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Hannah drilling a coral in Palau. This process is similar to a biopsy - one extracts a column of skeleton from the boulder-like coral, leaving the remaining coral intact. Coral cores are used to examine the chemical record of coral growth contained within the coral skeleton. (Photo: Alexi Shalapyonok)