April 2020 Tide Bite
Greetings,
This month’s Tide Bite chronicles a not-that-unusual career progression for Friday Harbor Labs’ scientists: going from a student in a course, to a student doing their own research, to teaching here themselves, to having their own graduate students come to learn the trade!
March 2020 Tide Bite
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This month’s Tide Bite describes the research of a PhD student who spent most of his graduate career at FHL, becoming part of the Labs and island communities. This is a challenge because opportunities for funding here are limited, and while graduate students are famous for living on air, water, and ramen noodles, they still need to survive!
February 2020 Tide Bite
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Most readers are aware that FHL has been connected for over a century with marine biological and oceanographic work in the San Juan Islands. Fewer may know that there has been almost a century of geological work done here too, most of it with UW connections.
January 2020 Tide Bite
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Our first Tide Bite of the new year describes some work done below the tides here in the San Juans: a long-term monitoring effort on the status of communities of seaweeds and invertebrates attached to the rocky walls that characterize most of the channels between our islands.
December 2019 Tide Bite
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This month’s Tide Bite describes the experiences of a more advanced student than some of our other stories, which have often chronicled the adventures of undergraduates and graduate students. Sebastian is a postdoc who shares the love of field stations, marine organisms, and San Juan Island that many others have expressed.
November 2019 Tide Bite
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This month’s Tide Bite highlights the blending of art and science – two fields that might seem at odds, but not at FHL! We encourage these cross-disciplinary interactions, including Adam Summers’ work mentioned below and in previous events that combined poets, writers and marine scientists.
September 2019 Tide Bite
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This month’s Tide Bites describes a lovely story of biological serendipity and the enormous value of our scholarship program. For over 100 years, students have been getting swept up in the passion of studying live marine organisms and their habitats while based at FHL.
August 2019 Tide Bite
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With this 72nd Tide Bite I am delighted to continue the tradition that Billie Swalla started in 2013. I am the Interim Director at FHL; if you’d like to read a bit more about my background and philosophy, you can do so here.
July 2019 Tide Bite: A Director’s Farewell
July 1, 2019 marks the end of Billie Swalla’s 6.5 years at the helm of FHL. This Tide Bite strays from our traditional format to be a thoughtful reflection by Billie on her time as Director, with a look toward the bright future of FHL.
FHL Tide BiteJune 2019 Tide Bite
Hello FHL Family and Friends,
We welcome the warm June weather and the end of the spring quarter, and are preparing for FHL’s busy summer season. This Tide Bite is by Jen Burgess, the first recipient of FHL’s Macfarlane Art Studio Fellowship, made possible by a very generous donation from our supportive donors Jan and Robbie Macfarlane.