Elizabeth Sherman is the author of the paper Can sea urchins beat the heat? Sea urchins, thermal tolerance and climate change.  Elizabeth Sherman works at Bennington College, which is in Bennington Vermont.  She works within the Natural Science department at the college.  She started out doing research on amphibian physiology.  However, she switched her research when she learned how to scuba dive and learnt about her love of sea life.  Elizabeth's research is now mainly focused on coral reef biology (shes been studying coral reef biology for about 15 years).  Most of her research is on how the coral reef is adapting to environmental stresses mainly due to climate change.  She has written many papers, however this is the only paper of hers that is published on PeerJ (many of the papers focusing on thermal tolerance in different animals, mainly amphibians).  However, she has reviewed 135 other papers on PeerJ.
References:
PeerJ, author profile for Elizabeth Sherman
Photocredit:
Elizabeth Sherman, Ph.D.  http://faculty.bennington.edu/~sherman/