Joe Roman

Visiting Research Fellow
Research Associate Professor, Rubenstein School for the Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont
jroman@uvm.edu
www.joeroman.com

Education

BA, Harvard College; MS, University of Florida; PhD, Harvard University

Biography

Joe Roman is a conservation biologist and researcher at the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont. His research focuses on endangered species conservation, invasive species biology, and marine ecology; his research has appeared in Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, and many other journals. Joe has received a Hrdy Fellowship at Harvard University, a McCurdy Fellowship at the Duke University Marine Lab, and a Fulbright Fellowship in Brazil.

Joe is author of Listed: Dispatches from America’s Endangered Species Act, winner of the 2012 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award. Editor ’n’ chef of eattheinvaders.org, Joe has written for Audubon, New Scientist, The 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. Born and raised in New York, Joe considers King Kong as an early conservation influence.