Our Team

Karina Scavo Lord

Karina is a postdoctoral associate lecturer at Boston University (BU). She completed her PhD in the Finnerty Lab at BU where she focused on understanding the role of non-reef coral habitats, like mangroves, to coral survival and evolution and its implications for conservation. In her postdoc, Karina is continuing to use these approaches to investigate the spatial scale of heat tolerance and adaptation of populations of the temperate eelgrass, Zostera marina, across New England using both genomic and experimental approaches.

Charley Mitchell

Charley is a first year Master’s research student at Boston University.  He is in the Biology department and has a focus on Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution. He majored in Marine Science and minored in Biology at Boston University. He is working on eelgrass wasting disease and the impact it has on carbon sequestration rates around the Massachusetts area.  In addition, Charley’s is studying the susceptibility of eelgrass populations to wasting disease using genomics and is co-advised by Dr. John Finnerty.  When Charley is not performing his research, he likes to run along the Charles River and listen to a wide range of music

 

Past Students/Technicians

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2023-2024:  Kimberly Candalerio, Noah Singer

2021-2022:  Cece Gerstenbacher, Ryen Guthrie, Ved Ahuja

2019-2021:  Hannah Ferraro, Nayantara Srinivasan, Nikki Sarette

2017-2018: Julian Burlando-Salazar, Aryanna Volk, Grace Maddox

2016-2017: Lindsay Peter, Audrey Michniak, Molly Sullivan

2015-2016: Hali Macko, Charley Williford

2015-2017: Hanna Mogensen