Tide Bites

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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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 of seahorses, pipefishes, pipehorses, and seadragons. The family occurs worldwide in shallow…

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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 later with commercial overexploitation and human population expansion – have resulted in…

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

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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, but it also helps them to understand the science they are immersed…

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Written by Eric Morel

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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. Because Washington State shellfish growers sell over $77 million of product per…

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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

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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 space.” That’s just it, it’s not ‘just us’ and we’re not alone.…

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Written by Tyler Carrier

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Tide Bites: Barcoding Seaweeds: the Intersection of Teaching and Research

The best science teaching is intimately related to research, and this is why many researchers also teach summer courses at the Friday Harbor Labs. These courses attract the best undergraduate students from across the U.S. and…

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Written by Paul W. Gabrielson and D. Wilson Freshwater

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Tide Bites: ASKXXI: Arts+Science Knowledge - Building and Sharing in the XXI Century

In 2004, under serendipitous circumstances after my first year of graduate school in UW’s Biology Department, I found myself at Friday Harbor Labs taking the Comparative Embryology course taught by Richard Strathmann and George von Dassow.…

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Written by Fernanda X. Oyarzún

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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. Bull kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana) is a large, annual seaweed that is very…

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Written by Katie Dobkowski, PhD

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