FHL is Hiring a New Assistant/Associate Teaching Professor in Marine Biology
We are hiring a new Assistant/Associate Teaching Professor in Marine Biology! This position will be an integral part of the academic team here at FHL. Salary range is $8k-$11k/mo. Please distribute widely!
Read more »Drew Harvell named 2023 U.S. Science Envoy by State Department
We’re quite proud to announce that Dr. Drew Harvell is one of seven researchers named U.S. Science Envoy for 2023 by the U.S. State Department. Congratulations! Drew joined the FHL community as a graduate student and has continued her important work here through Harvell Labs, focusing on diseases in eelgrass, sunflower sea stars, and a variety of other species and ecosystems.
Read more »Nuu-chah-nulth Totem Pole Featured at Fernald Lab’s Entrance
We have a new totem pole installation at the front entryway to Fernald Labs! The carving of this totem is attributed to Wilson Williams, a noted Nuu-chah-nulth (formerly referred to as Nootka) carver who lived on the west coast of Vancouver Island.
Read more »Tide Bite – December 2022
Ross Whippo is one of those FHL “addicts” who return as often as possible as they move through different career stages, with their scientific focus evolving through time. Ross could have written about his research efforts diving in kelp beds, but since we’ve had kelp-focused Tide Bites recently, we asked him to write instead about his seastar work.
Read more »Roadmap to Recovery for the Sunflower Seastar
We’re very proud to host Jason Hodin’s team and Drew Harvell’s team here at the Labs. Check out this Roadmap to Recovery report to learn more about the crucial role Jason and Drew’s teams are playing in a larger effort to combat the decline of sunflower sea stars.
Read more »Spring 2023 Course Applications Open!
The Friday Harbor Labs (FHL) Spring 2023 course applications are now open! You can apply at this link. Y ou can spend 10 weeks on our 500 acre wooded shoreline campus getting your hands dirty while learning marine science and conducting your own research project!
Read more »Tide Bite – November 2022
The San Juan Archipelago is blessed with diverse marine and terrestrial habitats and organisms, but most of the research conducted at the Friday Harbor Labs focuses on the wet and salty side.
Read more »Tide Bite – October 2022
This month’s Tide Bite highlights another research effort that spans the divide between “basic” research into understanding the biology of a marine organism and “applied” research that helps us determine how best to ensure the long-term survival of that organism – in this case, bull kelp.
Read more »Tide Bite – September 2022
Sharks, like few other organisms on earth, hold a broad and deep fascination for humans. In this month’s Tide Bite one of our current postdocs, Lauren Simonitis, describes her research into the (in)famous but remarkably under-studied sense of smell of sharks.
Read more »Tide Bite – August 2022
Celebrating Two FHL Staff Teams
by Megan Dethier & Bernadette Holthuis
If you haven’t spent time at FHL you may not realize that it is a miniature university campus, with its own housing (dorms, cottages, and other units), full-service dining hall, library, and lecture spaces in addition to the lab buildings, research equipment, seawater system, and dock operations.