Lisa A. Levin

Lisa A. Levin is a Distinguished Professor Emerita at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego and former Director of the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation and Oliver Chair at Scripps. Levin received her B.A. from Radcliffe College and earned her Ph.D. at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and then spent 9 years as a professor in the Dept. of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at North Carolina State University. She joined the Scripps faculty in 1992 and retired in 2022, but remains an active researcher. She is a co-founder and co-lead of the Deep Ocean Stewardship Initiative and the Deep Ocean Observing Strategy, has contributed to IPCC reports (AR5, AR6, SROCC) and the World Ocean Assessments (I, II, III). Additional past contributions include steering committee membership for the Census of Marine Life programs on chemosynthetic ecosystems (ChESS) and continental margins (CoMARGE), the US Ocean Carbon Biochemistry Program, membership on the BOEM scientific advisory committee for the US Outer Continental Shelf environmental studies board, and in working groups of the US National Academy of Sciences, SCOR, SCOPE, NCEAS, and INDEEP. L. Levin is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the Association of AAAS, has received lifetime achievement awards from the Am. Soc. Limnology and Oceanography and Western Soc. Naturalists and was awarded the Prince Albert I Grand Medal in Ocean Science.