March 2017 Tide Bite
It’s been a tough month for all of us here at FHL, and winter is lingering: we had snow falling at least three separate times in February. We are not used to snow on San Juan Island, so we tough it out until it melts, but it’s disruptive.
FHL Tide BitePast FHL Postdoc Robin Kodner in News
Robin Kodner filmed a segment for Oregon Public Broadcasting Field Guide program on bioluminescence back when she was a postdoc fellow at FHL. Parts of it were filmed at FHL.
Read more at opb.orgCrab Team Training March 6
Many of you saw the TideBites article last October that described the Sea Grant program for early detection of the invasive green crab (Carcinus maenas). It was gratifying to me to be on the team that discovered the first green crab in Washington waters.
Read more »February 2017 Tide Bite
This month’s Tide Bite outlines Adam Summers’ quest to scan every species of fish in the world here at FHL in the new Karel F. Liem Bio-Imaging Center. Adam gives an overview about the Center, then two students describe their research and how it was advanced by a trip to FHL to scan their fish species.
Read MoreE. S. Morse U.S./Japan Exchange – 2017 Misaki Marine Biological Station Open Practical Course
Here is an opportunity for undergraduate or graduate students:
Apply to take the 2017 Misaki Marine Biological Station Open Practical Course –Biology of Marine Animals – Fertilization, Development and Regeneration
Applications due February 3 for the course from Feb.
Adam Summers to scan every fish by making ‘fish burritos’
Adam P. Summers describes his “fish burrito” that has greatly increased the number of fish that can be scanned at once. Beautiful images of fish!
Read More at kcts9.orgJanuary 2017 Tide Bite
Happy New Year!!
Our 2017 New Year’s Tide Bite is written by a scientific illustrator, Andrea Dingeldein, who did her internship at FHL in the summer of 2016. Read about how scientific illustrators can be critical to scientific communication, and enjoy her creative drawing of three sea urchin species on the 2017 FHL Bulletin cover, which you should have received in the mail in mid-December.
Shawn Luttrell makes national news for research on worm regeneration
Shawn Luttrell was on King 5 News on Wednesday night!
Video link here.
The story was in UW Today, and later picked up by the Huffington Post, The Daily Mail and others.
December 2016 Tide Bite
Happy Holidays! Enjoy the last month in 2016, and look forward to a new year!
TOGETHER:
The theme for the current UW campaign is TOGETHER, and I think often of how much more can be accomplished when people work together than when they are at odds with one another.
Science & Poetry Workshop this weekend – All invited
This coming weekend is the annual Science & Poetry Workshop– a general symposium of like-and-various-minded souls who’ll gather for presentations, readings, impromptu convivialities, field excursions, and maybe an occasional trickle of wine, just to earn the symposial rubric?
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