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?
Read more »Seminar this week – Dr. Juliet Crider visiting from UW Earth and Space Sciences
Our seminar this week is “The initiation and evolution of fault zones in basalt” by Dr. Juliet Crider who is visiting FHL from UW Earth and Space Sciences.
She will arrive around 11:00AM and will eat lunch in the dining hall with the FHL graduate students.
November 2016 Tide Bite
This month’s Tide Bite is by Daniel Geldof titled “Big fish, small pond: An atypical development strategy in a local fish species — no bones, all bulk!”
FHL Seminar 10/26: Ghosts of Ocean Past
FHL Seminar – Wednesday, October 26
4:00 – 5:00 p.m. in the Commons
Our seminar speaker this week is Chelsea Wood. Chelsea is a newly hired Assistant Professor in SAFS in the College of the Environment at UW and we are looking forward to meeting her and hearing about her research on Wednesday.
Major new initiatives for Puget Sound recovery
This is wonderful news for Puget Sound and for FHL!
We look forward to being a part of this ecosystem recovery in the coming years!
Recent FHL Postdoc published in Copeia
Congratulations to Nick Gidmark, former FHL postdoc and Dan Geldof, on their paper published in Copeia! Well done!
Read at CopeiaRobomussels Make the New York Times
Congratulations to Brian Helmuth, Sarah Gilman, Michael O’Donnell, Mike Nishizaki and Emily Carrington for their recent paper on robomussels!!
Read more »Special Lecture Tonight
Special lecture tonight (Friday, October 14, 2016), and citizen-science training workshops Saturday and Sunday if you are interested:
Seabirds, Citizen Science and Saving the World — a talk by JULIA PARRISH, University of Washington School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences, Executive Director of COASST
Friday, October 14, 2016 7:00 pm
Friday Harbor Laboratories – Commons
620 University Road, Friday Harbor, WA 98250
In 2009, thousands of Surf Scoters washed ashore along the outer coast of WA.