Texas Fauna Project

Brain Coral

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Emma Hickerson served as Research Coordinator at the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary from 1997 through 2021. While there, she helped install a pH sensor on the Sanctuary seafloor, designed to help track the effects of CO2 emissions, ocean absorption of carbon, rising seawater acidity, and worrisome impacts on the ability of corals and mollusks to build their skeletons and shells.