Olívia 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.