Robert H. Richmond

Robert H. Richmond is both an Aldo Leopold Fellow in Environmental Leadership and a Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation, with over 100 peer-reviewed publications.  He works closely with community-based organizations, elected and traditional leaders and stakeholders, and has trained over 70 Pacific Islanders in his laboratory.

Dr. Robert H. Richmond is a Research Professor and Director of the Kewalo Marine Laboratory, University of Hawaii at Manoa.  He received a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from the Dept. of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, in 1983 and subsequently spent 2 years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, 18 years on the faculty of the University of Guam Marine Laboratory, and has been a Research Professor at the Pacific Biosciences Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, since 2004.   He has spent his career studying coral reef ecosystems in the Caribbean and the Pacific, including the Virgin Islands, the Grenadines, the Galapagos Islands, Hawaii, Japan and Micronesia.  He is a past President of the International Coral Reef Society, the Science Advisor to the All-Islands Committee of the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force and was a member of the U.S. National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine expert committee on Interventions to Support the Persistence and Resilience of Coral Reefs. He is both an Aldo Leopold Fellow in Environmental Leadership and a Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation, with over 100 peer-reviewed publications.  He works closely with community-based organizations, elected and traditional leaders and stakeholders, and has trained over 70 Pacific Islanders in his laboratory.  His research interests include coral reef ecology, marine conservation biology, ecotoxicology, ecohydrology, bridging science to management and policy, and the integration of traditional ecological knowledge with modern approaches to resource use and protection.