The laboratory celebrated its 55th anniversary during 2010, and was recognized for its marine science with a resolution in the Florida House and Senate during March 2010. During March 2010 Eugenie Clark was inducted into the Florida Women's Hall of Fame. When the laboratory celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2015, it unveiled its first multi-year, comprehensive fundraising effort, "Oceans of Opportunity: the Campaign for Mote Marine Laboratory". Clark was still working as senior scientist, director emerita, and trustee at the laboratory when she died in February 2015.