In summer 2018, Muriel Leung (C' 19) did research as a Summer Student Fellow at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Her project focused on quantifying the effects of ocean acidification (OA) on coral reefs — no trips to coral reefs were involved unfortunately, but she did get to enjoy beautiful Cape Cod beaches after work every day! Muriel compared experimental records of skeletal density — the one component of coral growth most sensitive to OA — with predicted densities from a numerical skeletal growth model without OA-forcing to determine a statistical relationship between OA and coral density. Muriel's work will contribute to an understanding of how coral reefs and the diverse ecosystems they host are effected by a changing environment.
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