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Mote Marine Laboratory is pleased to announce that over $400,000 has been awarded from this year’s Protect Our Reefs (POR) License Plate Grant Program. Sales of the POR specialty license plate provides funds that are administered by Mote to support new and ongoing Florida Coral Reef research, restoration,...
Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium scientists participated in a conference consisting of a series of workshops that brought together over 600 coral restoration practitioners, researchers, students and resource managers from around the world to share the latest techniques, technologies and science...
On February 21, 2019, Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium hosted Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) at its City Island campus to discuss urgent threats facing Florida’s oceans, including harmful algae blooms affecting our coastlines and the significant decline of coral reefs. Mote President & CEO, Dr....
High school and undergraduate educators can access a new, free lesson to help their students investigate the impacts of varying climate and other ocean conditions on coral reefs. The guided, inquiry-based lesson “How Do Upwelling and El Niño Impact Coral Reef Growth?” uses real-world data and...
The progression of Caribbean yellow-band disease — a widespread killer of reef-building corals — can be significantly impeded by chiseling a “firebreak” around the diseased coral tissue, but more research is needed to maintain the firebreak long-term, reports a peer-reviewed research paper published...
Feb. 18 media opportunity in the Florida Keys What: Mote Marine Laboratory will begin demolishing its buildings in the Florida Keys to make way for the construction of its new research and education facility. It is Mote’s goal to establish the first LEED Gold-certified facility in Monroe County,...
Researchers from six nations gather for the 1st International Workshop on Impacts of Ocean Acidification and Climate Change on Corals and Coral Reefs, which was led by Mote Marine Laboratory and the Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences in Eilat, Israel and took place Dec. 6-10 in Eilat. The...