• Significantly increase our ability to conduct world-class research with an emphasis on marine conservation and sustainable use; • Ensure the long-term prosperity of our research enterprise through focused nextgeneration staff recruitment and professional development; • Translate and transfer our science and technology for the betterment of society and the marine environment; • Provide continued public service to our communities.
Since we implemented our Strategic Plan, we have joined forces with colleagues in Israel and Jordan to address the challenges of ocean acidification and climate change and its predicted impacts on the world’s coral reefs. We have partnered with Japan’s Research Institute for Humanity and Nature to show how scientists can work with grassroots community groups to restore depleted species. Our Marine Biomedical, Immunology and Microbiology Research Programs have taken significant steps in developing potential therapies for human cancer and new antibiotics to fight MRSA. We have grown into 24 distinct research programs and implemented the Mote Postdoctoral Fellowship Program to recruit and mentor future scientific leaders of the world. These are significant steps forward toward achieving our 2020 Vision, but Mote must remain independent with the freedom to nimbly create new opportunities and strengthen our foundation for the future if we are to continue to address the real-world challenges facing our oceans. This is why, during our 60th Anniversary Year, we are pleased to share this updated “Version 2.0” of our 2020 Vision & Strategic Plan. Its core principles and strategic priorities remain the same as those outlined in 2010. However, we now present a refined course of action in our final five-year thrust for achieving, with your support, an excitingly aspirational, yet fully achievable vision for the future. Mote’s 2020 Vision & Strategic Plan incorporates bold goals for growth in the impact of our research enterprise and in our ability to help develop the same passion for the oceans in the public — in you — that we ourselves hold dear. Yet, it is also a vision that is built on the three founding pillars of what has made Mote such an incredibly productive institution for 60 years — passion for our science, partnership with the community and philanthropic support to maintain our independence and freedom in order to address the grand challenges facing our oceans.
8 2020 Vision & Strategic Plan 2.0