Tide Bite – October 2025
In the past several decades there has been an effort to enable more undergraduates to be involved in original research. Having such experience on their resumes makes students stand out and gives them a clear advantage getting into graduate school and other programs.
Read more »Saving a Species: Public Talk on Friday 10/3!
Come hear Drs. Drew Harvell and Jason Hodin speak about their work on the sea star wasting epidemic and what it takes to save a species. The talk will be presented at Brickworks in town on Friday October 3rd, 5-6 pm.
Read more »Cook Positions in the FHL Dining Hall!
Salaried and hourly positions available. If you have questions about the jobs or how to apply to them through the UW Jobs platform, please contact FHL Food Services Manager Megan Connelly.
Read more »Tide Bite – September 2025
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.
Read more »Tide Bite – August 2025
FHL’s “core courses” (which are partially supported by our Marine Life Endowment) include Invertebrate Zoology, Marine Botany, Fishes, and Developmental Biology – each of which is taught in various forms, with different instructors and foci.
Read more »Tide Bite – July 2025
This month’s Tide Bite has a different flavor, written by a student of the arts who spent spring quarter at FHL and has more of a poetic bent than most of our authors.
Read more »Paul Illg Distinguished Lecturer 2025
Dr. Leslie Babonis from Cornell University
Public lecture:
Mon. June 30th
7pm @ Brickworks
“How some stinging cells have lost their sting”
Free of charge, No RSVP, Refreshments to follow.
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Scientific Lecture:
Wed.
Tide Bite – June 2025
Folks who first came to Friday Harbor as students, even decades ago, can likely relate to Taylor’s description of her first experience with the amazing diversity of the local marine flora and fauna intersecting with the deep knowledge of FHL instructors and the excitement of a cohort of students.
Read more »Tide Bite – May 2025
For many of us, one pull toward a career in marine biology is the strong influence of aesthetics: the smell of salt spray on the wind during a storm, the roar and rumble of breaking waves, the colors of pink seaweeds and blue mussels in a tidepool…and nothing illustrates this aesthetic power better than nudibranchs.
Read more »Tide Bite – April 2025
This month’s Tide Bite takes us very far afield, to some near-polar research in northern Japan! The UW linkages within this essay are clear, with the two authors connected to the School of Oceanography.
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