This summer, our Mesocosm facility is home to a large, collaborative experiment exploring how entire reef communities respond to warmer ocean temperatures — not just individual corals. It’s the final experiment of the NSF-funded AU Coral Project, which studies whether artificial upwelling (bringing cooler, deep water to the surface) can help protect reefs during marine heat waves. Twelve large outdoor basins now host mini reef communities from Bermuda’s Hog Reef — complete with hard and soft cor