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with related species; this evolutionary phenomenon is called ‘paedomorphosis.’ Jonathan also discovered that while there are many different scale-feeding fishes, these species use very different means to succeed with this bizarre feeding strategy. He and I have submitted this project as a manuscript to Evolutionary Ecology for review and publication.

Friday Harbor Labs also hosts a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program and I had the pleasure of mentoring two students this year, Darby Finnegan (Western Washington University 2020) and Benjamin Nicholas (Oregon

State University 2018). Both students used anatomical data collected with the CT scanner to investigate how some fishes evolved to fill new niches when they invaded freshwater habitats from the oceans millions of years ago. Darby examined how feeding structures evolved in sculpins, which are a common Pacific Northwest family of fishes that

are also common across Eurasia – most notably in Lake Baikal, the deepest freshwater lake in the world (a Siberian lake with hydrothermal vents!). Ben looked at how the transition from marine to freshwater habitats has altered the tempo of evolution in pufferfishes: poisonous inflatable fishes with beaks, which have one of the smallest vertebrate genomes.

These are just three examples of some of the fantastic student science that has happened here at FHL in 2017. What is also remarkable about the students is that we are sending thirteen of them to this year’s Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology conference in San Francisco, where they are all presenting their FHL research. Nearly all these projects will be written as manuscripts and submitted to scientific journals over the coming months, highlighting the incredible opportunities that immersive research programs like those at FHL can offer to young people. n

It’s been nearly two years since FHL purchased its own in-house CT scanner, the Bruker Skyscan 1173. The acquisition was made possible through the generosity of private donors, family foundations, several departments at the University of Washington, and UW’s College of the Environment and College of Arts and Sciences. When Beth Brainerd and Adam Summers established the FHL Karel Liem Bioimaging Facility, they envisioned a lab where researchers could use the new scanner free of charge. We’ve since scanned over 2500 species of fish and hosted researchers from all over the world. Adam is co-PI of a new collaborative NSF grant, oVert, which has also expanded the mandate of the scanner.

What do we do with all these collected data? We give them to students to play with and see what they find. Since starting here at FHL as a postdoc, I’ve tried to kill two birds with one stone: scan more species for #ScanAllFishes – an ambitious project begun by Adam with the goal of CT-scanning all known fish species – and introduce students to a group of fishes they can call their own. This started with the Research in Marine Biology course I taught at FHL last Spring. I directed and oversaw these student-driven independent research projects, seven of which focused on fishes ranging from horn sharks to deep-sea snailfishes. These projects used the massive amounts of data we get from CT scans to investigate how anatomy evolves in response to new opportunities, like novel habitats and novel diets.

Usually CT scanners – using x-rays – only pick up skeletal details, but Jonathan Huie (UW class of 2019) paired the scanner with new chemical staining methods to examine development in the jaws of piranhas that specialize on eating scales of other fishes (lepidophagy). He found that these scale-eating fishes change very little from juvenile to adult when compared

TidingsIntertidalFHL STUDENTS USE C T SCANNER TO ExPLORE ANCIENT EVOLUTIONARy qUESTIONS: HOW DO FISHES EAT STUFF?

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Image: CT scans of a variety of pufferfish. Credit: B. Nicholas.

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Please consider becoming an FHL Adopt-a-Student sponsor! For more information about 2018 sponsorships or the Adopt-a-Student Endowed Fund (with

matching funds available), contact Rachel Anderson at

[email protected] or by phone at 206-616-0760.

Descending slowly into the emerald waters, I watched as shimmering perch darted by and graceful jellyfish bobbed along, tentacles trailing behind. Today was a remarkably clear day at False Bay, and I marveled at my luck as swaths of bright green eelgrass stretched out before me, seeming to give a familiar wave. Pausing, I

soaked in how robust, how alive this bed was, teeming with decorator anemones and nudibranchs, gunnels and pipefish, before setting to work. It was the summer of 2015, and I was newly-minted scientific diver in FHL’s Ecology Below and Between Pacific Tides with Scientific Diving course (EBBPT). Little did I know that the course would pave the way for my graduate studies, thanks to generous support from the FHL Adopt-A-Student Program.

As a student in EBBPT, I had the pleasure of calling FHL home for six weeks. While there, I had the

remarkable opportunity to learn from leading intertidal and subtidal ecologists—Drs. Megan Dethier, David Duggins, Tiffany Stephens, Aaron Galloway, grad student Alex Lowe and Dive Safety Officer Pema Kitaeff. After classroom lectures, we dove in to get a closer look at the creatures and processes we’d learned about just hours before. Through close mentorship from our instructors, my peers and I designed and ran research projects to better understand the underwater processes and interactions in our marine backyard.

