Tide Bite – July 2025
This month’s Tide Bite has a different flavor, written by a student of the arts who spent spring quarter at FHL and has more of a poetic bent than most of our authors.
Read more »Paul Illg Distinguished Lecturer 2025
Dr. Leslie Babonis from Cornell University
Public lecture:
Mon. June 30th
7pm @ Brickworks
“How some stinging cells have lost their sting”
Free of charge, No RSVP, Refreshments to follow.
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Scientific Lecture:
Wed.
Tide Bite – June 2025
Folks who first came to Friday Harbor as students, even decades ago, can likely relate to Taylor’s description of her first experience with the amazing diversity of the local marine flora and fauna intersecting with the deep knowledge of FHL instructors and the excitement of a cohort of students.
Read more »Tide Bite – May 2025
For many of us, one pull toward a career in marine biology is the strong influence of aesthetics: the smell of salt spray on the wind during a storm, the roar and rumble of breaking waves, the colors of pink seaweeds and blue mussels in a tidepool…and nothing illustrates this aesthetic power better than nudibranchs.
Read more »Tide Bite – April 2025
This month’s Tide Bite takes us very far afield, to some near-polar research in northern Japan! The UW linkages within this essay are clear, with the two authors connected to the School of Oceanography.
Read more »Custodial Openings at FHL!
FHL is looking for someone to join our custodial team in part-time or full-time capacity. Priority given to applications submitted by March 31st.
Prospective applicants are encouraged to apply to fulltime, part-time, or both positions, based on your availability, by March 31st.
Read more »May 3: Open House 2025!
FHL invites the community to visit the Labs on Saturday, May 3rd, to see what we do here!
Read more »Tide Bite – March 2025
Meg Vandenberg is another example of a student who came to UW Friday Harbor Labs to take a course, uncertain about her future, and ended up finding her life niche! When people talk about “transformative” experiences at marine stations, this is a fairly common kind of transformation.
Read more »Tide Bite – February 2025
Three Faces of FHL: the Front Office Staff
by Director Megan Dethier
The relative calm of winter quarter at FHL is a great time to tell our readers about more of the essential people who make FHL run so smoothly.
Tide Bite – January 2025
Often our Tide Bites show the wide reach of FHL, through both space (e.g. Dec. 2024 Tide Bite) and time (e.g. July 2024 Tide Bite). The broad and deep connections of the FHL Family are not only professionally rewarding and fun, such as FHL gatherings at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) meetings each year, but they can also pop up to support current research efforts as described here.
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