Orion McCarthy, a 1st year PhD student in the Smith lab, recently contributed an article to the Agenda for International Development detailing what climate change might mean for corals. In his article he addresses the importance of coral reefs and details the processes that are triggered by climate change that could lead to a decrease in reef health worldwide. It’s not all doom and gloom though, as he talks about best practices to help mitigate climate change and highlights the research efforts being carried out at Scripps by the Smith and Sandin labs.

Click here to read the full article online, What will climate change mean for corals?