Not only did I have the opportunity to get to know my course instructors and fellow students really well, but also another wonderful member of the FHL community: Dr. Carolyn Haugen. An avid supporter of the FHL Adopt-a-Student Program, Carolyn generously helped sponsor my

DISEASE AT DEPTH: ExPLORING SUBTIDAL EELGRASS WASTING DISEASE IN THE PACIFIC NOR THWEST

An Adopted Student’s Taleby Olivia Graham

participation in the EBBT course, making my first summer of research at FHL possible. After a longtime career in education administration, Carolyn remains passionate about helping students learn by supporting hands-on research courses at FHL. I am greatly humbled by her generous support, and am grateful I have since had wonderful opportunities to get to know her. Even now, two years later, Carolyn is always so genuinely excited about my lab’s research, our projects and experiments, and the results and implications of our work. I always look forward to our visits when returning to FHL, which fortunately, I now call my home away from home.

I now return to FHL to build upon my EBBPT research on eelgrass wasting disease. As a graduate student in Dr. Drew Harvell’s lab at Cornell University, I am eager to understand the influence of biodiversity on disease in eelgrass beds. Without Carolyn’s support, I quite possibly would not be where I am today. What started as a summer project snowballed into a dissertation proposal, and now I find myself still diving and studying eelgrass. Altogether, the FHL Adopt-a-Student Program was instrumental to launching my research and future graduate studies. n

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Olivia with her Adopt-a-Student Program sponsor Dr. Carolyn Haugen. Photo: Rachel Anderson

Olivia ready for action off Calvert Island, B.C. Photo: Angeleen Olson

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Summer Session A (June 11 – July 13)• Marine Invertebrate Zoology • Marine Botany: Diversity & Ecology • Marine Subtidal Ecology • Marine Animal Bioacoustics

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George and Barbara Von Gehr with their adopted student Louis

Pernard from the Florida Institute of Technology.

Deb and Glen Bruels with Michael Fath, their adopted student from Tufts University.

Above: Maria Kuruvilla from Indiana University,

sponsored by Laura (pictured) and Sam Long.

Above, L-to-R: Alex Shapiro and her adopted student Connor Gervais from Macquarie University (Australia), and Sarah Luongo from CSU Long Beach with her sponsor Claudia Mills.

Susan Mahoney and Dennis Willows with their adopted student, Eden Teferedegn from Ege

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article contributed by Heather Spaulding, Journal of the San Juans and Dr. Carolyn Haugen, Chair, FHL Advancement Board K-12 Partnerships Committee

What an incredible evening! As jazz filled the historic Dining Hall at UW Friday Harbor Labs, donors gave generously to support the FHL K-12 Science Outreach Program. The event was the 17th annual Jazz at the Labs, and the program included a fabulous dinner along with music performances by Seattle’s Jazz Coalescence and the locally-renowned San Juan Jazz quintet. Both of the bands have members who are scientists by day. Chris Amemiya, leader of Jazz Coalescence and a professor of molecular genetics, noted “There is a connection between sciences and art. In music, physics is involved in the direct relationship with sound, rhythm and harmony.” Dennis Willows, on percussion for the San Juan Jazz quintet, was director of FHL for over 30 years and his neuroscience research focuses on the neuronal behavior of Tritonia diomeda. We were also delighted and grateful that KNKx morning jazz host Dick Stein joined us again as emcee. Dick announced that an anonymous donor had agreed to match all Fund-a-Need pledges up to $10,000 to benefit the recently established K-12 FHL Science Outreach Program Endowed Fund, and he encouraged attendees to dig deep into their pockets. As pledges poured in, the generous donor offered to increase the match to $15,000. In a very short time, proceeds for the program totaled over $38,000 – amounting to our most successful Jazz at the Labs event ever. We are so grateful to all those who support the FHL Science Outreach Program, including our many local Jazz at the Labs sponsors, whose contributions go directly to K-12 outreach. Jazz, science and generosity DO come together! Here’s to the eighteenth Jazz at the Labs, on the schedule for summer 2018! n

Seattle’s Jazz Coalescence and guest players. L-to-R: Chris Amemiya, Steve Korn, Ben Feldman (guest bass, Garfield High School), Owen Boxwell (guest guitar), Jay Thomas, John Hansen, Shotaro Sakai (guest alto sax). Not pictured: Michael Van Bebber (guest trumpet).

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4 To read more about FHLSOP projects, please visit http://depts.washington.edu/fhlk12/ .

