Lanna Cheng

Lanna Cheng is a marine scientist known for her research on marine insects, particularly the sea-skater genus ''Halobates''. Cheng has had a long career at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego (SIO-UCSD), where she contributed to research in marine biology, oceanography, climate-change and plastic pollution. She holds the title of Research Scientist Emeritus at Scripps.

She also discovered the unique micro-hair layer in ''Halobates'' which protects them from drowning and allows respiration during submergence (1973). Provided by Wikipedia