Integrated planning: Policy and law tools for biodiversity conservation and climate change
This book explores emerging concepts, challenges, and key policy and law tools to help inform governments as they modernize public sector planning to better address 21st century change and advance their sustainable development goals....
Alfred Goldstein Institute for Climate Change Studies
The Alfred Goldstein Institute for Climate Change Studies is part of Mote's Elizabeth Moore International Center for Coral Reef Research & Restoration (IC2R3) on Summerland Key, Florida. The Institute was established thanks to...
Vulnerability to climate change of United States marine mammal stocks in the western North Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean
Climate change and climate variability are affecting marine mammal species and these impacts are projected to continue in the coming decades. Vulnerability assessments provide a framework for evaluating climate impacts over a broad...
Donation expands Mote’s climate change studies ahead of its new Keys building ribbon cutting in May
Threatened coral reefs will have more powerful allies in the Florida Keys following the official opening of Mote Marine Laboratory’s International Center for Coral Reef Research & Restoration (IC2R3) on May 25 at Summerland Key,...
Donation expands Mote’s climate change studies ahead of its new Keys building ribbon cutting in May
Threatened coral reefs will have more powerful allies in the Florida Keys following the official opening of Mote Marine Laboratory’s International Center for Coral Reef Research & Restoration (IC2R3) on May 25 at Summerland Key,...
Mote-Israeli Workshop Advances Study of Ocean Acidification, Climate Change and Coral Reefs
Researchers from six nations gather for the 1st International Workshop on Impacts of Ocean Acidification and Climate Change on Corals and Coral Reefs, which was led by Mote Marine Laboratory and the Interuniversity Institute for Marine...
Teachers: New resource helps students investigate corals and climate
High school and undergraduate educators can access a new, free lesson to help their students investigate the impacts of varying climate and other ocean conditions on coral reefs. The guided, inquiry-based lesson “How Do Upwelling...
New Study shows local environmental stressors reduce resiliency of Red Sea corals to global change
Ocean acidification (OA) is hard to describe. Many do not realize it's even there, but why would they? It doesn’t have a taste or smell. Despite its mysterious nature, OA is impacting the ocean at an exponential rate. Scientists...
Mote Marine Laboratory Awarded NSF Grant for AI-Driven Marine Animal Tracking Project
Mote Marine Laboratory is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a substantial grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation to support an innovative...
Caribbean king crab larvae and juveniles show tolerance to ocean acidification and ocean warming
Coastal habitats are experiencing decreases in seawater pH and increases in temperature due to anthropogenic climate change. The Caribbean king crab, Maguimithrax spinosissimus, plays a vital role on Western Atlantic reefs by grazing...
Energetic connectivity of diverse elasmobranch populations- implications for ecological resilience
Understanding the factors shaping patterns of ecological resilience is critical for mitigating the loss of global biodiversity. Throughout aquatic environments, highly mobile predators are thought to serve as important vectors of energy...
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...
Barbara Lausche
Presently: Director, Marine Policy Institute at Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium, Sarasota, Florida, USA (since 2011). A number of MPI projects involve collaborations with the International Union for...
CAOS System
About the CAOS System The Climate and Acidification Ocean Simulator (CAOS) System at Mote Marine Laboratory's Elizabeth Moore International Center for...
Seagrass Ecosystem Restoration Research Program
Seagrass is critically important to the ecology and economy of coastal ecosystems, serving vital functions for various fisheries, nursery habitats for a variety of keystone species, shoreline/sediment stabilization, absorbing nutrients,...
Ocean Acidification Program REU
Ocean Acidification Program REU Internship Mentor: Dr. Emily Hall The Ocean Acidification...
Deep Thoughts Blog: Exploring blue holes
Introduction In September 2020, scientists undertook one of their deepest and most challenging missions yet into the Gulf of Mexico’s blue holes—underwater caves, springs and sinkholes being explored for their unique...
Dr. Sumit Chakraborty
Sumit joined the Mote Phytoplankton Ecology group in February 2018. Sumit is interested in fine scale phytoplankton dynamics and the role of phytoplankton in the ocean carbon cycle and quantitative understanding of the perturbations...
Dr. Emily Hall
Dr. Emily Hall joined the staff at Mote Marine Laboratory in the Chemical Ecology Program in 2005 where she was most involved with research and monitoring of nutrient patterns in relation to harmful algal blooms in the west-central...
Long-term maintenance of a heterologous symbiont association in Acropora palmata on natural reefs
The sensitivity of reef-building coral to elevated temperature is a function of their symbiosis with dinoflagellate algae in the family Symbiodiniaceae. Changes in the composition of the endosymbiont community in response to thermal...
Stressing over the Complexities of Multiple Stressors in Marine and Estuarine Systems
Aquatic ecosystems are increasingly threatened by multiple human-induced stressors associated with climate and anthropogenic changes, including warming, nutrient pollution, harmful algal blooms, hypoxia, and changes in CO2 and pH....
Active acoustic surveys reveal coastal fish community resistance to an environmental perturbation in South Florida
Coastal fish communities are under increasing levels of stress associated with climate variation and anthropogenic activities. However, the high degree of behavioral plasticity of many species within these communities allow them to...
Genome-wide study in staghorn coral identifies markers of disease resistance
Present in every population of plants and animals are distinct individuals who are resistant to disease. An important question is what genetic insights can be obtained from studying these individuals. In the case of coral, many of...
Monitoring population-level foraging distribution of a marine migratory species from land: strengths and weaknesses of the isotopic approach...
Assessing the linkage between breeding and non-breeding areas has important implications for understanding the fundamental biology of and conserving animal species. This is a challenging task for marine species, and in sea turtles...
Reese Kober
Reese joined the team at the end of 2021, after graduating with a degree in Marine Biology with a minor in Environmental Science from the University of South Florida. She assists the Benthic Ecology, Chemical & Physical Ecology,...