Science Alert: A researcher from Queensland University of Technology has advanced the use of coral to measure the rate of climate change. Studying coral at Heron Island, at the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef, QUT natural resource sciences PhD researcher Luke Nothdurft has greatly improved the accuracy of coral analysis, keeping it up-to-date with recent advances in technology. “Analysis of coral can tell us about the changes in water temperature over time and the rate of global …