News and Events | Friday Harbor Laboratories

Aug 25, 2025 | Citizen Science, Publications, Tide Bite

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.

Jul 25, 2025 | Publications, Tide Bite

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.

Jun 24, 2025 | Publications, Tide Bite

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.

May 27, 2025 | Publications, Tide Bite

Tide Bite – June 2025

Folks who first came to Friday Harbor as students, even decades ago, can likely relate to Taylor’s description of her first experience with the amazing diversity of the local marine flora and fauna intersecting with the deep knowledge of FHL instructors and the excitement of a cohort of students.

Apr 22, 2025 | Publications, Tide Bite

Tide Bite – May 2025

For many of us, one pull toward a career in marine biology is the strong influence of aesthetics: the smell of salt spray on the wind during a storm, the roar and rumble of breaking waves, the colors of pink seaweeds and blue mussels in a tidepool…and nothing illustrates this aesthetic power better than nudibranchs.

Mar 21, 2025 | Publications, Tide Bite

Tide Bite – April 2025

This month’s Tide Bite takes us very far afield, to some near-polar research in northern Japan! The UW linkages within this essay are clear, with the two authors connected to the School of Oceanography.

Feb 25, 2025 | Publications, Tide Bite

Tide Bite – March 2025

Meg Vandenberg is another example of a student who came to UW Friday Harbor Labs to take a course, uncertain about her future, and ended up finding her life niche! When people talk about “transformative” experiences at marine stations, this is a fairly common kind of transformation.

Jan 25, 2025 | People, Publications, Tide Bite

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.

Dec 20, 2024 | Publications, Tide Bite

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.

Nov 25, 2024 | Publications, Tide Bite

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”!