Drew Harvell is a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Cornell University and curator of the Blaschka Marine Invertebrate Collection. Her research on the sustainability of marine ecosystems has taken her from the reefs of Mexico, Indonesia, and Hawaii to the cold waters of the Pacific Northwest. She has published more than 120 articles in journals such as Science, Nature, and Ecology; is coeditor of The Ecology and Evolution of Inducible Defenses; and is a lead author of the oceans chapter in the 2014 National Climate Assessment.