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Study begins second phase with donation from Chiles Restaurant Group

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Mote Marine Laboratory honored 356 volunteers — including some who have served for 35 years — during its annual volunteer awards ceremony on April 19, 2018.

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Mote Marine Laboratory will kick off a new lecture series with its first presentation at 3-4 p.m. Saturday, April 28, at the Marathon Branch Library. These monthly events are free to the public and will feature a presentation from a marine scientist followed by a question and answer session. 

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Mote Marine Laboratory will launch a new presentation series with its first talk from 5-6 p.m. Saturday, April 21 at Divers Direct in Key West. These monthly events are free to the public and will feature a presentation from a marine scientist followed by a question and answer session. 

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Florida red tide algae toxins can stress and even kill sublegal stone crabs — young adults whose claws are growing toward legal harvest size — according to preliminary research results published recently in the scientific journal Marine Environmental Research, indicating a strong need for continued studies.

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Thousands gathered to celebrate coral reef ecosystems, conservation and Florida Keys culture during Mote’s Ocean Fest: A Community Celebration on April 14 at the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary’s Eco-Discovery Center and the beautifully renovated Truman Waterfront Park in Key West.

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Manatees can sicken or even die from cold-stress syndrome when winter temperatures plummet in Florida. Why are these big mammals so cold-sensitive, and how can we take their temperatures? On this episode, Dr. Nicola Erdsack shares some emerging answers; she and her colleagues are investigating new methods to detect temperature change in manatees, and those methods have the potential to benefit manatee rehabilitation and even research in the wild. Erdsack is an international Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Mote whose work is supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

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You can be the one to create a better environment for each other, our children and the ocean life that supports our health and happiness: Donate to Mote Marine Laboratory during the 2018 Giving Challenge on May 1 and 2 in southwest Florida.

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The resident manatees at Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium have been swimming against a current in an Endless Pool water flume  — the same kind of swimmer’s “treadmill” used by human athletes — for the first study of energetic costs in continuously swimming manatees.

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