Hannah is a Ph.D. student in the Davies lab at Boston University. She previously studied thermal performance of the northern star coral as a Virginia Sea Grant fellow during her Master’s at Old Dominion University, and is now exploring new scientific questions with the same coral during her Ph.D. As a WDHOF scholar, Hannah will be dipping below the surface again to study the relationship between the coral host and its algal symbiont in response to temperature stress. Hannah’s research will help improve our understanding of this important and intimate relationship, and how these organisms may fare under contemporary climate change.