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?
Read more »March 2022 Tide Bite
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We wrote ~a year ago (Feb. 2021 Tide Bite) about our two most recent research vessels, the R/Vs Centennial and Kittiwake. Here are tales about the FHL boats that preceded those two: almost 120 years of research vessels, described by our unofficial historian and some of the boat operators and users!
February 2022 Tide Bite
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Last month’s Tide Bite was about a new apprenticeship course, starting from scratch to seek an understanding of the False Bay ecosystem. This month’s describes a well-established apprenticeship, one of the first offered at FHL and definitely the longest-running.
FHL Tide BiteJanuary 2022 Tide Bite
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One of the criteria for choosing courses that we offer at FHL is that they take advantage of the natural surroundings, i.e. they couldn’t just as well be taught on the Seattle campus or in Nebraska or New York.
FHL Tide BiteDecember 2021 Tide Bite
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This is FHL’s 100th Tide Bite! To mark this milestone, we asked Dennis Willows to write an essay covering some of FHL’s long and rich history (of which he was a big part, as Director for 32 years).
November 2021 Tide Bite
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Few members of the general public are interested in crabs (except to eat) or slugs (except as garden pests) or worms (except a general “eewww” response), but almost everyone finds octopuses to be genuinely engaging invertebrates.
FHL Tide BiteOctober 2021 Tide Bite
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While most research at FHL for its 110+ years has focused on marine organisms and habitats — especially seaweeds, invertebrates and fishes — a generous donation in the last year has allowed us to “expand the tent.” We offered fellowships to “new” scientists who have never worked at FHL but who are faculty at UW or other institutions to come and work here for several weeks or months to see if this is a location where their research can be effectively accomplished.
FHL Tide BiteSeptember 2021 Tide Bite
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For centuries, methods for biologists to learn about the ‘innards’ of whole organisms involved dissections of dead specimens. This is still an essential tool, but now we have added wonderful new methods to our toolbox.