Sea Level Change

Explore Research at the University of Florida: Andrea Dutton, a geologist at the University of Florida, searches for the answer to melting ice sheets causing rising sea level in the Florida Keys. Dutton and her team analyze the cores of fossilized coral that have risen above the sea level, and use that data to see how the coral and sea level have risen in the past. By examining the history of the coral and its reaction to sea level change over time, Dutton and her team are using the information to determine how sea level will rise or fall in the future.