this is lizzie mccloud, who's global coal reefs lead at the nature conservancy, researches like lizzie, are going one step further in the quest to help reefs resist climate change by investigating how to actually toughen cold reefs up. and so some of the strategies people are using is, are taking corals that are, we call it stress hardened, so they're better able to deal with ocean warming and actually transplanting and moving them from those areas to other areas with the holes that they'll pass along that trait to their offspring and help the corals in that new area be better able to cope with warming. one way of doing this is to find naturally heat resistant. corals that have survived hope what is before and transplant them from one reef to another. and these aren't the only cutting edge techniques are such as a, using our, the teens are hoping to not just toughen up coal reefs as a whole, but also the individual kohls themselves. in my research, we are mostly focusing on increasing the tolerance of corals to heat. this is ecological geneticist. madeline fan open. madeline's, looking