Hazel Levine

Research Assistant

Professional experience

Hazel is a marine scientist and educator who grew up on and in the waters of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. She has degrees from the University of Massachusetts and the University of Minnesota with a focus in fisheries. After working various jobs studying everything from blue whales to phytoplankton, her family landed in Groton, Connecticut in 2018 and she began teaching marine science at Project Oceanology. More recently, she worked part-time as a research technician in Dr. Zofia Baumann’s lab at UConn studying the relationship between phytoplankton and mercury.

What is your favorite memory of the Sound?

There is nothing I love more than snorkeling and exploring the underwater world. I particularly enjoy diving for urchins with my kid, listening to toadfish croaking in the estuaries, clamming in the Poquonnock River, attempting to surf, and trying to identify every piece of seaweed washed up on the shore before my dog eats it.