OUR MISSION: To provide a world-renowned facility that uses research, education, and outreach to expand global understanding and appreciation of the marine environment and its living resources - from genomes to biomes. OUR VISION: To place FHL at the forefront of the University of Washington’s efforts to find solutions to the significant biological and environmental challenges confronting society.
Those of us steeped in traditions of western science – which involves hypothesis testing and is quantitative and unemotional – generally see eelgrass beds as great habitat and sites of high primary productivity, with hopefully an overlay of admiration for gleaming green beauty amid blue water.
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