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Mote Marine Laboratory is an independent, nonprofit, marine research organization based on City Island in Sarasota, Florida, with additional campuses in eastern Sarasota County, Boca Grande, Florida, and the Florida Keys. Founded in 1955 by Eugenie Clark in Placida, Florida, it was known as the Cape Haze Marine Laboratory until 1967. The ...
At the Cape Haze Marine Laboratory, Clark worked with a local fisherman named Beryl Chadwick, who was experienced in catching sharks. Chadwick was Clark's only assistant at the time of the lab's founding. The lab's first request for shark research came from John H. Hellen, director of the New England Institute for Medical Research. [8]
After receiving her Ph.D. in 1966, Earle spent a year as a research fellow at Harvard, then returned to Florida as the resident director of the Cape Haze Marine Laboratory. [14] Earle was a research associate at the University of California, Berkeley (1969–1981).
The U.S. Postal Service will unveil a Forever stamp honoring "Shark Lady" Eugenie Clark Wednesday, on what would have been her 100th birthday.
In 1955, the Vanderbilt family established the Cape Haze Marine Laboratory in Placida, Florida and placed it under the direction of Eugenie Clark. Clark oversaw the movement of the laboratory from Placida to Siesta Key in 1960. [2] By 1965, however, Clark decided to resign her directorship for personal reasons and the position was open to fill.
In 2020, the National Marine Fisheries Service put a midwater trawler exclusion zone of 20 miles around Cape Cod. The restricted area was implemented but the rule was subsequently vacated by a ...
The team at IFAW has responded to 342 live dolphins stranded on Cape Cod so far in 2024, five times their annual average of 67 live dolphins. 'Exhausted.' Marine mammal strandings on rise on Cape.
Cape Haze is a peninsula located in Charlotte County, Florida, that is approximately 30 miles (48 km) long. [ 2 ] [ better source needed ] It has an elevation of 7 feet (2.1 m). [ 1 ] It includes the Wildflower Preserve , once used as a golf course, and the Cape Haze Pioneer Trail .