Tide Bite – January 2025
Often our Tide Bites show the wide reach of FHL, through both space (e.g. Dec. 2024 Tide Bite) and time (e.g. July 2024 Tide Bite). The broad and deep connections of the FHL Family are not only professionally rewarding and fun, such as FHL gatherings at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) meetings each year, but they can also pop up to support current research efforts as described here.
Read more »Tide Bite – December 2024
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It’s a long way, geographically and mentally, from Friday Harbor to Rome. Rome is also notably lacking an ocean, and yet today’s Tide Bite is about a program that takes UW Marine Biology majors (and others) to Rome for a quarter to study “Ecology of the Mediterranean Sea”!
Tide Bite – November 2024
FHL is made remarkable by the people who spend time here. This Tide Bite is about the loss of an important person to the FHL community – but one whose life, like many, intersected with FHL in a variety of ways spanning several decades.
Read more »Tide Bite – October 2024
From Neurons to Genes and Back Again: Lab 2 Renovation
by Director Megan Dethier
Many of FHL’s buildings, including the wet labs along the waterfront, are close to 100 years old.
Tide Bite – September 2024
Most students and researchers at FHL focus, not surprisingly, on marine habitats and organisms. UW also owns a large amount of terrestrial habitat here, on both San Juan and Shaw Islands, and we love it when a class or scientist finds useful research opportunities on these lands.
Read more »Tide Bite – August 2024
Visitors to FHL get to know the key personnel who make a field station run, such as the staff in the office, waterfront, dining, IT, and maintenance departments. But many don’t necessarily know the group of diverse people who collaborate quietly, behind the scenes, with our Advancement staff member to raise funds and friends for FHL.
Read more »Tide Bite – July 2024
Many may think of FHL as the stomping ground of biologists of many stripes, with an occasional physical or chemical oceanographer or biologically-oriented engineer thrown in. But we also have a long tradition of hosting paleontologists, especially those interested in brachiopods, who come here to study modern counterparts of their fossil study organisms.
Read more »Tide Bite – June 2024
In this “different flavor” Tide Bite, Fernanda Oyarzun describes the increasing recognition of the value of crossing the sometimes-hard boundaries between science and art. Such cross-disciplinary work can lead to new creative insights, as she demonstrated at FHL while here last Fall as an Artist-in-Residence.
Read more »Tide Bite – May 2024
One of the challenges for researchers doing field work on San Juan Island is the limited numbers of sites with public shoreline access – and of course the corollary that any place with public access will have a lot of public traffic, making it very hard to do undisturbed observations and experiments.
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