April 10, 2018
Shelby Isaacson
Mote scientists will host a training session at 6 p.m. April 18 on Summerland Key for divers and snorkelers interested in volunteering for the Florida Keys BleachWatch program. This program provides early warnings of potential coral bleaching events in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary during the warm summer months.
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April 7, 2018
Hayley Rutger
More than 1,000 runners and walkers hit the beach to help endangered and threatened sea turtles during Mote Marine Laboratory’s 32nd annual Run for the Turtles today, April 7, on Siesta Public Beach.
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April 5, 2018
Shelby Isaacson
The Sarasota Bay Fisheries Forum — a group for anglers, scientists and others seeking to proactively address fisheries management and science topics in the Sarasota Bay area — will hold its April meeting tonight at Mote Marine Laboratory.
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April 4, 2018
Hayley Rutger
The Association of Zoos & Aquariums (AZA) announced today that Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium in Sarasota, Florida, was granted accreditation by AZA’s independent Accreditation Commission.
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April 4, 2018
Shelby Isaacson
The first-year anniversary of Mote’s state-of-the-art facility in the Florida Keys, the Elizabeth Moore International Center for Coral Reef Research & Restoration (IC2R3), is cause for celebration. Opened in May 2017, IC2R3 exemplifies Mote’s vision as an international leader of marine research programs supporting conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity, healthy habitats and natural resources. As a worldwide leader of coral reef research and restoration, Mote is utilizing the new facility at its long-standing Summerland Key campus to scale up coral out-plantings and advance important coral reef research programs on global changes such as ocean acidification (OA).
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April 4, 2018
Shelby Isaacson
Of 228 zoos and aquariums, Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium produces the most research of any nonprofit and ranks No. 2 overall, reports a recent study of research productivity among Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) members. The findings were from the first study characterizing the contribution of zoos and aquariums to scientific research that results in the production of peer-reviewed scientific literature
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March 28, 2018
Hayley Rutger
Detecting temperature changes in rescued and rehabilitated manatees — valuable information for manatee caregivers — just got easier thanks to a new method described in a research paper published online this month in the peer-reviewed Journal of Comparative Physiology B.
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March 28, 2018
Hayley Rutger
Booker High School Engineering students are using the school’s 3D printers and other high-tech tools to build housings for the new red tide detectors created by Mote Marine Laboratory researchers — a true partnership in science, technology and education with real-world benefits.
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March 27, 2018
Hayley Rutger
Visitors might not gravitate to the simple-looking African cichlid fish in Mote Aquarium’s exhibit “Oh Baby! Life Cycles of the Seas” — but its plain appearance belies an important backstory. These black or silver fish of the species Astatotilapia piceata (also called Haplochromis piceatus) may be extinct in the wild, according to new findings shared by a Boston University (BU) professor who spent January through March this year as a visiting scientist at Mote Marine Laboratory.
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