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 »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.
Paul Illg Distinguished Public Lecture, August 5, 2024
Monday August 5, 2024
San Juan Community Theatre
7:00pm
We are pleased to announce this year’s Illg Distinguished Lecturer: Dr. Amro Hamdoun
Professor and Associate Director of the Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography of the University of California at San Diego.
FHL OPEN HOUSE – MAY 11, 2019
11 am – 4 pm
Please join us on San Juan Island to explore UW’s internationally-acclaimed marine labs.
Once a year we open our doors and labs to encourage others to come see what we’re doing!
FHL Open House: Saturday, May 20, 2017, 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Come to FHL for our annual Open House!
This free public event offers a splendid opportunity to meet scientists and students at the Labs and to check out the research and teaching facilities.
Crab Team Training March 6
Many of you saw the TideBites article last October that described the Sea Grant program for early detection of the invasive green crab (Carcinus maenas). It was gratifying to me to be on the team that discovered the first green crab in Washington waters.
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