After the Paynes divorced, Roger married Lisa Harrow, an actress from New
Zealand, whom he met at a Greenpeace rally. She has since become an
environmentalist.
Whale biologist who has spent the better time of his adult life
studying and protecting whales. His work on whale conservation laid the
foundation for the save-the-whales campaign, one of the first popular
environmental movements to take hold in mainstream America.
First wife Katy Payne, an artist and scientist, was instrumental as his
research associate. She helped to show that unlike the vast majority of
birds, humpback whales change their songs.
He studied biology at Harvard University, and earned a doctorate from Cornell University.