Joe Roman is a
conservation biologist, academic, and author of the books ''Whale''
and ''
Listed: Dispatches from America's Endangered Species Act''.
His
conservation research includes studies of the historical population size of
whales,
the role of cetaceans in the
nitrogen cycle, the relationship between biodiversity and disease, and the genetics of invasions. He is the founding editor of "Eat the Invaders", a website dedicated to controlling invasive species by eating them.
Roman is a research associate professor in the
Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources
The Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources (RSENR) (established in 2003) is the University of Vermont's natural resources college. The University of Vermont recognized the importance of providing educational opportunities in this fi ...
and a Fellow at the
Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at the
University of Vermont
The University of Vermont (UVM), officially the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, is a public land-grant research university in Burlington, Vermont. It was founded in 1791 and is among the oldest universities in the United ...
.
He earned an
AB with Honors in Visual and Environmental Studies from
Harvard University
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in 1985 and an
MA in
wildlife ecology and conservation from the
University of Florida
The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida, traces its origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its ...
.
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''.
During his PhD, he co-authored, with
Stephen Palumbi, a paper for the journal ''
Science
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Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earli ...
'' that presented evidence that whale populations had been considerably larger prior to whaling than had previously been thought.
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,
and also beginning a collaboration with the
United States Environmental Protection Agency
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looking at
loss of biodiversity
Biodiversity loss includes the worldwide extinction of different species, as well as the local reduction or loss of species in a certain habitat, resulting in a loss of biological diversity. The latter phenomenon can be temporary or permanent, de ...
. He had a Fulbright Fellowship at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina in Brazil in 2012, and he was the 2014–15
Sarah and Daniel Hrdy Visiting Fellow in Conservation Biology at Harvard. Born in
Queens
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, New York, Roman lives in
Vermont
Vermont () is a state in the northeast New England region of the United States. Vermont is bordered by the states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, and New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to ...
.
Books
*
Listed: Dispatches from America's Endangered Species Act (2011, Harvard University Press)
* Whale (2006, Reaktion Books)
His book ''Listed'' won the 2012
Rachel Carson
Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist, writer, and conservationist whose influential book '' Silent Spring'' (1962) and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental ...
Environment Book Award from the
Society of Environmental Journalists
The Society of Environmental Journalists is a non-profit national journalism organization created by and for journalists who report environmental topics in the news media. On its website, the organization says that "SEJ’s mission is to strength ...
.
Journal articles
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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
External links
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Eat the InvadersResearchGate
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Living people
Conservation biologists
Harvard University alumni
University of Florida alumni
University of Vermont faculty
American male writers
American scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)