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TROPICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY

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Mote Tropical Research Laboratory, Summerland Key, FL

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513 Central Avenue [Rear] Sarasota, FL 34236 941/917-0883 Phone 941/917-0889 Fax

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Mote Marine Tropical Research Laboratory, Summerland Key, FL

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Mote Tropical Research Laboratory, Summerland Key, FL

Mote Marine Laboratory has a critical need to expand the infrastructure and operations of its Tropical Research Laboratory campus in the Florida Keys. This hotbed of marine science, education and conservation is addressing some of the most pressing ocean challenges of our day — particularly the global threats facing coral reefs — while also hosting scientists and students from many nations.

Coral reefs, which support up to 40 percent of marine life on Earth and provide $6.3 billion to Florida’s economy, are threatened worldwide by ocean acidification and temperature increases, pollution, disease and more. In 2014 alone, 20 coral species were newly declared “threatened” by the federal government — including five species found in the Florida Keys.

For these reasons, the demand for Mote’s work has never been greater. Our scientists lead groundbreaking studies of ocean acidification, and coral diseases, and they have developed innovative methods to restore our coral reefs in our lifetime.

With the pivotal challenges facing coral and the global interest in Mote’s work, we stand at a critical juncture where philanthropic support matters more than ever.

BUILDING AN OUTSTANDING CAPITAL RESOURCE FOR SCIENCE

The Mote research facilities in the Florida Keys are approximately 50 years old and must be replaced with a planned state-of-the-art and environmentally sustainable LEED-certified research and education facility. The new facility will more than double research and education space and include:

• Advanced technology laboratories;

• Ocean acidification research support infrastructure;

• Environmental control rooms;

• New seawater systems;

• Mesocosm experimental tanks and instrumentation to support diverse fields of marine science studies;

• Much needed dormitories, offices, classrooms, meeting rooms and full communication connectivity.

Investing now is a positive step toward a healthier ocean. However, as a nonprofit marine laboratory, Mote can only realize our vision fully with support from our communities.

More than 95% survival after one year

INITIAL – MAY 2013 JUNE 2013 OCTOBER 2013 DECEMBER 2013 APRIL 2014

FLORIDA’S NATURAL TREASURE

Florida’s coral reef is the third largest on the planet and the foundation of one of the world’s most important marine ecosystems.

The reef system stretches about 350 miles from the east coast of Florida in Martin County through the Florida Keys and out to the Dry Tortugas. More than 65% of Florida’s coral reef tract lies within the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary that surrounds the Florida Keys chain of islands

Sadly, the last 40 years have not been kind to our coral reefs and we’ve witnessed losses of more than 90% of our indigenous coral coverage with some species losing more than 97% of their populations.

CORAL RESEARCH

Coral reef restoration is a priority of Mote’s world-class research focused on the conservation and sustainable use of our ocean’s natural resources. As the southernmost marine laboratory in the continental U.S., Mote’s Tropical Research Laboratory, located in Summerland Key, is uniquely positioned to support the combined efforts of Florida and our nation for the study and restoration of coral reef ecosystems.

RESTORATION

Not content to watch corals decline, Mote scientists developed cutting-edge processes to bring them back. Today, we are growing thousands of staghorn

coral fragments in nurseries in the wild using genetic strains that we believe most likely to survive changing ocean conditions.

Our coral nurseries are restoring the reef ecosystem and helping to rebuild a healthy and plentiful population of wild corals that will be able to reproduce on their own.

RESULTS

Over the last five years, our research and restoration programs have yielded amazing results:

• The rate of survival for corals we’ve restored to reefs exceeds 95%;

• These restored corals have now begun to reproduce on their own.

Another exciting breakthrough has been the development of a new coral “re-skinning” process that allows us to restore large areas of reef-building corals in just one to two years — instead of the hundreds or thousands of years it might take nature to build a reef on its own. The cutting-edge technology of re-skinning allows small fragments of brain, boulder and star coral to rapidly fuse back together to form new coral head over the dead skeleton.

This gives us hope that full-scale restoration is possible in our lifetime. Yet now, more than ever before, we find ourselves in need of new facilities to continue our work.

To learn how you can become a part of Oceans of Opportunity: The Campaign for Mote Marine Laboratory and support the organization’s work in the Florida Keys, please contact Campaign Director Jennifer Vigne

at 941-388-4441, ext. 393, or jvigne@mote.org