Olivia joined MBARI after completing her Ph.D. at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.  She works in the Benthic Biology and Ecology team on the influence of environmental change on deep-sea faunal communities, including chemosynthetic taxa. Olivia is interested and active regarding the broader impacts of her research – “doing science for science is not enough” – and has led an economic valuation of people’s awareness of the deep sea.