In this project, a collaboration with the University of Guam´s Dr Laurie Raymundo, we are proposing an innovative approach to restoring a key coral reef community—staghorn Acropora—which provide essential wave energy buffers for coastlines along Guam, Micronesia. These populations were severely impacted by a series of environmental events between 2013 and 2017, resulting in significant mortality. We outline a plan to upscale our pilot restoration efforts and undertake additional research to develop needed best practices that will assist restored coral community adaptation to projected future climate conditions. Our plan involves incorporating population genetics and environmental metrics into a holistic restoration strategy for this essential group of corals. We will use ocean nursery-cultured juvenile colonies to create genetically diverse populations at key sites to create a network of restored populations that can potentially interbreed, which will foster their sustainability over time. After consultation with Dr. Phanor Montoya-May, the project will utilize an established outplanting design that he has used and tested, and which has proven successful in upscaling restoration for coral reefs. Our goal is thus to restore staghorn communities at 20% live coral cover to a total area of 4.15 acres (1.68 hectares) over the three-year project, spread across three target sites. Corales de Paz will assist with tasks associated with the construction, installation, and stocking of mid-water rope nurseries, with large-scale out planting of nursery-grown corals, and with assessing the effectiveness of the intervention in Guam.