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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. 

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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.  

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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.  

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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.  

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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.  

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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! 

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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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Tide Bite – February 2024

The Story of the Totem Pole
by Megan Dethier and Joshua L. Reid (Snohomish)
For those who haven’t been to FHL in the last 2 years, an amazing item now graces the entryway of the Fernald Building: a gorgeous totem pole.   

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