Jo-Marie Kasinak, M.S. is a Lecturer in the Biology Department at Sacred Heart University. She was hired to teach concepts in biology courses as well as to help coordinate the concepts in biology labs. Prof. Kasinak’s research has always involved ecology and she has worked primarily in aquatic habitats, both freshwater and marine. Currently she is collaborating on a restoration project in Stratford CT. The goal of the project is to restore the intertidal habitat and coastal upland at the site. In order to slow shoreline erosion reef balls have been added to the intertidal zone and salt marsh grasses have been planted. In the upland hundreds of trees and shrubs have been planted as well as two pollinator habitats. She is currently a PI on a grant related to this project. Kasinak is also the Outreach coordinator for Project Limulus, a long term and large scale study of the horseshoe crab population in Long Island Sound. Each year Project Limulus hosts dozens of talks and beach walks where they educate hundreds of children and adults about horseshoe crabs and the Long Island Sound ecosystem.