Assessing acute thermal assays as a rapid screening tool for coral restoration
Escalating environmental threats to coral reefs coincides with global advancements in coral restoration programs. To improve long-term efficacy, practitioners must consider incorporating genotypes resilient to ocean warming and disease...
Coral Restoration Dive Programs
Partner with Mote on Your Next Dive Join Mote Marine Laboratory and our partners as a citizen scientist, and receive hands-on opportunities to make a positive difference in the health of our coral reef ecosystem. Divers in...
Mote and Combat Wounded Veterans Partner in Coral Restoration Effort Ahead of The Summer Heat
Earlier this month, Mote Marine Laboratory welcomed thirteen members of the Combat Wounded Veterans Challenge (CWVC) to its Elizabeth Moore International Center for Coral Reef Research &...
Coral Restoration: Grazers Internship (Keys)
Coral Restoration: Grazers Internship The Grazers team, part of the Coral Reef Restoration Research Program, focuses on ecosystem level interactions,...
Coral Restoration URE (Keys)
Coral Restoration URE (Summerland Key) Internship Mentors: Ian Combs and Dr. Jason Spadaro Mote's...
Coral Restoration: Grazers URE (Keys)
Coral Restoration: Grazers URE (Keys) Internship Mentors: Katie Bozza and Dr. Jason Spadaro The Grazers team, part of the Coral...
Coral Restoration: Grazers URE
Coral Restoration: Grazers URE (Sarasota) Internship Mentors: Tom Waldrop and Dr. Jason Spadaro The...
Coral Restoration: Land-Based Coral Nursery Internship
Coral Restoration: Land-Based Coral Nursery Internships Mote has three land-based coral nurseries in the Florida Keys. Please be sure to specify one or several of the following program locations or projects in your statement...
Coral Restoration: Grazers Internship
Coral Restoration: Grazers Internship The Grazers team, part of the Coral Reef Restoration Research Program, focuses on ecological interactions that...
Opal Collection partners with Mote to support cutting-edge coral restoration efforts
On June 8, in honor of World Ocean Day, Opal has bought and is gifting 3,000 Coral Legend Bracelets to guests across all of their Florida properties. But this is more than just a bracelet. A portion of the proceeds from the purchase...
Celebrating a coral restoration star: Clayton Pelkey
Mote Marine Laboratory's coral research team is proud to share that Clayton Pelkey—a Mote staff biologist with autism who excels in coral restoration work—was featured recently in the video series "A Decade of U," created by...
New crabs on the block: Mote raising Caribbean king crabs to help with coral restoration
Scientists at Mote Marine Laboratory have taken a critical step toward diversifying efforts to restore Florida’s Coral Reef. In early February, Dr. Jason Spadaro, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Mote’s Elizabeth Moore International...
Mote coral restoration featured in nationally syndicated show
Mote's coral reef restoration and research efforts will be featured on the nationally syndicated show, Wildlife Nation, featuring host Jeff Corwin and presented by Defenders of Wildlife. The episode, "Crocs and Corals", features stories...
Mote’s coral restoration efforts featured in National Geographic magazine
Mote’s coral restoration efforts featured in National Geographic...
Mote begins coral restoration in large-scale effort in Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
Large-scale coral restoration begins in Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary In the spirit of this year’s Earth Day theme “Restore our Earth,” NOAA and partners are beginning a three-year effort to outplant more than...
Coral restoration takes center stage on World Oceans Day
June 8, 2020 – At a press conference earlier today in Islamorada, Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium announced plans for future development to further coral reef research and restoration in the Florida Keys and...
Local company teams up with Mote to support coral restoration
October 8, 2019 — Recognizing the critical need for healthy oceans, Enzymedica is devoting a portion of the sales of its new Aqua Biome fish oil supplements to Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium’s vital coral...
End-of-year update: Mote studies coral restoration strategies amid unprecedented disease outbreak
As the unprecedented outbreak of stony coral tissue loss disease continues affecting more than 96,000 acres of Florida Keys reefs during December 2018, Mote Marine Laboratory and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)...
June 16: Mote’s coral restoration presentation at Divers Direct in Key West
By Allison Delashmit Mote Marine Laboratory will continue its presentation series from 5-6 p.m. Saturday, June 16, at Divers Direct in Key West. These monthly...
Mote’s coral restoration initiative receives continued support by Florida budget appropriation
Mote Marine Laboratory’s science-based coral reef restoration initiative for the Florida Keys received major support in the State of Florida budget signed by Governor Rick Scott, Friday, March 16. A total of $500,000 was appropriated...
Coral restoration ongoing in Key West
Mote Marine Laboratory scientists are working with volunteers to restore corals this month in waters of Fort Zachary Taylor Historic State Park in Key West, Florida. Pre-registration is required and details are below. This...
Restoration of herbivory on Caribbean coral reefs are fishes urchins or crabs the solution
That coral reefs are in decline worldwide, particularly in the Caribbean,will come as no surprise. This decades-long decline has reached a potential tipping point as the weight of the effects of climate change have come decidedly to...
2024 Protect Our Reefs grants to fund cutting-edge coral reef ecosystem research and restoration
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...
No apparent cost of disease resistance on reproductive output in Acropora cervicornis genets used for active coral reef restoration in Florida
As assisted sexual reproduction interventions continue to become embedded within coral reef restoration initiatives, it is important to understand the potential for trade-offs between key traits like reproductive output and disease...
Assisted sexual reproduction of Acropora cervicornis for active restoration on Florida’s Coral Reef
Given the rapid, global decline in the health and abundance of coral reefs, increased investments in restoration-based interventions -including asexual and sexual propagation- are being made by coral reef scientists at research institutions,...
Large-area imaging in tropical shallow water coral reef monitoring, research, and restoration: A practical guide to survey planning, execution,...
This is a practical guide to the implementation of large-area imaging (LAI) for coral reef scientists. LAI refers to an approach to generate composite 3D (and derived 2D) image products from sequences of field-collected images using...