Amy Leventer is an American Antarctic researcher and academic specialising in micropaleontology, with specific research interests in marine geology, marine biology, and climate change.

[3][4] Leventer started her post-doctoral research at Ohio State University (1989–92) where she received the Byrd Postdoctoral Fellowship,[5] and she continued with research and teaching appointments at Otterbein College (1990–94) and the University of Minnesota (1994–97).

[7] Leventer specialises in marine geology, biological oceanography, and paleoclimatology.

[3][8] She was Chief Scientist on a 2014 international research cruise to Antarctica to evaluate the recent and longer-term behavior of glacial systems.

Among almost 50 scientific publications, Leventer has three co-authored articles in the prestigious journal Nature.