Tide Bite – April 2026
The following essay is both sad – as it follows the passing of a long-term and cherished colleague – and uplifting, as it celebrates his years of contributing at FHL and to marine science education.
Read more »Tide Bite – March 2026
Undergraduate Education at FHL: The Team Behind the Transformation
by Megan Dethier, Maia Kreis and Mar Wonham
Megan Dethier, the Purpose and the People:
A core part of the FHL mission is education – of undergraduate students, graduate students and lifelong learners.
Tide Bite – February 2026
Eelgrass research is an important part of the ecological work done at FHL, as reported in various previous Tide Bites (e.g., volumes 145, 125, 94) by scientists working on wasting disease, ecology, and restoration efforts.
Read more »Tide Bite – January 2026
Few invertebrates, terrestrial or marine, capture the human imagination as much as cephalopods, especially octopus. There’s something about those big eyes, those many arms, those remarkable behaviors…
In this essay, Willem connects the dots (the suckers?) between eyes, arms, behaviors — to explain how octopuses sense and process their world in unique ways.
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 – November 2025
At FHL we try hard to both honor our past by maintaining our core strengths and adapt to the needs of the FHL community. An example is the summer teaching program.
Read more »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 »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.
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