Question: what is your experiment

Sarah-Jane Walsh answered on 17 Jun 2013:

Currently i’m looking at how the environment can make coral reefs stronger against climate change. For example if a coral grows in a really calm environment it isn’t used to a lot of change, but if a coral lives in an environment where it has big changes such as, high and low tide and big changes in temperature will be more used to change.

In the lab we grow our corals under high and low light, high and low temperature, and high and low waves to see how this affects the coral and if any of these make them stronger against climate change.

Once we identify this we can go to coral reefs around the world and predict which are the stronger coral reefs and so the most likely to survive. we can then tell the conservationists to protect that reef more as it has a stronger chance of surviving and produces stronger corals!