Karen Randall is past president of the Boston Aquarium Society, and serves on the board of the Aquatic Gardeners Association (AGA). She is the technical editor of the AGA magazine "The Aquatic Gardener". She has served as a judge for both the AGA Aquascaping Contest and the Aqua Design Amano International Aquatic Plants Layout Contest. She writes the monthly column Sunken Gardens in "Aquarium Fish Magazine" and is an international speaker on aquarium subjects.