Coral art: Drawing out the secrets of coral reef resilience to high ocean temperatures

When Victoria Glynn came to Panama to study the effects of extreme ocean temperatures on coral reefs at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) as a pre-doctoral fellow in professor Rowan Barrett's lab at McGill University, she drew corals to explain her work to kids. Now, her illustrations help broader audiences reach an "Ah ha!" moment as she explains how corals from more variable ocean environments may be better equipped to survive rising ocean temperatures than corals from more stable environments—in a paper published in Current Biology.