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.
Tide Bite – July 2022
The Tide Bite below beautifully illustrates a number of ‘essence of FHL’ phenomena. Cassandra tells us how she first came to the Labs and then returned repeatedly while rising through academia.
Read more »Tide Bite – June 2022
While most research at FHL focuses appropriately on marine organisms and local field sites, the essay below illustrates how profoundly powerful it can be to do comparative biology – in this case, drawing connections between the development of crustaceans like barnacles and shrimp, and insects like fruit flies.
Read more »FHL Open House 2022
We are hosting an Open House May 21st, 2022 from 11am to 4pm that is free and open to the community. Guests can meander about the campus to experience live music by Kubatana Marimba Band, face painting, touch tanks, science demonstrations, seaweed pressing, a science speaker series, scuba demonstrations, and much more!
Read more »Tide Bite – May 2022
The essay below shows that at FHL we ‘do’ birds, too! At least two of our classes each year spend some time studying seabirds or sea-associated birds, like the kingfishers described below.
Read more »Tide Bite – April 2022
In recent months we have had Tide Bites about boats, mud, oceanography, history, fog, octopus…but none can rival the cuteness of the little fish discussed in Ella’s essay below. Some of us see these animals as an example of Natural Selection having a sense of humor – a little round fish with a suit of armor, really?
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