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My name is Julia Baum and I study tropical
coral reefs.
Coral reefs are one of the most vulnerable
marine ecosystems to climate change.
They can be
become really stressed even when water
temperatures rise just one degree centigrade
above what they're used to.
We are working out on Christmas Island,
whichis in the central equatorial Pacific.
It was basically ground zero for the El Niño,
so the corals there experienced the greatest
heat stress ever recorded
during that El Niño.
And we documented 90% coral mortality because
of that heat stress.
Students are really the heart of 
the Baum Lab.
They do everything from collecting data with
me in the field to doing the laboratory analysis,
statistical analysis, writing their papers.
They drive all of the research.
And we really work closely together as a team.
UVic has really given me the freedom to grow
as a researcher
and to take risks as a researcher.
And I think that taking risks is really important,
especially in scientific research.
And I think that's where a lot of the ground-breaking
discoveries are going to happen.
Climate change is already impacting Canada's
marine ecosystems.
It's already having an impact on all of our
fisheries.
I believe our research is going to make a
difference,
helping to understand how we can
conserve the world's coral reefs,
and helping us to develop really targeted 
management measures
for conserving all of the oceans' ecosystems.
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