Sensor to Monitor Acidification in FL Keys
Mote has deployed a SeapHOx sensor to monitor pH and dissolved oxygen off Looe Key.
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Ocean Fest Dec. 3, Key West, FL
Mote Marine Laboratory’s 2023 Ocean Fest: A Community Celebration is a family-friendly festival promoting marine conservation.
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 moreMajor Coral Restoration in Florida Keys
NOAA and partners are beginning a three-year effort to outplant more than 60,000 fragments of nursery-raised coral at Eastern Dry Rocks Sanctuary Preservation Area off the coast of Key West, Florida. This is the first large-scale endeavor dedicated to Mission: Iconic Reefs, the unprecedented effort to restore seven coral reefs within Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Eastern Dry Rocks contains a
Read more$5 Million Grant for Florida Keys Reef Restoration
A $5 million grant will fund an unprecedented ecosystem-scale reef restoration at Eastern Dry Rocks, one of seven iconic reefs located in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary as part of Mission: Iconic Reefs. The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and NOAA awarded the grant to the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation through the National Coastal Resilience Fund. The foundation in partnership with Mote Marine
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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