biodiversity and disease, and the genetics of invasions.[5] He is the founding editor of "Eat the Invaders", a website dedicated to controlling invasive species by eating them.[6]

Roman is a Fellow at the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont.[7] He earned an AB with Honors in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard University in 1985[8] and an MA in wildlife ecology and conservation from the University of Florida.[7] Roman was awarded his PhD from Harvard's Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology in 2003; his dissertation was titled Tracking Anthropogenic Change in the North Atlantic Ocean with Genetic Tools.[9] During his PhD, he co-authored, with Stephen Palumbi, a paper for the journal Science that presented evidence that whale populations had been considerably larger prior to whaling than had previously been thought.[3][9] By 2009, he was working with the Gund Institute with a Science and Technology Policy Fellowship from the American Association for the Advancement of Science,[7] and also beginning a collaboration with the United States Environmental Protection Agency looking at loss of biodiversity.[10] He had a Fulbright Fellowship at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina in Brazil in 2012, and he was the 2014–15[11] Sarah and Daniel Hrdy Visiting Fellow in Conservation Biology at Harvard.[12] Born in Queens, New York, Roman lives in Vermont.

Books

  • Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World (2023, Little, Brown Spark)[13]
  • Listed: Dispatches from America's Endangered Species Act (2011, Harvard University Press)[2]
  • Whale (2006, Reaktion Books)[1]

His book Listed won the 2012 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award from the Society of Environmental Journalists.[14]

Journal articles

Popular articles

  • “Vulnerable Species in the Crosshairs,” with Ya-Wei Li, The New York Times, July 26, 2018.
  • “Can the Plover Save New York?” Slate, August 23, 2013.
  • “Sharks Help Maintain Health of the Oceans,” Wall Street Journal, September 20, 2005.
  • "Where Bright Lights and Night Life Are Nature's Doing." The Sunday New York Times, March 6, 2005.
  • "A Place Where All the Snowflakes Are Still Different." The New York Times, January 2, 2004.

References

  1. Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 Roman, Joe (2006). Whale. Reaktion Books. ISBN 9781861895059. 
  2. Jump up to: 2.0 2.1 Roman, Joe (2011). Listed: Dispatches from America's Endangered Species Act. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674061279. 
  3. Jump up to: 3.0 3.1 Roman, Joe; Palumbi, Stephen R. (2003). "Whales before whaling in the North Atlantic". Science 301 (5632): 508–510. doi:10.1126/science.1084524. PMID 12881568. Bibcode2003Sci...301..508R. https://mcbi.marine-conservation.org/publications/pub_pdfs/Roman_Palumbi_2003.pdf. 
  4. Roman, Joe; McCarthy, James J. (2010). "The Whale Pump: Marine Mammals Enhance Primary Productivity in a Coastal Basin". PLoS ONE 5 (10): e13255. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0013255. PMID 20949007. Bibcode2010PLoSO...513255R. 
  5. Roman, Joe; Darling, John A. (2007). "Paradox Lost: Genetic Diversity and the Success of Aquatic Invasions". Trends in Ecology and Evolution 22 (9): 454–464. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2007.07.002. PMID 17673331. 
  6. Mishan, Ligaya, “When Invasive Species Become the Meal,” New York Times, October 2, 2020.
  7. Jump up to: 7.0 7.1 7.2 "Joe Roman – Fellow". Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, The University of Vermont. 2017. http://www.uvm.edu/giee/?Page=roman.html. Retrieved July 15, 2017. 
  8. "Harvard University library record: Notes to accompany Sun drift". Harvard University Library. 1985. http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/003054292/catalog. Retrieved July 15, 2017. 
  9. Jump up to: 9.0 9.1 "Harvard University library record: Tracking anthropogenic change in the North Atlantic Ocean with genetic tools". Harvard University Library. 2003. http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/009858754/catalog. Retrieved July 15, 2017. 
  10. Pongsiri, Montira J.; Roman, Joe; Ezenwa, Vanessa O.; Goldberg, Tony L.; Koren, Hillel S.; Newbold, Stephen C.; Ostfeld, Richard S.; Pattanayak, Subhrendu K. et al. (2009). "Biodiversity loss affects global disease ecology". BioScience 59 (11): 945–954. doi:10.1525/bio.2009.59.11.6. https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article-pdf/59/11/945/696758/59-11-945.pdf. 
  11. "Joe Roman Awarded 2014-2015 Hrdy Visiting Fellowship". Harvard University. July 29, 2014. https://oeb.harvard.edu/news/joe-roman-awarded-2014-2015-hrdy-visiting-fellowship. Retrieved July 15, 2017. 
  12. "The Sarah and Daniel Hrdy Visiting Fellowship in Conservation Biology at Harvard University". Harvard University. 2017. https://oeb.harvard.edu/hrdy-current. Retrieved July 15, 2017. 
  13. Roman, Joe (2023). Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World. Little, Brown Spark. ISBN 9781805221692. 
  14. "Winners: SEJ 11th Annual Awards for Reporting on the Environment". Society of Environmental Journalists. October 17, 2012. http://www.sej.org/initiatives/winners-sej-11th-annual-awards-reporting-environment#RachelCarsonBook. Retrieved July 15, 2017. 

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