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 at Scripps. Her research examines the biodiversity of deep continental margin ecosystems including methane seeps and oxygen minimum zones. She examines the effects of climate change (especially ocean deoxygenation) and human impacts on the deep ocean. Levin has participated in or led over 50 research cruises and made 70 submersible dives in the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic Oceans. She is a co-founder of the Deep-Ocean Stewardship Initiative, which seeks to advise on ecosystem-based management of resource use in the deep ocean and strategies to maintain the integrity of deep-ocean ecosystems within and beyond national jurisdictions. She also represents the Deep Ocean Observing Strategy (a program within GOOS) to the Decade for Ocean Science. Dr. Levin is active in bringing climate science to policy and has contributed to multiple IPCC reports, UNFCCC Ocean Dialogues, World Ocean Assessments, the BBNJ Agreement and International Seabed Authority negotiations.
She was the Principal Investigator on the Biodiverse Borderlands expedition.
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