Joe Roman Gund Institute visiting Scholar Relationship with MIMES: Participant and collaborator in the Marine group, workgroup 8 (Case Studies and Calibration Sites) and 9 (Broader Participation and Public Interface) Contact: 617 Main Street, Burlington VT, 05446 Phone: 802-656-2906

Dr. Joe Roman comes to the Gund Institute as an Environmental Policy Fellow with the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Roman is a conservation biologist with research interests in biodiversity and ecosystem services, biological invasions, and marine population genetics and ecology. During his AAAS fellowship, he helped start an interdisciplinary program on Biodiversity and Human Health at the US Environmental Protection Agency. [Juan: can we put a link here to http://es.epa.gov/ncer/biodiversity/] He is also a research associate at the New England Aquarium.

Dr. Roman received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2003 in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. He has a Masters degree in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation from the University of Florida.

His most recent book is the cultural history Whale. He is currently working on The Panther's New Genes, a book about endangered species conservation. More information about Joe can be found at joeroman.com.