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What's the Catch? Mote's farm raised sturgeon is putting on the Ritz. |
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What's the Catch? Mote's farm raised sturgeon is putting on the Ritz. |
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Bull Sharks: A Real Balancing Act Michelle Heupel has spent hundreds of hours catching, tagging, releasing and tracking young bull sharks in Southwest Florida’s Caloosahatchee River. “I want to know more about how bull sharks — the only shark species known to frequent freshwater environments — survive in fresh water,” said Heupel, Ph.D, a staff scientist in Mote’s Center for Shark Research. |
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Digital Docents Live from the distance learning studio at Mote Marine Laboratory: An interactive series of videoconferencing programs and exibits helps spread the word about ocean science to museum visitors across the nation. |
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Spawn-taneous Coral For the first hour, the night dive on Looe Key reef in the Florida Keys was pretty quiet. Then all of a sudden, in a hailstorm of Bazooka bubble-gum colored pink, it happened: Heads of mountainous star corals started “popping off.” Everywhere flashlight beams fell, coral polyps were releasing eggs in reproductive synchronicity. |
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Mote Marine Laboratory has been a leader in marine research since it was founded in 1955. Today, we incorporate public outreach as a key part of our mission. Mote is an independent nonprofit organization and has seven centers for marine research, the public Mote Aquarium and an Education Division specializing in public programs for all ages.
