Stephen Palumbi
Stephen ("Steve") R. Palumbi is the present Harold A. Miller Professor[1][2] and the Jane and Marshall Steel Jr. Professor in Marine Sciences, as well as the Director of the Hopkins Marine Station at Stanford University and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.[3]
Education
Palumbi received his PhD from the University of Washington in marine ecology.[4]
Career
In 1996, Palumbi was awarded a Pew Fellowhsip 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."[5]
Palumbi reached the position of Professor at Harvard University, before moving to Stanford University in August 2002,[2] where he became the Director of the Hopkins Marine Station, a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment,[4] and the Harold A. Miller Professor[1][2] and the Jane and Marshall Steel Jr. Professor in Marine Sciences.[3]
Research interests
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.[4]
Public engagement
In 2003, Palumbi participated in the documentary TV series The Future Is Wild,[4] 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. The series explored possible evolutionary changes in the future over the period of five to two hundred million years, and was developed over a period of four years by a team of scientists whose work was visualised through computer animation.[6][7]
Publications
Palumbi has written several books:
- The Evolution Explosion: How Humans Cause Rapid Evolutionary Change, 2002.[8]
- The Death and Life of Monterey Bay: A Story of Revival, 2011 (with Carolyn Sotka).[9]
- The Extreme Life of the Sea, 2014 (with Anthony R. Palumbi).[10]
He has also been an author of more than 200 scientific papers.[11]
Personal Life
Palumbi is married to a physician, Mary Roberts, and is the father two grown children. His interests include music, and was part of the group who founded the band Sustainable Sole.[4]
References
- ^ a b Jordan, Rob (June 28, 2017). "The radiation-exposed corals of Bikini Atoll may hold insights on cancer". Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. Stanford Univeristy. Retrieved July 15, 2017.
- ^ a b c "Stephen Palumbi". woods.stanford.edu. Stanford University. 2017. Retrieved July 15, 2017.
- ^ a b "Stephen Palumbi". hopkinsmarinestation.stanford.edu. Stanford University. Retrieved July 15, 2017.
- ^ a b c d e "Stephen Palumbi". palumbi.stanford.edu (Palumbi Lab), Hopkins Marine Station. Stanford University. Retrieved July 15, 2017.
- ^ "Programs in Marine Conservation – Marine Fellows: Stephen R. Palumbi, Ph.D." The Pew Charitable Trusts. 2017. Retrieved July 15, 2017.
- ^ Byrne, Ciar (March 30, 2004). "Fish in trees and elephant-sized squid – the future as seen on TV". The Independent. Retrieved October 19, 2011.
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{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|dead-url=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Palumbi, Stephen R. (2002). The Evolution Explosion: How Humans Cause Rapid Evolutionary Change. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 9780393323382.
- ^ Palumbi, Stephen R.; Sotka, Carolyn (2011). The Death and Life of Monterey Bay: A Story of Revival. Island Press. ISBN 9781597269872.
- ^ Palumbi, Stephen R.; Palumbi, Anthony R. (2014). The Extreme Life of the Sea. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9781400849932.
- ^ "Palumbi Lab – Publications". palumbi.stanford.edu (Palumbi Lab), Hopkins Marine Station. Stanford University. June 1, 2017. Retrieved July 15, 2017.