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.
August 2021 Tide Bite
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While most courses that students take at FHL are more traditional science disciplines (biology, oceanography, etc.), one regular offering for undergraduates is the interdisciplinary Science Writing for Diverse Audiences. Graduation requirements for UW Marine Biology majors, as well as other campus science majors, include students taking at least one class in scientific writing, which is an integral part of training for many different career paths.
FHL Tide BiteJune 2021 Tide Bite
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One of the ways that FHL is changing, slowly, is in doing more research that relates to ‘real world’ problems (e.g., see our Sept. 2020 volume on issues relevant to mussel aquaculture).
May 2021 Tide Bite
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Scientists often cannot predict the directions their research will take – it is odd to think that such important decisions might somehow be out of our hands. But not infrequently an unexpected observation or opportunity will pull research into a new exciting direction – it is often the unanticipated results that are the coolest!