Shreya’s work around the world – from India’s Lakshadweep islands, to the Maldives and currently Hawaii – has taught her how crucial community is to coral. She stresses the importance of “integrating human dimensions into our understanding of coral reef resilience.” Her dissertation work in the Maldives (funded by a National Geographic Society Early Career grant) teased apart some of the historical, social, and ecological dimensions of coral reef resilience, integrating methods in marine social science and historical ecology with cutting-edge tools in coral reef ecology like structure-from-motion photogrammetry. Read more at her blog and follow her on Instagram and Twitter.