Tide Bite – December 2025

Meet the Waterfront Staff
by Megan Dethier
Perhaps the two most important things for a high-functioning marine lab are an excellent seawater system and some kind of boat fleet.  As any boat owner knows, boats (and places to keep them) are a handful – FHL has a small but mighty waterfront team who look after this very important facet of our operations.  

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.  

Tide Bite – August 2023

The Dining Hall & Kitchen: Heart of the FHL Campus
by Megan Dethier, FHL Director
A year ago we celebrated via Tide Bite the hard work and great attitudes of two essential FHL teams: the Maintenance and Custodial staffs.  

Tide Bite – August 2022

Celebrating Two FHL Staff Teams
by Megan Dethier & Bernadette Holthuis
If you haven’t spent time at FHL you may not realize that it is a miniature university campus, with its own housing (dorms, cottages, and other units), full-service dining hall, library, and lecture spaces in addition to the lab buildings, research equipment, seawater system, and dock operations.   

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.