Big Changes Are Coming – Stay Connected with a Mote Membership! Mote Science Education Aquarium (Mote SEA) is anticipated to open Summer 2025! As we prepare for this exciting transition, we want to ...

Harmful Algal Bloom Mitigation & Ecology URE Internship Mentor: Dr. Cynthia Heil The Harmful Algal Bloom Mitigation & Ecology Research Program focuses on the ecophysiology of Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) ...

Coral Health and Disease (Sarasota) URE Internship Mentors: Dr. Sara Williams and Grace McDermott The Coral Health & Disease Research Program focuses on understanding the susceptibility and resilience ...

Preserving Corals Worldwide Members of the Coral Biobank Alliance are working to achieve the following goals: Secure the bio- and genetic diversity of all species of corals by 2026. Standardize coral ...

Monaco World Coral Conservatory: During our 2022 mission to Aldabra in the Seychelles, we managed to collect 58 coral colonies, representing 21 species, all currently hosted in European public ...

A hammerhead shark species discovered by scientists finally has a name and its namesake is the late Paul G. Allen, philanthropist and co-founder of Microsoft. The existence of the new species, Sphyrna ...

Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium, in collaboration with commercial and academic partners, were awarded $3.2 million in grants from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to fund ...

The Mote family is absolutely heartbroken to share that yesterday, April 29, our beloved resident manatee, Hugh, passed away unexpectedly. After Hugh showed a change in his behavior earlier in the day ...

The following story ran in the fall 2022 Mote Magazine, a special publication distributed to Mote’s members and donors twice a year. In the shallow salt water of the Gulf of Mexico swims a female ...

Over the past week, Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium took over 40 sea turtle hatchlings offshore to be released following rehabilitation. Mote’s Hatchling Hospital successfully rehabilitated 33 ...

A bloom of Florida red tide, patchy and persistent since December 2020, has recently increased in severity in Tampa Bay, Sarasota Bay and along the coast from Pasco to Sarasota counties, causing ...

Communities affected by the current Florida red tide are asking great questions — in particular, what more can be done to address this challenging harmful algal bloom (HAB) and better protect public ...