Tide Bites

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

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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

Tide Bites: A Sunflower Star is Born

Among the world's hundreds of types of known starfish (or seastars as I'll call them), our Pacific coast sunflower stars are true record breakers. They are the largest seastar in the world, with an arm-tip-to-arm-tip "wingspan"…

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Written by Jason Hodin

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Tide Bites: A Tale of Two Research Vessels by Megan Dethier

Visitors to UW Friday Harbor Labs in the last nine months – or those perusing our website, which is easier these days – have seen a sweet new research vessel at our dock. The story of…

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Written by Megan Dethier

Tide Bites: Sea Otter Disturbance by Dr. Tiff Stephens

In the summer of 2017, I travelled to FHL for one of my usual short visits of reconnecting with resident scientists and diving into the waters to see how the seaweed communities have changed at favored…

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Written by Dr. Tiff Stephens

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Tide Bites: Students Study Kelp Consumers

Katie Dobkowski is a visiting assistant professor at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine and a mentor in the FHL summer REU program. She earned her PhD from the University of Washington in 2017 and has conducted…

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Written by Katie Dobkowski, James Calhoon, Katrina Johnson and Muriel Dittrich

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TIDE BITES: Enhancing Resilience: a Constant Challenge in a Changing Climate

The ocean speaks a language that is understood globally. It has been the mother tongue for generations of people who base their life’s work on its many offerings. We are privileged to work so intimately with…

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Written by Kirk Sato

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