Stephen Palumbi

Stephen R. Palumbi (born October 17, 1956)[1] is the Jane and Marshall Steel Jr.

[1] In 1996, Palumbi was awarded a Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation, which he used "to develop more rapid, cost-efficient, nonradioactive genetic test procedures to identify threatened species of cetaceans found in products taken from whale meat markets ... allow[ing] the focus of management efforts to be the individual, rather than the species or stock, and enables the tracing of particular whales from fishery to market.

[8][9] Palumbi's research interests include studying evolution and change using molecular genetics techniques, marine population biology and conservation, and the effects of human activity on ocean systems.

In 2003, Palumbi participated in the documentary TV series The Future Is Wild,[2] appearing in his capacity as Harvard University Professor of Marine Sciences in the initial episode, Welcome to the Future, as well as in four other episodes where he was also credited as a principal scientific advisor: Waterland, Flooded World, The Endless Desert, and The Global Ocean.

His interests include music, and was part of the group who founded the band Sustainable Sole.