biology

Joe Roman

Joe Roman is a biology topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Joe Roman rather than just read about it. In short: Joe Roman is a conservation biologist, marine ecologist, and author of the books Whale, Listed: Dispatches from America's Endangered Species Act, and Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World. His conservation research includes studies of the historical population size of whales, the role of cetaceans in the nitrogen cycle, the relationship between biodiversity and disease, and the genetics of invasions.

Key takeaways

Joe Roman belongs to biology; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Joe Roman to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Joe Roman from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Joe Roman is a conservation biologist, marine ecologist, and author of the books Whale, Listed: Dispatches from America's Endangered Species Act, and Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World. His conservation research includes studies of the historical population size of whales, the role of cetaceans in the nitrogen cycle, the relationship between biodiversity and disease, and the genetics of invasions. He is the founding editor of "Eat the Invaders", a website dedicated to controlling invasive species by eating them. Roman is a Fellow at the Gund Institute for Environment at the University of Vermont. He earned an AB with Honors in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard University in 1985 and an MA in wildlife ecology and conservation from the University of Florida. 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. During his PhD, he co-authored, with Stephen Palumbi, a paper for the journal Science that presented evidence that whale populations had been considerably larger prior to whaling than had previously been thought. 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, and also beginning a collaboration with the United States Environmental Protection Agency looking at loss of biodiversity. He had a Fulbright Fellowship at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina in Brazil in 2012, and he was the 2014–15 Sarah and Daniel Hrdy Visiting Fellow in Conservation Biology at Harvard. Born in Queens, New York, Roman lives in Vermont.

Books Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World (2023, Little, Brown Spark) Listed: Dispatches from America's Endangered Species Act (2011, Harvard University Press) Whale (2006, Reaktion Books) His book Listed won the 2012 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award from the Society of Environmental Journalists.

Journal articles Roman, Joe (2023). "Surtsey at 60". Science. 382: 1004. doi:10.1126/science.adl6569. Roman, Joe; Kraska, James (2016). "Reboot Gitmo for U.S.–Cuba research diplomacy" (PDF). Science. 351 (6279): 1258–1260. Bibcode:2016Sci...351.1258R. doi:10.1126/science.aad4247. PMID 26989232. S2CID 206643277. Roman, J.; Altman, I.; Dunphy-Daly, M.; Campbell, C.; Jasny, M.; Read, A. (2013). "The Marine Mammal Protection Act at 40: Status, recovery, and future of U.S. marine mammals". Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1286: 29–49. doi:10.1111/nyas.12040. Blakeslee, A. M. H.; McKenzie, C. H.; Darling, J. A.; Byers, J. E.; Pringle, J. M.; Roman, J. (2010). "A hitchhiker's guide to the Maritimes: Anthropogenic transport facilitates long-distance dispersal of an invasive marine crab to Newfoundland". Diversity and Distributions. 16 (6): 879–891. doi:10.1111/j.1472-4642.2010.00703.x. S2CID 86012925. Echelle, A. A.; Hackler, J. C.; Lack, J. B.; Ballard, S. R.; Roman, J.; Fox, S. F.; Leslie, D. M.; Van Den Bussche, R. A. (2010). "Conservation genetics of the alligator snapping turtle: cytonuclear evidence of range-wide bottleneck effects and unusually pronounced geographic structure". Conservation Genetics. 11 (4): 1375–1387. doi:10.1007/s10592-009-9966-1. S2CID 300812. Roman, Joe; Darling, John A. (2007). "Paradox Lost: Genetic Diversity and the Success of Aquatic Invasions". Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 22 (9): 454–464. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2007.07.002. PMID 17673331. Rocha, L. A.; Robertson, D. R.; Roman, J.; Bowen, B. W. (2005). "Ecological speciation in tropical reef fishes". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 272 (1563): 573–579. doi:10.1098/2004.3005. PMC 1564072. PMID 15817431. Roman, Joseph; Santhuff, Steven D.; Moler, Paul E.; Bowen, Brian W. (1999). "Population structure and cryptic evolutionary units in the alligator snapping turtle" (PDF). Conservation Biology. 13 (1): 135–142. doi:10.1046/j.1523-1739.1999.98007.x. S2CID 53445937.

Popular articles "America's New Whale Is Now at Extinction's Doorstep." The New York Times, March 6, 2021. "Vulnerable Species in the Crosshairs," with Ya-Wei Li, The New York Times, July 26, 2018. "Can the Plover Save New York?" Slate, August 23, 2013. "Sharks Help Maintain Health of the Oceans," Wall Street Journal, September 20, 2005. "Where Bright Lights and Night Life Are Nature's Doing." The Sunday New York Times, March 6, 2005. "A Place Where All the Snowflakes Are Still Different." The New York Times, January 2, 2004.

References

External links Official website Eat the Invaders

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Joe Roman

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Joe Roman claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In biology, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Joe Roman before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Joe Roman ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Joe Roman

In research: Joe Roman appears in biology research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Joe Roman in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Joe Roman is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics American biologist stubs, American conservation biologists, American male writers, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Joe Roman outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Joe Roman in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Joe Roman means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Joe Roman out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Joe Roman in simple terms?

Why does Joe Roman matter?

Because it connects several biology ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Joe Roman?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Joe Roman.