Joe Roman

For other people with similar names, see Jose Roman (disambiguation).

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]

Joe Roman
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Harvard University University of Florida
Scientific career
Fields	Conservation biology
Institutions	University of Vermont

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 (2023). "Surtsey at 60". Science. 382: 1004. doi:10.1126/science.adl6569.
• Roman, Joe; Kraska, James (2016). "Reboot Gitmo for U.S.–Cuba research diplomacy" (PDF). Science. 351 (6279): 1258–1260. Bibcode:2016Sci...351.1258R. doi:10.1126/science.aad4247. PMID 26989232. S2CID 206643277.
• Roman, J.; Altman, I.; Dunphy-Daly, M.; Campbell, C.; Jasny, M.; Read, A. (2013). "The Marine Mammal Protection Act at 40: Status, recovery, and future of U.S. marine mammals". Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1286: 29–49. doi:10.1111/nyas.12040.
• 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. S2CID 86012925.
• 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. S2CID 300812.
• 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. PMC 1564072. 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" (PDF). Conservation Biology. 13 (1): 135–142. doi:10.1046/j.1523-1739.1999.98007.x. S2CID 53445937.

Popular articles

• “America’s New Whale Is Now at Extinction’s Doorstep.” The New York Times, March 6, 2021.
• “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.