Joe Roman

{{short description|American biologist}}

{{Similar names|Jose Roman (disambiguation)}}

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Joe Roman is a conservation biologist, marine ecologist, and author of the books Whale, Listed: Dispatches from America's Endangered Species Act, and Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World. His conservation research includes studies of the historical population size of whales,{{cite journal|title = Whales before whaling in the North Atlantic|first1 = Joe|last1 = Roman|first2 = Stephen R.|last2 = Palumbi|authorlink2 = Stephen Palumbi|journal = Science|url = https://mcbi.marine-conservation.org/publications/pub_pdfs/Roman_Palumbi_2003.pdf|volume = 301|issue = 5632|year = 2003|pages = 508–510|doi = 10.1126/science.1084524|pmid = 12881568|bibcode = 2003Sci...301..508R|citeseerx = 10.1.1.1025.5800|s2cid = 22656335}} the role of cetaceans in the nitrogen cycle,{{cite journal|title = The Whale Pump: Marine Mammals Enhance Primary Productivity in a Coastal Basin|first1 = Joe|last1 = Roman|first2 = James J.|last2 = McCarthy|authorlink2 = James McCarthy (oceanographer)|year = 2010|doi = 10.1371/journal.pone.0013255|doi-access = free|journal = PLoS ONE|volume = 5|issue = 10|page = e13255|pmid = 20949007|pmc = 2952594|bibcode = 2010PLoSO...513255R}} the relationship between biodiversity and disease, and the genetics of invasions.{{cite journal|journal = Trends in Ecology and Evolution|title = Paradox Lost: Genetic Diversity and the Success of Aquatic Invasions|year = 2007|volume = 22|issue = 9|pages = 454–464|first1 = Joe|last1 = Roman|first2 = John A.|last2 = Darling|pmid = 17673331|doi = 10.1016/j.tree.2007.07.002}} He is the founding editor of "Eat the Invaders", a website dedicated to controlling invasive species by eating them.Mishan, Ligaya, “[https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/02/t-magazine/eating-invasive-species.html When Invasive Species Become the Meal],” New York Times, October 2, 2020.

Roman is a Fellow at the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont.{{cite web|url = http://www.uvm.edu/giee/?Page=roman.html|title = Joe Roman – Fellow|publisher = Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, The University of Vermont|year = 2017|accessdate = July 15, 2017}} He earned an AB with Honors in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard University in 1985{{cite web|title = Harvard University library record: Notes to accompany Sun drift|url = http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/003054292/catalog|year = 1985|publisher = Harvard University Library|accessdate = July 15, 2017}} and an MA in wildlife ecology and conservation from the University of Florida. 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.{{cite web|title = Harvard University library record: Tracking anthropogenic change in the North Atlantic Ocean with genetic tools|url = http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/009858754/catalog|year = 2003|publisher = Harvard University Library|accessdate = July 15, 2017}} 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. 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 looking at loss of biodiversity.{{cite journal|title = Biodiversity loss affects global disease ecology|first1 = Montira J.|last1 = Pongsiri|first2 = Joe|last2 = Roman|first3 = Vanessa O.|last3 = Ezenwa|first4 = Tony L.|last4 = Goldberg|first5 = Hillel S.|last5 = Koren|first6 = Stephen C.|last6 = Newbold|first7 = Richard S.|last7 = Ostfeld|first8 = Subhrendu K.|last8 = Pattanayak|first9 = Daniel J.|last9 = Salkeld|journal = BioScience|year = 2009|volume = 59|issue = 11|pages = 945–954|doi = 10.1525/bio.2009.59.11.6|doi-access = free|url = https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article-pdf/59/11/945/696758/59-11-945.pdf}} He had a Fulbright Fellowship at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina in Brazil in 2012, and he was the 2014–15{{cite web|url = https://oeb.harvard.edu/news/joe-roman-awarded-2014-2015-hrdy-visiting-fellowship|title = Joe Roman Awarded 2014-2015 Hrdy Visiting Fellowship|date = July 29, 2014|accessdate = July 15, 2017|website = oeb.harvard.edu (Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology)|publisher = Harvard University}} Sarah and Daniel Hrdy Visiting Fellow in Conservation Biology at Harvard.{{cite web|url = https://oeb.harvard.edu/hrdy-current|title = The Sarah and Daniel Hrdy Visiting Fellowship in Conservation Biology at Harvard University|year = 2017|accessdate = July 15, 2017|website = oeb.harvard.edu (Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology)|publisher = Harvard University}} Born in Queens, New York, Roman lives in Vermont.