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Florida International University and Mote Marine Laboratory are developing new and more efficient ways to treat manatees exposed to toxic red tide. Through a $428,000 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s ECOHAB program, FIU and Mote are launching a three-year project...
End-of-year update (December 2018) Preliminary results: Snook rapid assessment during 2018 red tide along Boca Grande When spawning snook perish from Florida red tide, other adult snook may re-occupy their spawning sites rapidly after conditions improve, according to Mote Marine Laboratory’s August...
Mote Marine Laboratory scientists tagged an adult male loggerhead sea turtle nicknamed “Intrepid” with a satellite transmitter and released him this morning, July 27 from Lido Beach, Sarasota County, as part of a conservation-focused research effort. The turtle was rescued June 7 when citizens...
By Miguel Montalvo Mote Marine Laboratory’s Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Hospital staff released a subadult Kemp's ridley turtle on Friday, July 13, from Anna Maria Island after it recovered from entanglement in fishing gear. The rehabilitation and release of this turtle, nicknamed “Gazpacho,”...
Story contributed by Florida Institute of Technology with additions from Mote Marine Laboratory Dr. Eugenie Clark was a pioneer in shark biology, known around the world for her illuminating research on shark behavior. She was also a pioneer in another critical way, as one of the first women of prominence...
Written by Stephanie Hagan A few weeks ago, Mote scientists placed tracking devices on two whale sharks nicknamed “Minnie” and “Colt” offshore of Longboat Key and New Pass in Sarasota. On Saturday, June 30, Minnie’s tag “pinged” and revealed her location about 50 miles north of the Florida...
Photo above & below: Loggerhead turtle Walter with satellite tag. Credit both: Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife (CROW) An adult male loggerhead sea turtle was fitted with a satellite tracker and released at the West Wind Inn on Sanibel on Thursday, June 28, following rehabilitation...
Written by Stephanie Hagan Mote Marine Laboratory scientists are launching a research project this week that will test whether filter-feeding animals and seaweeds can help mitigate the effects of Florida red tide, an algal bloom caused by the naturally occurring microscopic organism Karenia brevis....
Written by Stephanie Hagan Thanks to whale shark sightings reported by the public off the southwest Florida coast in early June, scientists from Mote Marine Laboratory located five of the polka-dotted, filter-feeding giants and tagged two of them with tracking devices on the afternoon of June 14. All...
On June 14 at Atlantis, Paradise Island resort in The Bahamas, one of only two aquariums in the Western Hemisphere to presently care for and study the manta ray, a marine scientist and a team of 20 marine aquarists successfully completed the transfer of a 700-plus pound manta nicknamed “Leyley” with...