Bio

Bun Lai of Miya’s Sushi and Joe Roman forage for invasive species on Long Island Sound (A. Hetherington)

Joe Roman is a conservation biologist and researcher 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 Science, 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, and a Science and Technology Policy Fellowship from the American Association for the Advancement of Science among other awards.

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. He 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.