Tide Bite – February 2025

Three Faces of FHL: the Front Office Staff
by Director Megan Dethier
The relative calm of winter quarter at FHL is a great time to tell our readers about more of the essential people who make FHL run so smoothly.  

CANCELLED: Annual Open House

Cancelled for now.  It’s possible we’ll reschedule this for early Oct, stay tuned!
Sat May 16, 11 am – 4 pm

Please join us on San Juan Island to explore UW’s internationally-acclaimed marine labs. 

Upcoming Summer 2017 Events at FHL

Paul Illg Distinguished Lectureship
Dr. Lauren Mullineaux, a biological oceanographer, Senior Scientist and Chair of the Biology Department at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, will present two lectures.

Public lecture: Monday June 26, 7pm San Juan Community Theater, “Are deep-sea hydrothermal vent communities resilient to disturbance?”
Scientific lecture: Wednesday June 28, 7pm FHL Commons, “Larval behavior in response to cues in a dynamic ocean.”

Koz Fest
Please join us for a memorial celebration of Gene Kozloff at FHL on Saturday July 29, 3pm-6. 

50th Anniversary NWDBC at FHL

This week we have the 50th Anniversary of the Northwest Developmental Biology Conference at FHL.  The regional conference was started in 1967, by Arthur Whiteley, a UW Biology Professor,  continued for nearly 30 years by Lynn Riddifiord (UW Biology) with a Developmental Biology Training Grant from NIH, and has been continued by the Seattle Developmental Biology Group since then. 

Adam Summers at UW Lunch and Learn in the Desert

Adam Summers is the College of the Environment’s keynote speaker at the 2017 Lunch and Learn In the Desert event taking place today, March 8, in Rancho Mirage, CA.  This annual event draws many Husky Alums and UW friends. 

Eugene Nicholas Kozloff (1920 – 2017)

So sad to share the news that Eugene Kozloff passed away at Lighthouse Memory Care in Anacortes yesterday.
Among his many achievements, Koz came to the UW FHL in 1966 and remained here until 2007. 

Past FHL Postdoc Robin Kodner in News

Robin Kodner filmed a segment for Oregon Public Broadcasting Field Guide program on bioluminescence back when she was a postdoc fellow at FHL. Parts of it were filmed at FHL. 

Shawn Luttrell makes national news for research on worm regeneration

Shawn Luttrell was on King 5 News on Wednesday night!
Video link here.
The story was in UW Today, and later picked up by the Huffington Post, The Daily Mail and others.   

Seminar this week – Dr. Juliet Crider visiting from UW Earth and Space Sciences

Our seminar this week is “The initiation and evolution of fault zones in basalt” by Dr. Juliet Crider who is visiting FHL from UW Earth and Space Sciences.
She will arrive around 11:00AM and will eat lunch in the dining hall with the FHL graduate students. 

Linking the “warm blob” to massive toxic algal bloom in the Pacific Northwest.

Vera Trainer and her team from NOAA have spent many summers at FHL researching this!