Lisa A. Levin is a Professor Emerita at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. Her current research interests include biodiversity of deep ocean ecosystems, the effects of climate change (especially ocean deoxygenation) and human impacts on the deep ocean She is co-founder and co-lead of the Deep-Ocean Stewardship Initiative; She also helps lead the Deep Ocean Observing Strategy a UN Decade for Ocean Science program.