The Ocean's Menagerie

Drew Harvell is Professor Emerita of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University and Affiliate Faculty in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Science, University of Washington. Her research on the health and sustainability of marine ecosystems has taken her from the reefs of Mexico, Indonesia, Palau and Hawaii to the cold waters of the Pacific Northwest and resulted in over 190 academic articles in journals such as Science, Nature, and Ecology. She is a long-time research diver, including 4 saturation diving missions. Her current research, based at Friday Harbor Laboratories, is focused on health of foundation and keystone species in the Salish Sea. She is a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America and the American Association for Advancement of Science, and awarded the 2020 ESA Sustainable Science Award, 2020 Cornell SUNY Chancellors Award, 2019 Seattle Aquarium Conservation Research Award, PROSE AWARD (Ocean Outbreak), National Outdoor Book Award (A Sea of Glass), Rachel Carson Environment Book Award, Honorable Mention (A Sea of Glass). She releases a new book, Ocean Menagerie: How Earth’s Strangest Creatures Reshape the Rules of Life in 2025. She chairs the Advancement Board of Friday Harbor Marine Labs and is a science adviser for Fabian Cousteau’s Proteus Ocean Group, working to build the International Space Station of the Ocean.