Shayle Matsuda

Because we're seeing these changes at such a rapid pace that we're witnessing them in our lifetimes.

And that's new.

What we're working on, like our lab group is working on, is really a whole wide range of questions.

But we're really curious about what's going to happen to corals under these future climate conditions.

And what can we do to intervene to give them a better chance of surviving?

I'm trying to decide if I want to go broad or my stuff.

That's true.

People don't.

But they're the coolest animals.

I know.

Yeah, so coral species are all really, really different.

That's something that makes them super exciting and interesting, but makes it also a lot harder to come up with strategies to help them survive because they reproduce differently.

Some will brood, like releasing coral larvae into the water.

Some will spawn, releasing coral gametes, eggs and sperm into the water.

Some are large, and they grow in these really big shapes.

Some are very small, even single polyped corals.

And they have very different life strategies.

They're so different.

They associate with different types of these symbionts.

And so what we're really interested in is doing is seeing if, you know, are there types of interventions that we can kind of scale up that managers and conservationists all around the world who work with these different corals and these different coral reef environments that are all widely different can use, or like can use as signals for what might happen in the future or to use to kind of help those corals that are out there survive.