BIO

Joe Roman is a conservation biologist and author at the Gund Institute for Environment at the University of Vermont. His research, focusing on endangered species conservation and marine ecology, has appeared in Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, and many other journals. Joe has received a Fulbright Fellowship in Brazil, a Hrdy Visiting Fellowship at Harvard University, a McCurdy Fellowship at the Duke University Marine Lab, a Fulbright-NSF Arctic Research Scholarship at the University of Iceland, a Bellagio Residency, and a Science and Technology Policy Fellowship from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, among other awards. He was a Radcliffe fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute from 2022 to 2023.

Roman has presented his work in the U.S. Congress, South by Southwest, the International Monetary Fund, and universities around the world. Coverage of his research has appeared in the New York Times, New Yorker, Washington Post, Atlantic, NPR, BBC, and many other outlets.

Joe Roman is editor ’n’ chef of eattheinvaders.org, a website dedicated to fighting invasive species one bite at a time. He is also the author of Listed: Dispatches from America’s Endangered Species Act, winner of the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award, and Whale. He has written for Audubon, New Scientist, New York Times, Slate, and other publications.

He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2003 in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and his Master’s degree in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation from the University of Florida. He has worked along the coasts of Alaska, New England, the Canadian Maritimes, Brazil, Cuba, and Iceland. Born and raised in New York, Joe considers King Kong as an early conservation influence.

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Joe Roman: romanjoe@gmail.com

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