Tide Bite – September 2024
Most students and researchers at FHL focus, not surprisingly, on marine habitats and organisms. UW also owns a large amount of terrestrial habitat here, on both San Juan and Shaw Islands, and we love it when a class or scientist finds useful research opportunities on these lands.
Read more »Tide Bite – August 2024
Visitors to FHL get to know the key personnel who make a field station run, such as the staff in the office, waterfront, dining, IT, and maintenance departments. But many don’t necessarily know the group of diverse people who collaborate quietly, behind the scenes, with our Advancement staff member to raise funds and friends for FHL.
Read more »Tide Bite – July 2024
Many may think of FHL as the stomping ground of biologists of many stripes, with an occasional physical or chemical oceanographer or biologically-oriented engineer thrown in. But we also have a long tradition of hosting paleontologists, especially those interested in brachiopods, who come here to study modern counterparts of their fossil study organisms.
Read more »Tide Bite – June 2024
In this “different flavor” Tide Bite, Fernanda Oyarzun describes the increasing recognition of the value of crossing the sometimes-hard boundaries between science and art. Such cross-disciplinary work can lead to new creative insights, as she demonstrated at FHL while here last Fall as an Artist-in-Residence.
Read more »Paul Illg Distinguished Public Lecture, August 5, 2024
Monday August 5, 2024
San Juan Community Theatre
7:00pm
We are pleased to announce this year’s Illg Distinguished Lecturer: Dr. Amro Hamdoun
Professor and Associate Director of the Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography of the University of California at San Diego.
Tide Bite – May 2024
One of the challenges for researchers doing field work on San Juan Island is the limited numbers of sites with public shoreline access – and of course the corollary that any place with public access will have a lot of public traffic, making it very hard to do undisturbed observations and experiments.
Read more »Tide Bite – April 2024
Previous issues of Tide Bites have featured “apprentices” from our autumn Pelagic Ecosystem Function research apprenticeship. This is such an inspiring program that we asked two of last quarter’s students, Sarah and Marilyn, to write an essay for us.
Read more »Open House 2024
Saturday, May 18th, 11:00 am – 4:00 pm
Free and open to the community! Guests may meander about the campus and experience touch tanks, science demonstrations, seaweed pressing, a science speaker series, scuba demonstrations, live music by Kubatana Marimba Band, and more!
Tide Bite – March 2024
FHL is proud of its record of hosting many different types of research, from genomics to subtidal ecology. The collaborative work described in this Tide Bite is new for us, but of great potential importance – and a nice example of applied work requiring the wisdom of a basic scientist – in this case, someone capable of identifying algae (not easy!) and understanding their ecology and life histories.
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