$6.7 Million to Fund US Coastal Resilience
NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science has announced $6.7 million in fiscal year 2023 funding for 18 coastal resilience research projects across the U.S.
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Florida Opens Red Tide Mitigation Tech Testing Facility
The Florida Red Tide Mitigation & Technology Development Initiative, led by Mote Marine Laboratory in collaboration with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, is moving closer to finding the technologies and strategies that could be deployed for mitigation efforts during future red tides (blooms of Karenia brevis algae). Florida Governor Ron DeSantis publicly opened a state-of-the-art recirculating seawater facility
Read more$1.5 Million Grant to Establish Coral Gene Bank, Study Coral Diseases
Mote Marine Laboratory has been awarded a $1.5 million grant to seed 130 acres of Florida reefs with resilient varieties that can better withstand disease and climate change. Mote’s grant is one of 35 grants totaling $28.9 million awarded by the Coastal Resilience Fund, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and NOAA, with support from Shell Oil and TransRe. Funds were
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