At-risk corals in the wild could be monitored with AI-powered buoys that capture similar data in the future, Murturi posits, adding that corals in areas with sudden temperature spikes could be brought into labs, nurtured, and then reintroduced once temperature surges die down. But if ocean conditions don’t improve, Murturi and other researchers won’t be able to return corals to their homes until fundamental steps are taken to lower rising water temperatures that are fatal to corals worldwide.
“My research is a Band-Aid to the problem. What we need now is better forms of generating electricity,” Murturi tells PCMag.