Lisa A. Levin is a biological oceanographer in the Integrative Oceanography Division at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She completed her Ph.D. at SIO in 1982 and then, after a year of postdoctoral study at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, accepted a faculty position at North Carolina State University. In 1992, with their children, she and her oceanographer husband returned to SIO, where both are now professors. She studies the ecology of animal communities in marine sediments, particularly those of stressed environments, from the intertidal zone to the deep sea. Address: Integrative Oceanography Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0218. Internet: llevin@ucsd.edu; http://levin.ucsd.edu