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.
More “Worms” in the World Than Previously Thought
Everything you always wanted to know about the hemichordates, but forgot to ask Billie J. Swalla
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0162564
FHL Ocean Acidification Lab News-worthy!
This article was published last week in The Daily of UW, about FHL and Ocean Acidification. There are many cameos of FHL researchers in this one, so be sure to give it a read.
Read more »Linking the “warm blob” to massive toxic algal bloom in the Pacific Northwest.
Vera Trainer and her team from NOAA have spent many summers at FHL researching this!
Congratulations to the Emily Carrington lab!
Read all about Emily Carrington’s work about the effects of ocean acidification on mussel byssal threads in UW Today!
CBC news
Bob Paine was a co-author on a recent paper led by Cathy Pfister about the changing thickness of mussel shells due to ocean conditions.