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Scientists from the ARC Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies have produced the world's first engineering model to predict how much damage a reef is likely to suffer when confronted with an angry sea. In a paper in Nature, Dr. Joshua Madin and Dr. Sean Connolly use mathematical models to calculate the forces that coral is subjected to by waves or storm surge and the probability of the colonies being ripped from the seabed.