Mote Advances Construction of Gulf of Mexico Aquarium
Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium has installed two large acrylic panels for its new Science Education Aquarium’s largest exhibit, the Gulf of Mexico habitat.
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Mote Raises, Releases Red Drum Fish
This effort represents the largest number of red drum produced in the program’s 25-year history for the purpose of fisheries conservation efforts.
Read moreJuly 8: Underwater Music Festival for Reef Protection
A one-of-a-kind underwater concert to promote reef protection while entertaining divers and snorkelers will take place Saturday, July 8, in the waters off the Lower Florida Keys.
Read moreLineup for Mote Marine Special Lecture Series in January
Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium has announced the dates and topics for Mote’s 2023 Special Lecture Series. The series will feature Mote scientists sharing their world-class research on four Monday evenings in January.
Read moreGrants for Red Tide Testing, Study
Two University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) researchers have received grants, totaling $168,009, from the Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium to develop accurate field testing for shellfish farmers and to study Florida Red Tide migration.
Read moreRestored Florida Corals Ready for Wild
For the first time, massive corals restored to Florida’s Coral Reef are ready to become parents in the wild—a breakthrough in Mote Marine Laboratory’s scientific efforts to restore critically imperiled coral reefs, the “rainforests of the sea,” to self-sustaining life. This month, Mote’s coral reproduction scientist, Dr. Hanna Koch, identified gametes (eggs and sperm) inside colonies of two threatened, yet
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