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A Year of Stories from Mote Marine Laboratory (2014 End-of-year Press Release)

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Mote Marine Laboratory is proud to look back on 2014: a year filled with extraordinary stories of marine science, conservation, animal rescues, public education and more. In 2015, Mote will celebrate its 60th anniversary. In 1955,...

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Jewish Federation Awards Grant for Mote-Israeli Partnerships

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The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee has awarded an $18,000 grant to help Mote Marine Laboratory and marine scientists in Israel join forces to study some of the toughest challenges facing oceans worldwide. Grant funds will...

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A Look Back at a Year of Cool Science, Stellar Education and Aquarium Awesomeness

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As 2013 winds down, Mote Marine Laboratory is looking to the future — to exciting new directions for our world-class marine science and education, to...

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How do upwelling and El Nińo impact coral reef growth? A guided, inquiry-based lesson

https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2018.424

This lesson uses real-world data to guide students toward understanding how climate and ocean variables impact coral reef growth. To begin this activity, students hypothesize how changes in environmental conditions could affect coral...

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How does the coral microbiome cause, respond to, or modulate the bleaching process?

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75393-5_7

Coral holobionts are formed by a dynamic multipartite symbiosis with intracellular photoautotrophs in the genus Symbiodinium, as well as a consortium of microorganisms that include bacteria, archaea, viruses, fungi, and protists. The...

Mote's Amanda Felix takes care of peppermint shrimp in Mote's Aquarium Conservation Lab, one of several labs that Mote visitors can see through windows in the Aquarium.
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Mote Aquarium Sciences Apprenticeship Program (ASAP)

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The application for this program is NOW OPEN! The deadline to apply is Sunday, June 15th, 2025 at 11:59 PM EST.   The...

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Mote launching s­­tone crab research and education project in Tampa Bay with new grant

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Mote Marine Laboratory is launching a new research and education project aimed at examining which coastal habitats might help stone crabs—a $30-million seafood staple in Florida—survive the growing threat of ocean acidification,...

Two Victorian Cichlids hover in the foreground of their freshwater aquarium decorated with plants and sand. The left is silvery grey and the right is smoky black with a red tail. Both have large round eyes and lips like a grouper. More cichlids hover in the background.
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This fish in Mote Aquarium may be extinct in nature — and it has quite a backstory

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Visitors might not gravitate to the simple-looking African cichlid fish in Mote Aquarium’s exhibit “Oh Baby! Life Cycles of the Seas” — but its plain appearance belies an important backstory. These black or silver fish of the...

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Staples completes break room transformation at Mote

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https://youtu.be/uVMZRaRorSc   After a month-long renovation, Staples revealed the breakroom it transformed for Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium in Sarasota, Florida. Mote was chosen...

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For long-lived whales, better age test could strengthen conservation

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