Our Team

Karina Scavo Lord

Karina is a 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.  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 the East Coast using both genomic and experimental approaches.

Past Students/Researchers/Technicians

2025-2026:  Charlie Mitchell, Eve Phillips, Zachary Anderson

2024-2025:  Kelly Feitz, Georgia Fanthorpe, Rachel Schaefer, Sophia Bryan

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