Callum Roberts

Callum Michael Roberts is a marine conservation biologist, oceanographer, author, research scholar at the University of York, England.[1]

For the Notts County football player, see Callum Roberts (footballer).

Callum Roberts
Alma materUniversity of York
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of York
ThesisAspects of coral reef fish community structure in the Saudi Arabian Red Sea and on the Great Barrier Reef (1986)

Career

Roberts' work examines the impact of human activity on marine ecosystems, particularly coral reefs.

Roberts is also an active supporter of the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition.

Since 2011 Roberts has written occasional opinion editorials for The Guardian[2] on various marine conservation topics, including overfishing.[3] He also appeared in the documentary film, The End of the Line (2009).

He is the author of two award-winning books, The Unnatural History of the Sea (Rachel Carson Award, 2007) and Ocean of Life (Mountbatten Award, 2013). His latest book is Reef Life: An Underwater Memoir (2019).

Other work

1999-2003. Member of editorial board of Conservation Biology, published by the Society for Conservation Biology.

1997-2000. Member of Editorial board of journal Animal Conservation, published by Cambridge University Press.

1996. Senior editor of the proceedings of a symposium: "Marine reserves: Function and Design" held at the 8th International Coral Reef Symposium, Panama.

1991-1996. Co-editor of Reef Encounter, Newsletter of the International Society for Reef Studies.

Bibliography
  • The Unnatural History of the Sea. Island Press, 2007. ISBN 9781597261029, 9781597265775
  • The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea. Viking Press, 2012; Penguin, 2013. ISBN 9780670023547, 9780143123484
  • Reef Life: An Underwater Memoir. Profile Books; Profile Books, 2019. ISBN 9781788162159, 9781788162159

References
  1. "Callum Roberts". The University of York. Retrieved 8 October 2010.
  2. "Callum Roberts". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  3. "We knew fish catches were too high. But it's much worse than we thought". The Guardian. 21 January 2016. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
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