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When most people hear about Florida's coral reefs, the news is heartbreaking. The Florida Reef Tract—the only living barrier coral reef in the continental United States—has suffered devastating losses from unprecedented marine heat waves, coral bleaching, disease outbreaks like Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD), declining water quality, and decades of human impact. Some iconic reef-building corals have disappeared from areas where they once dominated. It would be easy t