dr. hollie putnam's job is to predict the future of climate change.r at least its to try to simulate it in these tanks. >> so what we do is we bring in corals from the field and then we fragment those individuals into different pieces and expose them to different conditions. so in here we have a fragment of that adult colony that's exposed to say high temperature or high co2 and this particular instance it's high co2. and that would simulate future ocean acidification. >> it's the first step in a process called transgenerational acclimatization. in this case, pre-conditioning an adult to ocean acidification, and then measuring whether the offspring are then better equipped to handle that same stress event. >> what are you seeing? >> they are growing faster and surviving at a higher rate if they were preconditioned to the high temperature and high co2 and then re-exposed to that high temperature and high co2. >> yeah, it's almost like you're training them to withstand the conditions that the future might hold? >> the last step in the process, is taking