Tide Bites

Tide Bites: Searching for Sea Squirts by Megan Powers

INTRODUCTION by Dr. Megan Dethier, FHL Director Most people are aware of the concept of invasive species – plants or animals that don’t “belong” in a given area and end up disrupting the local ecology in…

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Written by Megan Powers

Tide Bites: Effects of ocean warming on Bull Kelp forests by Brooke Weigel

INTRODUCTION by Dr. Megan Dethier, FHL Director 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…

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Written by Dr. Megan Dethier

Tide Bites: Celebrating 2 Friday Harbor Labs staff teams

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…

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Written by Megan Dethier & Bernadette Holthuis

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Tide Bite – BIO-INSPIRATION by Cassandra Donatelli

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. Not everyone thrives at field…

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Written by Cassandra Donatelli

TIDE BITES: “Perfectly fascinated by Metamorphosis" by Jim Truman and Lynn Riddiford

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…

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Written by Jim Truman and Lynn Riddiford

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Tide Bites: What the Belted Kingfisher families of San Juan Island taught us

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. These classes include the…

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Written by Hannah Booth, Maria Kuruvilla, and Laurel Yruretagoyena

Tide Bites: A Short History of Friday Harbor Labs Research Vessels

Boats have been an integral part of Friday Harbor Laboratories since June 1904 when Professors Kincaid and Frye, several assistants, and a dozen students arrived in Friday Harbor over several days on Mosquito Fleet steamers. Their…

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Written by Claudia Mills, Gordon Robilliard, Craig Staude, David Duggins

Tide Bites: Immersive Learning Supports Undergraduate Research in Watershed and Estuarine Ecology

The UW False Bay preserve has been an important site for FHL field trips and research efforts for decades, but with few attempts to link these efforts or create a long-term database as exists for other…

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Written by Wendel Raymond and Brooke Sullivan

Tide Bites: Curious Minds, by Dominic Sivitilli

The lab was buzzing with excitement when I arrived. A few weeks into the summer term, the water tables of Lab 3 were teeming with invertebrate life. All varieties of morphology and behavior were on display…

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Written by Dominic Sivitilli

Tide Bites: Vancouver, Darwin, Hoyle and the FHL Discovery of the Largest Known Muscle Cells, by Dennis Willows

This story begins at the Friday Harbor Laboratories, on a brand-new apartment deck overlooking Friday Harbor in summer 1963. An international crowd of scientists and a few of their grad students were invited by UC Santa…

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Written by Dennis Willows

Tide Bites: Friday Harbor Fog by Jessica Lundquist

My family and I arrived at Friday Harbor Labs on June 26, 2021, just before Seattle recorded its hottest day on record (42°C or 108°F at Sea-Tac on June 28). We came to study coastal fog…

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Written by Jessica Lundquist

Tide Bites: Transformative Tools and Integrative Imaging by Karly Cohen

I have had the opportunity to study a diversity of structures and critters – from teeth and body armor like tough scales, to softer tissues like lips and the discs of fishes that suck onto surfaces.…

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Written by Karly Cohen

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Tide Bites: Kairos & the Ghost of FHL: Writing in the Moment, by Holly Shelton

Dr. Holly Shelton holds a PhD from the University of Washington in language and rhetoric along with MA degrees in Applied Linguistics and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. She has taught in Chile, Turkey,…

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Written by Holly Shelton

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Tide Bites: Seeding the Salish Sea: First Steps of an Eelgrass Restoration Project

Disappearance of eelgrass ( Zostera marina) might seem like a trivial topic to some, but it is actually quite a concerning phenomenon. Marine organisms and humans alike rely on the multitude of ecosystem services provided by…

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Written by Elizabeth Nilles, Michael Ramsey and Sandy Wyllie-Echeverria