Tide Bites

Tide Bites: Robert F.L. (“Liko”) Self, 1949-2020

Liko Self began his time at UW Friday Harbor Labs shortly after he completed his MS degree in what was then the Department of Oceanography at UW. His curiosity about nature was genuine and deep. Liko…

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Written by Pete Jumars, with Jim Eckman

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Tide Bites: Paying It Forward by Jen Burnaford

My first trip to UW Friday Harbor Labs was in 1995. After completing my undergraduate thesis on freshwater zooplankton and spending a post-bac year chasing primates through the jungles of Borneo, I had been accepted into…

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Written by Jen Burnaford

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Tide Bites: The Virus That Changed the Tree of Life, by Victoria Foe

I came to FHL in 2000 to study cell division, to take advantage of the sea urchins, sea stars and sand dollars whose huge, glassy-clear, permeable and easy-to-manipulate eggs make them ideal subjects for that work.…

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Written by Victoria Foe

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Tide Bites: Boomerang to the San Juans by Alyssa Scott

As the tides of life have ebbed and flowed, I've continually found myself on the shores of FHL. My first encounter with the Labs was via a two-week research sailing expedition through the San Juan Islands…

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Written by Alyssa Scott

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TIDE BITES: What FHL Means to Me by Beth Brainerd

Friday Harbor Lab in the summer of 1985 was both heaven and hell for me. It was mostly heaven: for the first time I was in a community of people who were as passionate about organismal…

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Written by Beth Brainerd

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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 describe the role that McClellan and other faculty and students in geology…

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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 200 taxa across depths at several sites in the San Juan Islands.…

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Written by Derek Smith

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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 I could get my hands on as a kid, I was always…

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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 my career, where I continued to promote interdisciplinary, thematic studies. Outside of…

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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 orange Gonionemus jelly drifts past. On seemingly every surface sit fat bubble…

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Written by Olivia Graham

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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 advisor. Despite not knowing what a kinorhynch was, he agreed to try,…

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Written by Rebecca Varney

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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 of the University of Washington laboratories. It’s the perfect respite from a…

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Written by Aidan Cox

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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 Center cottage through the chilly indigo dawn to turn on the fireplace…

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Written by Jen Burgess

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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, so I have written a book about the impacts of underwater outbreaks,…

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Written by Drew Harvell

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