Callum Roberts (biologist)

Callum Roberts (biologist) Callum Michael Roberts (born 1963) is a British marine conservation Marine biology biologist, oceanographer, Science communication science communicator, and award-winning author. His 2007 book The Unnatural History of the Sea won the 2008 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award. His 2012 book Ocean of Life won the Mountbatten Maritime Award. Quotes Ocean currents#Wind-driven circulation Surface current patterns were used to map dispersal routes of Pelagic zone pelagic Marine larval ecology larvae from 18 coral reef sites in the Caribbean Sea Caribbean. The sites varied, both as sources and recipients of larvae, by an order of magnitude. It is likely that sites supplied copiously from “upstream” reef areas will be more resilient to recruitment overfishing, less susceptible to species loss, and less reliant on local management than places with little upstream reef. The mapping of connectivity patterns will enable the identification of beneficial management partnerships among nations and the design of networks of interdependent reserves. 1997 Connectivity and management of Caribbean coral reefs Science 278 5342 1454–1457 https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.278.5342.1454 More than two centuries have passed since Edmund Fanning Fanning's discovery. Palmyra Atoll Palmyra passed from American to French, then to Palmyra Atoll#Annexation by the Kingdom of Hawaii (1862) Hawaiian hands, but it was never colonized, perhaps because it was too remote even by Pacific standards. It was briefly a U.S. Naval air command base in World War II and the debris of conflict still liter the islands and lagoons. But underwater, it remains much as Fanning described it. Palmyra is one of the last places on this planet where shallow water marine life is still as varied, rich, and abundant as it was in the eighteenth century. A diver stepping into the seas around this atoll today is able to take a trip back in time to an age when fishing had not yet touched life in the sea. Preface The Unnatural History of the Sea Washington, DC Island Press 2009 9781597265775 https://books.google.com/books?id=hhYa4as60EcC&pg=PT9 (454 pages; 1st edition 2007) I knew the moment that I put my head underwater in a coral reef in Jeddah that there was no other career possibility for me. Callum Roberts Explains The Importance Of Marine Protected Areas June 6, 2019 WWF International, YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHwe-wIsDs4 ... when you take into account that third dimension of depth, then 97% of the volume of living space on Earth is made up by ocean. Future Ocean with Callum Roberts October 29, 2022 The Science and Cocktails Foundation, YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHHNPmZlAy4&t=155 (quote at 2:35 of 43:34 in video) Obviously, terrestrial mining does have very serious and significant impacts. But, largely speaking, they are much more controllable in a terrestrial setting. They are much more visible — so that third parties can verify them and make sure that mining companies are adhering to Mining law mining codes. Whereas, they would be far harder to see and verify and attribute to individual mines in the deep sea. Saving the World from Bad Ideas: Bad idea #12 'there’s nothing down there' with Callum Roberts June 5, 2025 WePlanet, YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY5auDaDSc4&t=1472s) (quote at 24:32 of 1:03:17 in video) Quotes about Callum Roberts There are few better guides to the glories of Coral reef reefs than Callum Roberts. Reef Life is a vibrant memoir of the joys, as well as the grind, of a research career beginning in the 1980s that has spanned a golden age of coral reef science. It is also a fine introduction to the ecology of reefs and the existential threats they now face. Roberts is well equipped for the task. He is chief scientific adviser to Blue Planet II, and has given us two of the best books in the last 15 years about the ecology of the sea and its fate in human hands: An Unnatural History of the Sea and Ocean of Life.Roberts revels in the details of life on a coral reef. Caspar Henderson, Reef Life by Callum Roberts review – miraculous and threatened. ‘Thunderclaps of wonder’ ... a moving memoir by a marine biologist who has spent decades exploring coral reefs 16 November 2019 The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/16/reef-life-underwater-memoir-callum-roberts-review Roberts is a Marine biology marine biologist and an occasional columnist for the The Guardian Guardian. His command of research is prodigious, and his generosity with example is prodigal. He is good on the big picture, but he understands even better how to burnish an argument with gleaming detail. ...Roberts has a way of bringing marine disaster closer to home. The long summer vacation of British parliamentarians is not a reward for their legislative labours but a consequence of the Great Stink Great Stink of 1858, in which a River Thames Thames choked with sewage and refuse became so vile that parliament's windows were hung with sheets soaked with bleach. ...He is good on the horrors of oil spills but he points out that the Gulf of Mexico's fishing fleets kill more marine life in a day than BP's notorious Deepwater Horizon disaster did in months. Oil companies are easy to demonise but the biggest source of oil pollution is either run off from land or directly injected by the two stroke engine of the recreational boat: the floating fuel and oils concentrate on the surface, poisoning the eggs and hungry larvae of hundreds of species. Tim Radford, Ocean of Life: How our Seas are Changing, by Callum Roberts – review. Roberts tells a wonder-filled story of humankind and the sea, including its horrors. 18 November 2013 The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/nov/18/ocean-of-life-how-our-seas-are-changing-review External links Category:1963 births Category:Living people Category:Academics from England Category:Ecologists Category:Environmentalists from England Category:Marine biologists Category:Non-fiction authors from England Category:Oceanographers Category:Zoologists from England