I am interested in how the signal of past oceans is recorded and communicated to the future. Corals hold a record of centuries, even millennia, of ocean change. Temperature, productivity, the movement of currents, past communities – these can all be revealed as we learn how to read the signals they leave behind. The memory of past biological interactions – competition, cooperation, natural selection – are also remembered through the legacy of species distributions and the continuity of genetic exchange. We continue to develop the tools to understand and reconstruct these stories, and through collaborations with artists, we can improve the way we tell these stories and bring them to a general audience.