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.
[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.
[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.