Phillip Levin is program manager of the Science for Ecosystem-based Management Initiative and leader of the Ecosystems and Climate Team at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center in Seattle, which is operated by the National Marine Fisheries Service. He received his Ph.D. in zoology from the University of New Hampshire in 1993 and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Marine Science, part of the University of North Carolina. A community ecologist and conservation biologist, he has studied fishes of coral reefs, kelp forests, estuaries and Pacific salmon. He is currently focused on developing new ecological approaches to solving fisheries and conservation problems.