As we all endure a record-hot summer that scientists say is largely the result of climate change, the tangible evidence is all around us, including triple-digit temperatures, wildfires, drought and floods. And while the impacts of a changing climate are evident and trackable above ground, a lesser-known area of study involves the impact it is having where we can't see — in the ocean. That is the focus of research being conducted by University of New Mexico researchers in the Department of Computer Science who recently undertook fieldwork in Curaçao to model some out-of-the-ordinary data points they could not access in land-locked New Mexico: coral reefs.

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