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, marine ecologist, and author of the books Whale, [1] Listed: Dispatches from America's Endangered Species Act , [2] and Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World. 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]

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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

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

Journal articles

References

  1. 1 2 Roman, Joe (2006). Whale. Reaktion Books. ISBN   9781861895059.
  2. 1 2 Roman, Joe (2011). Listed: Dispatches from America's Endangered Species Act. Harvard University Press. ISBN   9780674061279.
  3. 1 2 Roman, Joe; Palumbi, Stephen R. (2003). "Whales before whaling in the North Atlantic" (PDF). Science . 301 (5632): 508–510. Bibcode:2003Sci...301..508R. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.1025.5800 . doi:10.1126/science.1084524. PMID   12881568. S2CID   22656335.
  4. ↑ Roman, Joe; McCarthy, James J. (2010). "The Whale Pump: Marine Mammals Enhance Primary Productivity in a Coastal Basin". PLoS ONE . 5 (10): e13255. Bibcode:2010PLoSO...513255R. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013255 . PMC   2952594 . PMID   20949007.
  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. 1 2 3 "Joe Roman – Fellow". Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, The University of Vermont. 2017. Retrieved July 15, 2017.
  8. ↑ "Harvard University library record: Notes to accompany Sun drift". Harvard University Library. 1985. Retrieved July 15, 2017.
  9. 1 2 "Harvard University library record: Tracking anthropogenic change in the North Atlantic Ocean with genetic tools". Harvard University Library. 2003. 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.; Salkeld, Daniel J. (2009). "Biodiversity loss affects global disease ecology" (PDF). BioScience . 59 (11): 945–954. doi: 10.1525/bio.2009.59.11.6 .
  11. ↑ "Joe Roman Awarded 2014-2015 Hrdy Visiting Fellowship". oeb.harvard.edu (Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology). Harvard University. July 29, 2014. Retrieved July 15, 2017.
  12. ↑ "The Sarah and Daniel Hrdy Visiting Fellowship in Conservation Biology at Harvard University". oeb.harvard.edu (Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology). Harvard University. 2017. 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. Archived from the original on August 24, 2017. Retrieved July 15, 2017.
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