Tide Bite – June 2023
Often, scientific advances are made when new methods are used to tackle old problems, like using modern genomics methods to study cancers. This essay by Allie Tissot takes the opposite approach, using old methods (tried and true larval culturing techniques) to study new problems: impacts of modern aquatic contaminants on organisms.
Read more »Open House 2023
Saturday, May 13th, 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 – May 2023
This Tide Bite is a bit different from most, in focusing less on a student or researcher’s work at FHL and more on how the ‘convening power’ of FHL can lead to wonderful brainstorming opportunities.
Read more »Tide Bite – April 2023
FHL Fundraising: Past and Future
by Megan Dethier (with shared details from Rachel Anderson)
This Tide Bite celebrates our fundraising teams over the decades and honors the retirement of an amazing staff member, our Associate Director for Advancement, Rachel Anderson.
Tide Bite – March 2023
I have a special place in my heart for seaweeds – one of the first family photos presaging my life as a marine biologist shows me eating seaweed in Maine at the age of 2.
Read more »FHL Associate Director of Advancement, Rachel Anderson, Retiring
Almost everyone who has been to FHL in the last 20 years, and many folks from earlier decades, know our amazing Associate Director for Advancement, Rachel Anderson. They say that all good things must end… and we are seeing that today with it being Rachel’s last day at FHL as she heads into retirement.
Read more »Tide Bite – February 2023
People often tell us that spending a quarter or a summer at Friday Harbor Labs as a student or intern was “life changing” or “transformative” for them. Not uncommonly students who plan to head for a different career such as medical school come to FHL, find a new passion, and decide to study some facet of marine science instead.
Read more »Host your next UW event at Friday Harbor Labs
Looking for a UW facility for quiet scholarly work, a lab meeting, office gathering or departmental retreat? The Friday Harbor Labs (FHL), in the beautiful San Juan Islands, has housing and meeting spaces available October to April with discounted rates for UW budgets.
Read more »FHL Summer 2023 Applications Open!
Applications for Friday Harbor Lab’s Summer 2023 courses are now open! We have 6 courses offered between Summer A and B in the sunny, beautiful San Juan Islands.
Apply by March 1st at 11:59pm PST.
Read more »Tide Bite – January 2023
Most people are aware of the concept of invasive species – plants or animals that don’t “belong” in a given area and end up disrupting the local ecology in many ways.
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