Tyson R. Roberts

Who is Tyson R. Roberts?

Tyson R. Roberts is an American ichthyologist. He has been described as "the world's foremost authority on Regalecus".

Roberts gained a doctorate from Stanford University in 1968 with a thesis entitled "Studies on the osteology and phylogeny of characoid fishes." He won a 1999 Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of "Organismic Biology & Ecology", and is a Research Associate at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and is also affiliated to the Conservation Genetics and Ecology Laboratory of Mahidol University, Thailand.