She received her BA in Geosciences from Princeton University and her PhD in Oceanography from the MIT-WHOI Joint Program. Her research focuses on understanding the interactions between climate and marine microbial ecosystem composition and function. By combining biological, chemical and physical observations with ecosystem models, Naomi aims to elucidate the underlying mechanisms responsible for biogeochemical cycling in marine microbial ecosystems and to identify climate-ecosystem feedback loops. The Levine lab is developing novel modeling approaches that explicitly represent the response of dynamic microbial communities to a variable and changing environment.