Most of it involves baby corals – Kristen is a world-renowned expert in coral breeding; she has invented new methods for baby coral propagation and coral gene banking to help scientists and reef restoration teams around the world regrow coral reefs and rebuild coral genetic diversity. In 2017 she focussed on pineapple coral (Dichocoenia stokesii), which was being destroyed by Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease. “Fast forward five years, we now have dozens of spawning observations in Curacao, folks around the Caribbean are monitoring their spawning, we can visually ID colonies before they spawn, and we have three-and four-year-old baby pineapple corals growing in our lab,” Kristen says. “It’s so rewarding to decode the reproductive behaviour of a species like this because it means teams around the Caribbean can now take direct action in their own reefs to help recover and protect this species.” Follow Kristen on Twitter.