Presentation by Racheal Serafin at the E-Aquarium Conference 2020 discussing conservation of corals at the Florida Aquarium.

Rachel Serafin is currently the Senior Coral Biologist at The Florida Aquarium's Center for Conservation in Apollo Beach, Florida. Originally from Tampa, she went to Marist College and returned to work at The
Florida Aquarium at the downtown Tampa campus. While there, she was able to work with various aquatic and avian species, specializing in syngnathids, elasmobranchs, and pacific corals.

In 2017 an opportunity to work with corals at the newly formed Center for Conservation arose. Working with endangered and threatened species of Caribbean corals has had its own challenges but the success with breeding, rearing, and out-planting has been overwhelmingly rewarding.
Her most memorial moments as a biologist include producing her first larvae from pillar coral (successfully reared and currently thriving) and diving with Pang Quong videoing pregnant male weedy dragons in southern Australia.