Tide Bites

Tide Bites: It's Hard Out There For A Kelp

Worldwide, kelp forests are ecologically important because they provide habitat and a food source for a wide variety of organisms including invertebrates and fish.…

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Written by Katie Dobkowski, PhD

Tide Bites: Bacterial Responses to Ocean Acidification

Ocean acidification, resulting from an increase in atmospheric CO2, is a growing concern as it is projected to impact all ocean regions and affect…

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Written by Lisa Crummet Assistant Professor of Biology at Soka University of America in Aliso Viejo, CA.

Tide Bites: Edward Sylvester Morse, 1838-1925 Part of his Legacy: a Shared Japan/U.S. Scholar Exchange Program at FHL

Edward Sylvester Morse (1838-1925) was a greatly admired scientist and educator both in the United States and Japan. In the limited time he spent…

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Written by M. Patricia Morse, Ph.D. UW Professor of Biology (retired), Friday Harbor Laboratories

Tide Bites: Hydrogen Sulfide: Bad actor behind seagrass decline?

Zostera marina, commonly known as “eelgrass,” is a submerged flowering plant that grows in many estuarine and coastal regions of the Northern Hemisphere and…

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Written by Soren Huber, Fredrick Dooley, and Sandy Wyllie-Echeverria

Tide Bites: Exposure History Determines the Response of the Orange Cup Coral (Balanophyllia elegans) to Ocean Acidification

Humans are drastically changing the planet by burning fossil fuels that release CO2 into the atmosphere, which comes into equilibrium with the ocean and…

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Written by Joanna Griffiths

Tide Bites: What Happens to San Juan Sea Urchins in the Absence of Predatory Sea Stars?

- Investigating the Relationships Between Baby Green Urchins, Coralline Algae, and Crabs Sea urchins (Figure 1) are an important component of nearshore marine food…

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Written by Dara Yiu

Tide Bites: Providing undergraduate students with the thrill of discovery: FHL Blinks/NSF REU/BEACON Summer Internships

The young students finished their talks in the FHL Commons, and the room cheered. Another successful conclusion of the FHL Blinks/NSF REU/BEACON Summer Internships,…

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Written by UW Friday Harbor Laboratories staff

Tide Bites: Fidalgo Bay Submerged: A landscape analysis perspective

Fidalgo Bay is a shallow emBayment in northwestern Skagit County, Washington. Spanning roughly 1,600 acres (6.4 km2) of sand and gravel beaches, mudflats and…

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Written by Soren Huber, Gary Greene, Sandy Wyllie-Echeverria, Olivia Graham, Todd Woodard, John Aschoff, and Norman Maher

Tide Bites: Red rock crabs: the Dungeness' grouchy cousins

Native red rock crabs (Cancer productus) are important predators on protected rocky nearshore communities from Alaska to Baja California. While they are harvested recreationally,…

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Written by Sylvia Yamada and Scott Groth

Tide Bites: Scanning All Fish!

Recently, FHL became home to the Karel F. Liem Bio-Imaging Center. The centerpiece of the shared research facility is a very capable micro-source CT…

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Written by Adam Summers, with Kory Evans-Jackson and Malorie Hayes

Tide Bites: Sketching Science in the San Juans

When you have a question about something you see in nature, a research scientist provides you with an answer in words. My explanation, on…

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Written by Andrea Dingeldein

Tide Bites: An Intertidal Compass!

When you are trying to find your way home from a new place, you probably reach for your phone or GPS to ask for…

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Written by Julia Sigwart

Tide Bites: Big fish, small pond: An atypical development strategy in a local fish species — no bones, all bulk!

Marine fishes usually start life with a larval phase, during which they are known as ichthyoplankton. Tiny and typically transparent, these animals experience an…

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Written by Daniel Geldof

Tide Bites: First European green crab in Washington’s Salish Sea

“Sylvia, I think we caught one!” Craig Staude shouted excitedly as he and his team of volunteers opened a baited trap in a tidal…

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Published in Tide Bites
Written by Sylvia Yamada and Craig Staude