Friday Harbor Laboratories has two small collections of preserved, mostly local animals and plants for use as reference by researchers and students.

Synoptic Collection

The Synoptic Collection comprises liquid-preserved animals and plants housed upstairs in Lab 9. For a spreadsheet listing specimens in the collection, follow the link below. If you need additional information regarding this collection, please contact Dr. Craig Staude.

FHL Synoptic Collection Spreadsheet

Herbarium

The FHL Herbarium, housed upstairs in the Fernald Building, comprises over 3,900 algal specimens which have been digitally catalogued with images. The catalogue is accessible via the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria portal managed by the University of Washington.  To view the catalogue of specimens at FHL, click on this link to the portal with query set for the FHL Herbarium:

FHL Herbarium Catalog

For spreadsheets listing subsets of the specimens, follow the links below.

FHLBROW1 – Brown algae (Agarum to Syringoderma)
FHLBROW2 – Brown algae (Nereocyctis to Zonaria)
FHLBROWN – Brown algae (Agarum to Myrionema)
FHLCRUST – Crustose algae
FHLFORN – Foreign algal collections
FHLGREEN – Green algae
FHLRED1 – Red algae (Acrochaetium to Cumagloia)
FHLRED2 – Red algae (Dasya to Myriogramme)
FHLRED3 – Red algae (Nemalion to Porphyra)
FHLRED4 – Red algae (Prionitis to Weeksia)
FHLREDS – Red algae (Acrochaetium to Cumagloia)

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