What is Mote doing?
Mote Marine Laboratory scientists have been busy performing a number of tasks that we believe are especially critical at this time: • We have expanded our Beach Conditions Report system to include oil spill impacts on 33 beaches on Florida’s west coast. As it has during the Florida red tides that led to its creation, this system continues to prove itself as an important source of credible, real-time information for the public. We are working to refine this reporting system so it provides a better snapshot of oil impacts and are also seeking funding to expand this system so that we receive reports from all of Florida’s 165 major beaches. • Another reporting system that Mote has in place is the Marine Ecosystem Event Response and Assessment Project, or MEERA. MEERA provides early detection and assessment of biological events occurring in the Florida Keys and surrounding waters. Should the oil spill affect the Florida Keys, that information will be included in the MEERA reports. • Mote sc
