She holds the Elizabeth Hamman and Morgan Dene Oliver Chair in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation Science.
[3] Her postdoctoral advisors were Rudolph Scheltema and Hal Caswell at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
[3] Her work also considers the structure of vulnerable ecosystems, wetland biotic interactions and larval ecology of coastal marine populations.
[5] She has worked extensively in the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic Oceans using a range of deep-sea equipment including submersibles, remotely operated underwater vehicles.
She monitored cold seep sediments, checking the interaction of fauna with flow and reporting the first review of the different size groups of organisms.
[4][7] Together with her students, Levin has worked with a broad range of taxa, from microbes and microalgae to invertebrates, fishes and whales.
Her recent research has emphasized 3 major themes:[8] She served on the San Diego Wetlands Advisory Board.