Biography:Joe Roman
Joe Roman | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Harvard University University of Florida |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Conservation biology |
| Institutions | University 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
- Roman, Joe; Kraska, James (2016). "Reboot Gitmo for U.S.–Cuba research diplomacy". Science 351 (6279): 1258–1260. doi:10.1126/science.aad4247. PMID 26989232. Bibcode: 2016Sci...351.1258R. http://www.joeroman.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/1258.full_.pdf.
- Blakeslee, A. M. H.; McKenzie, C. H.; Darling, J. A.; Byers, J. E.; Pringle, J. M.; Roman, J. (2010). "A hitchhiker's guide to the Maritimes: Anthropogenic transport facilitates long-distance dispersal of an invasive marine crab to Newfoundland". Diversity and Distributions 16 (6): 879–891. doi:10.1111/j.1472-4642.2010.00703.x. https://cfpub.epa.gov/si/si_public_file_download.cfm?p_download_id=500364.
- Echelle, A. A.; Hackler, J. C.; Lack, J. B.; Ballard, S. R.; Roman, J.; Fox, S. F.; Leslie, D. M.; Van Den Bussche, R. A. (2010). "Conservation genetics of the alligator snapping turtle: cytonuclear evidence of range-wide bottleneck effects and unusually pronounced geographic structure". Conservation Genetics 11 (4): 1375–1387. doi:10.1007/s10592-009-9966-1.
- 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.
- Rocha, L. A.; Robertson, D. R.; Roman, J.; Bowen, B. W. (2005). "Ecological speciation in tropical reef fishes". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 272 (1563): 573–579. doi:10.1098/2004.3005. PMID 15817431.
- Roman, Joseph; Santhuff, Steven D.; Moler, Paul E.; Bowen, Brian W. (1999). "Population structure and cryptic evolutionary units in the alligator snapping turtle". Conservation Biology 13 (1): 135–142. doi:10.1046/j.1523-1739.1999.98007.x. http://www.joeroman.com/images/roman.etal.alligatorsnapper.99.pdf.
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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roman, Joe (2006). Whale. Reaktion Books. ISBN 9781861895059.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Roman, Joe (2011). Listed: Dispatches from America's Endangered Species Act. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674061279.
- ↑ 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. Bibcode: 2003Sci...301..508R. https://mcbi.marine-conservation.org/publications/pub_pdfs/Roman_Palumbi_2003.pdf.
- ↑ 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. Bibcode: 2010PLoSO...513255R.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Mishan, Ligaya, “When Invasive Species Become the Meal,” New York Times, October 2, 2020.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ 9.0 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ Roman, Joe (2023). Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World. Little, Brown Spark. ISBN 9781805221692.
- ↑ "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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