Drew Harvell is Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University and Curator of the Blaschka Marine Invertebrate Collection. She teaches courses in marine ecology, marine invertebrate biodiversity and conservation oceanography. Her research on the sustainability of marine ecosystems has taken her from directing projects with The World Bank on the reefs of Mexico, Indonesia, Myanmar and Hawaii to the cold waters of the Pacific Northwest. She is a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America and the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future and a winner of the Society of American Naturalist Jasper Loftus-Hills Award. She has published over 170 articles in journals such as Science, Nature, and Ecology and her lab was most recently featured in New York Times article,https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/16/sc.... https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/30/cl... Her first book, A Sea of Glass (2016) won a National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature, a Rachel Carson Environmental Literature Award and was one of 2016’s best “Art Meets Science” books by Smithsonian Magazine and was featured by Discover, Scientific American, The Guardian, The New York Times and Nature. Her second book, Ocean Outbreak: Confronting a Rising Tide of Marine Disease, releases April 2019.