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Roy Rich

Roy Rich

MarineGEO Central

Research Ecologist | MarineGEO CPOP Manager

Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

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Roy has been a grant funded Research Ecologist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) since 2015. He received a BA in Biology from Grinnell College (1996) and a PhD in Forest Ecology from the University of Minnesota (2005). His research work operates at the interface of technology and ecology. Roy specializes in designing, building, and programming experiments. His work focuses on technology to examine how global change factors such as warming, sea level rise, or elevated CO2 affects ecosystem processes and functions. Roy is also interested in developing open-source sensor technology and platforms to serve the needs of these experiments. Aside from his current academic studies and research, Roy is a husband, father, woodworker, gardener, runner, and Nikyu judoka.  

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The Marine Global Earth Observatory (MarineGEO), directed by the Smithsonian’s Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network (TMON), is a network of partners researching biodiversity as the heart of healthy, productive, coastal ecosystems, where marine life and people are concentrated and interact most. MarineGEO marshals the Smithsonian’s leadership in discovery and convening power to advance knowledge useful to decision-makers in supporting innovative management and protection of marine life.