Please watch the recoded webinar with Dr. Carly Kenkel, who shared how climate change threatens populations because an organism’s physical characteristics, or phenotype, may be ill-suited to new conditions. Ultimately, whether organisms persist or go extinct will depend on their ability to shift their phenotypes in an adaptive direction. For long-lived, broadly dispersing organisms that experience predictable environmental fluctuations, like coral, plasticity, or phenotypic changes produced within an individual’s lifetime, is predicted to play a significant role in the response to climate change. This seminar shared her research investigating the causes and consequences of phenotypic plasticity in a foundational Caribbean coral species, Acropora cervicornis.