About the Author

Lisa-ann Gershwin (Tasmania, AUS) is director of the Australian Marine Stinger Advisory Services. She was awarded a Fulbright scholarship in 1998 for her studies on jellyfish blooms and evolution. She has discovered over 190 new jellyfish species, as well as a new species of dolphin. Lisa-ann is the author of Stung!: On Jellyfish Blooms and Future of the Ocean published by University of Chicago Press in 2013.