Tide Bites

Tide Bites: Geology of the San Juan Islands by Darrel Cowan

In 2018, I donated a remarkable color map to Friday Harbor Labs called The San Juan Islands, Washington, by Roy D. McClellan. Here I'll…

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Written by Darrel Cowan

Tide Bites: Subtidal Ecology in the Salish Sea

For more than a decade starting in 2006, the Ken Sebens lab collected data on the distribution and abundance (i.e., ecology) of more than…

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Written by Derek Smith

Tide Bites: Mechanical Defenses in Biology

From the moment I decided I wanted to study at a university, I knew it would be in biology. Reading every book on animals…

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Written by Sebastian Kruppert

Tide Bites: Art Meets Science in Food for Thought Exhibition

I’ve always had a fascination with how art and science intersect. My undergraduate studies focused on natural history, environmental studies and education. Teaching became…

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Written by Robert Dash

Tide Bites: Small Pathogen, Big Range: Latitudinal Variation in Seagrass Wasting Disease in the Pacific Northwest

Not far below the surface of the water, I observe everything around me. Emerald gunnels coiled around eelgrass cautiously eye me, while a vibrant…

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Written by Olivia Graham

Tide Bites: The Wonders of Mud at Friday Harbor Labs

In 1958, a young scientist arrived at Friday Harbor Laboratories supported by a fellowship, with a mission to bring home a kinorhynch for his…

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Written by Rebecca Varney

Tide Bites: Connecting the Dots: An Interview with Dr. Thomas Mumford by Aidan Cox

Under the relentless shine of the midday sun, the Friday Harbor Marina appears to shimmer as we crest a small hill on the edge…

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Written by Aidan Cox

Tide Bites: My Friday Harbor Labs Macfarlane Art Studio Fellowship

Every morning when I was at Friday Harbor Labs last Fall, I would rise with the birds before sunrise and walk from my Whiteley…

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Written by Jen Burgess

Tide Bites: Ocean Outbreaks: from Seagrasses to Seastars

Tiny microbes are on the prowl to undermine the health of our oceans. Epidemics of our ocean biota are often unseen beneath the waves,…

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Written by Drew Harvell

Tide Bites: Pygmy Seahorses – Little Fish With a Big Impact

The family Syngnathidae is a large and diverse group of morphologically unique bony fishes, with 57 genera and 300 described predominantly small-bodied marine species…

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Written by Graham Short

Tide Bites: River Otters in a Land Without Rivers

We live in an interesting time with respect to earth’s ecology. Several centuries of extreme overhunting by humans – first by European colonials and…

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Written by Brent B. Hughes, Postdoctoral Fellow, UW Friday Harbor Labs

Tide Bites: Writing Right There

The Marine Biology Quarter at Friday Harbor Laboratories (FHL) offers a course where students get a chance to write about topics they know matter,…

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Written by Eric Morel

Tide Bites: The search for the dinoflagellate Azadinium, to protect shellfish safety in the Pacific Northwest

Friday Harbor Labs (FHL) scientists are helping a team of international investigators on the trail of several new harmful algal species in Puget Sound.…

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Written by Nicolaus G. Adams and Vera L. Trainer from NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center and Sandy Wyllie-Echeverria Friday Harbor Labs

Tide Bites: We’re Not Alone…and Neither Are Larval Sea Urchins

In the words of Carl Sagan, “The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, it seems like an awful waste of…

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Written by Tyler Carrier