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Melissa Fernandez, a freshman at FIU's Biomedical Engineering Dept. is an intern on the coral restoration team at the Frost Museum of Science. The team is stress-testing coral in the Inventors Lab to make reefs more climate change resilient. The coral is exposed to high lights and high heat bleaching experiments in an effort to boost their thermal tolerance and give them a better chance of surviving rising ocean temperatures. (Emily Michot/Miami Herald/TNS) Photo via Newscom picture alliance (KEYSTONE/PICTURE ALLIANCE/Emily Michot)