September 2019 Tide Bite
Greetings,
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
Greetings,
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.
May 2019 Tide Bite
Hello FHL Family and Friends,
Please mark your calendars for the annual FHL Open House, to be held on May 11, 2019! This is the time each year when we open FHL and our research and teaching labs to the public, so come and explore the exciting marine research going on at UW Friday Harbor Laboratories.
April 2019 Tide Bite
Dear FHL Friends and Family,
After a cold and snowy February, spring came to San Juan Island in March with some gorgeous sunny days and balmy weather. We look forward to the UW Marine Biology majors and other students arriving on April 1, no joke!
March 2019 Tide Bite
Dear FHL Friends and Family,
February 2019 brought lots of snow to San Juan Island and we do not have the equipment to deal with it well here, so we had to wait until warmer weather and rain came to melt it.
February 2019 Tide Bite
Dear FHL Friends and Family,
This month we have a Tide Bite that describes truly interdisciplinary research between two of our wonderful graduate students working at Friday Harbor Laboratories. Read what can happen when you have two students who are studying very different topics that decide to collaborate on a project together.
January 2019 Tide Bite
Happy Holidays to all of our FHL Family and Friends!
2018 has been a year of highs and lows at Friday Harbor Laboratories. We’ve seen some wonderful emerging research, such as the marine studies made possible with the OceanGate submersible and the SeaDoc Society, and we look forward to the possibilities of future years.
November 2018 Tide Bite
Dear FHL Friends and Family,
It is with great sorrow that we share the death of the brilliant scientist Osamu Shimomura, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2008 for the discovery and isolation of green fluorescent protein (GFP).