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  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2013 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 1994 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Lisa A. Levin is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a notable focus on Oceanography, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Environmental Chemistry.

Levin's work is reflected in publications across multiple venues, with frequent contributions to Frontiers in Marine Science, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Global Change Biology, Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office, and Frontiers in Climate.

The main topics in Levin's research include Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Marine and fisheries research, Coastal and Marine Management, and Marine and coastal ecosystems.

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Levin include:

  • Ecological variables for developing a global deep-ocean monitoring and conservation strategy, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Impacts of hypoxic events surpass those of future ocean warming and acidification, 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Challenges to the sustainability of deep-seabed mining, 2020, Nature Sustainability
  • Climate-induced changes in the suitable habitat of cold-water corals and commercially important deep-sea fishes in the North Atlantic, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • IPBES-IPCC co-sponsored workshop report on biodiversity and climate change, 2021, Wageningen University and Researchcenter Publications (Wageningen University & Research)

Frequent collaborators in Levin's research include Diva J. Amon, Erik E. Cordes, Alex D. Rogers, Natalya D. Gallo, and Kristina M. Gjerde.

Levin has been recognized by professional organizations, holding fellowships from the American Geophysical Union (AGU) since 2013 and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 1994.

Best Publications

  • Declining oxygen in the global ocean and coastal waters.

    Denise L. Breitburg;Lisa A. Levin;Andreas Oschlies;Marilaure Grégoire

  • Biodiversity on the Rocks: Macrofauna Inhabiting Authigenic Carbonate at Costa Rica Methane Seeps.

    Lisa A. Levin;Guillermo F. Mendoza;Benjamin M. Grupe;Jennifer P. Gonzalez

  • Dynamics and distribution of natural and human-caused hypoxia

    N. N. Rabalais;Robert J. Diaz;L.A. Levin;R.E. Turner

  • High-Frequency Dynamics of Ocean pH: A Multi- Ecosystem Comparison

    Gretchen E. Hofmann;Jennifer E. Smith;Kenneth S. Johnson;Uwe Send

  • Global distribution of naturally occurring marine hypoxia on continental margins

    John J Helly;Lisa A Levin

  • Recent progress in understanding larval dispersal: new directions and digressions

    Lisa A. Levin

  • Oxygen minimum zone Benthos: Adaptation and community response to hypoxia

    Lisa A. Levin

  • Deep, diverse and definitely different: unique attributes of the world's largest ecosystem

    E. Ramirez-Llodra;A. Brandt;R. Danovaro;B. De Mol

  • Man and the last great wilderness: human impact on the deep sea.

    Eva Ramirez-Llodra;Paul A. Tyler;Maria C. Baker;Odd Aksel Bergstad

  • ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES ON REGIONAL DEEP-SEA SPECIES DIVERSITY

    Lisa A. Levin;Ron J. Etter;Michael A. Rex;Andrew J. Gooday

  • Effects of natural and human-induced hypoxia on coastal benthos

    L.A. Levin;W. Ekau;Andrew J. Gooday;F. Jorissen

  • Coastal hypoxia and sediment biogeochemistry

    J. J. Middelburg;L. A. Levin

  • Ocean oxygen minima expansions and their biological impacts

    Lothar Stramma;Sunke Schmidtko;Lisa A. Levin;Gregory C. Johnson

  • Taking the “Waste” Out of “Wastewater” for Human Water Security and Ecosystem Sustainability

    Stanley B Grant;Stanley B Grant;Jean-Daniel Saphores;David L Feldman;Andrew J Hamilton

  • The Function of Marine Critical Transition Zones and the Importance of Sediment Biodiversity

    Lisa A. Levin;Donald F. Boesch;Alan Covich;Cliff Dahm

  • Biological structures as a source of habitat heterogeneity and biodiversity on the deep ocean margins

    Lene Buhl-Mortensen;Ann Vanreusel;Andrew J. Gooday;Lisa A. Levin

  • ECOLOGY OF COLD SEEP SEDIMENTS: INTERACTIONS OF FAUNA WITH FLOW, CHEMISTRY AND MICROBES

    Lisa A. Levin

  • Natural and human-induced hypoxia and consequences for coastal areas: synthesis and future development

    J. Zhang;D. Gilbert;A. Gooday;L. Levin

  • Changing Ocean, Marine Ecosystems, and Dependent Communities

    Nathaniel L. Bindoff;William W.L. Cheung;James G. Kairo;Javier Arístegui

  • Hydrothermal Vents and Methane Seeps: Rethinking the Sphere of Influence

    Lisa A. Levin;Amy R. Baco;David A. Bowden;Ana Colaco

  • Climate Science Special Report: Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4), Volume I

    Donald J. Wuebbles;David W. Fahey;Kathy A. Hibbard;Jeff R. Arnold

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew J. Gooday
Andrew J. Gooday National Oceanography Centre
Craig R. Smith
Craig R. Smith University of Hawaii at Manoa
Kristina M. Gjerde
Kristina M. Gjerde Middlebury College
Victoria J. Orphan
Victoria J. Orphan California Institute of Technology
Paul V. R. Snelgrove
Paul V. R. Snelgrove Memorial University of Newfoundland
Henry A. Ruhl
Henry A. Ruhl Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Dimitri Gutiérrez
Dimitri Gutiérrez Cayetano Heredia University
Eva Ramirez-Llodra
Eva Ramirez-Llodra Norwegian Institute for Water Research
Greg W. Rouse
Greg W. Rouse University of California, San Diego
Cindy Lee Van Dover
Cindy Lee Van Dover Duke University

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