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Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium is excited to announce that its groundbreaking research on blue holes will be featured on South Florida PBS’s Emmy-award winning original series, Changing Seas, during its 12th season premiere on two television stations: WPBT on June 24 at 8 p.m. and WXEL on June...
Read Mote's update on the rescue below, and visit this link for a photo gallery by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. It was a very exciting day at Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium! The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), SeaWorld Orlando and Mote came together to release a...
Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium is proud to welcome Barbara Brizdle as a new member of the Board of Trustees. Elected as a Trustee in late May, Brizdle has supported Mote for over twenty years, first as a Member, in service on the Board’s Education and Aquarium Committees, and most recently...
June 8, 2020 – At a press conference earlier today in Islamorada, Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium announced plans for future development to further coral reef research and restoration in the Florida Keys and in Sarasota. This announcement, made on World Oceans Day, is in direct response to the...
New research on stony coral tissue loss disease reveals similar “bacterial signatures” among sick corals and nearby water and sediments for the first time. Results hint at how this deadly disease might spread, and which bacteria are associated with it, on Florida’s Coral Reef. This study is...
As people return to local beaches and visit local waters by boat for Memorial Day, Mote Marine Laboratory reminds everyone to respect and protect marine life. Social distancing might be new to humans, but marine animals have always needed safe, undisturbed space for essential behaviors such as feeding,...
Sarasota, FL – May 12, 2020 – Thanks to a collaborative rescue effort over the weekend, two manatees may have second chances at life. A pregnant manatee was rescued by Mote Marine Laboratory and partners, and taken to SeaWorld Orlando, where the manatee has since given birth to a calf. The Saturday...
In 2007 scientists from Mote Marine Laboratory and Ch’ooj Ajauil AC placed a location-tracking tag on a whale shark nicknamed "Rio Lady" and documented her epic migration spanning close to 5,000 miles. Now, Rio Lady is back in the scientific spotlight, being tracked by our colleagues at Nova Southeastern...
PHOTO BELOW: NESTING LOGGERHEAD TURTLE (MOST LOGGERHEADS NEST AT NIGHT, AND DAYTIME SIGHTINGS ARE RARER). CREDIT: MOTE MARINE LABORATORY. MOTE'S SEA TURTLE ACTIVITIES ARE CONDUCTED UNDER FWC MARINE TURTLE PERMITS 027, 054, 070, 048, AND 028. THE PUBLIC SHOULD NEVER APPROACH OR INTERACT WITH SEA TURTLES. Just...
Just like other community members, many marine scientists were self-isolating to protect public health in April 2020. In the meantime, researchers from multiple institutions were joining forces—mostly virtually, for now—to arrange the next major steps in a quest to fight impacts of Florida red tide,...