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Carrington, Emily, PI, Washington Sea Grant. Mussel attachment in a high CO2 world: an integrated ecomaterials approach. 2014–2018.

Cordell, Jeff, PI; Co-PIs: Megan Dethier, Emily Howe, and Jason Toft, Washington Sea Grant. Shoreline Armoring Removal: Synthesis and assessment of restoration effectiveness in Puget Sound. 2016–2018.

Dethier, Megan, PI, Department of Natural Resources. Long-term monitoring and focus studies in shoreline biota in Puget Sound. 2013–2019.

Dethier, Megan, subcontract Estuary and Salmon Restoration Program; PI: South Puget Sound Salmon Enhancement Group. Effects of bulkhead removal on beaches and their biota. 2016-2018.

Dethier, Megan, PI; Co-PI: Jennifer Ruesink, Washington Sea Grant. Relative strengths of factors causing post-settlement mortality in juvenile clams in diverse WA waters. 2016–2018.

Dethier, Megan, PI; CoPIs: Jeff Cordell, Jason Toft, Snohomish County Estuary and Salmon Restoration Program. Railroad grade beach nourishment planning. 2015-2018.

Foe, Victoria, PI, Seaver Institute. Colliding Polymerases. Does replication fork collision with Pol 2 activate downstream gene expression? 2011–2018.

Hodin, Jason, PI, Stanford University. Turbulence-spurred settlement: Deciphering a newly recognized class of larval response. 2015-2018.

Sebens, Kenneth, PI; Co-PIs: Alex Gagnon, Danny Grunbaum, Jan Newton, Billie Swalla, NSF. Ocean Observatory System at FHL that will monitor local ocean change and provide real-time data to scientists. 2014–2018.

Summers, Adam, PI, Seaver Insitute. Bones without cells. 2017-2019.

Summers, Adam, PI; Co-PI: Megan Dethier, NSF. Research Experiences for Undergraduates: Integrative Biology and Ecology of Marine Organisms. 2010–2017.

Summers, Adam, PI, UW CoMotion. Developing and testing prototypes of suction cups based on clingfish physiology. 2016-2017.

Summers, Adam, PI, NSF. Collaborative Research: An integrative approach to the performance and evolution of high performance suctorial disks in fishes. 2012–2018.

Summers, Adam, Co-PI, NSF. oVert: Open exploration of vertebrate diversity in 3D. 2017-2019.

Swalla, Billie, PI, NSF. BEACON “Bio/Computational Evolution in Action CONsortium.” Fosters interactions between computer scientists, engineers, and evolutionary biologists to solve contemporary problems. 2011–2021.

Swalla, Billie, PI, Seeley Fund. Ocean Research on Tetiaroa. 2015-2019.

Swalla, Billie, PI, UW Royalty Research Fund, RRF. Ascidian Genomic Tools. 2017-2018.

Truman, Jim, PI; Co-PI: Lynn Riddiford, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Crustacean Neurobiology. 2016-2021. n

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The young Investigator Prize provides the opportunity for a promising high school student to have an immersive research experience at the Friday Harbor Labs. This summer Zach Fincher, a Junior from Friday Harbor High School, worked with myself, Lynn Riddiford and Rebecca Johnston in our newly-established group studying the development, physiology and behavior of crustaceans. Zach is a scholastically talented student who also has many extracurricular activities, such as acting in local theatre productions (he was the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz) and developing a community project on prevention of bullying, which won the top prize at the Washington State Spring youth Forum. He also has a long-standing interest in both biology and the sea, and the young Investigator Prize gave him the opportunity to work with us for the summer and get his feet wet in marine research. Zach was part of our research program on the small mysid shrimp Archaeomysisgrebnitzkii. Occasional collecting trips to Eagle Cove revealed to Zach that the surf zone, beyond being an exceptional site for board surfing, was teeming with these small crustaceans that came out to hunt between the waves. Back in the laboratory, Zach developed skills in microdissection of their nervous system and used antibodies, immunocytochemistry and confocal microscopy to reveal different populations of cell types in the nervous system. By the end of his ten weeks with us, Zach was screening new antibodies for use on mysid nervous systems and trouble-shooting protocols to establish the best staining conditions for each. We are hoping for a repeat performance next summer – this time with Zach as a regular summer employee. n

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On July 29, 2017, friends, colleagues, and former students celebrated the life of Eugene “Koz” Kozloff, who died March 4, 2017 at the age of 96. The Kozfest Memorial was held on a sunny afternoon in the Dining Hall of the University of Washington’s Friday Harbor Laboratories.

Gene was born in 1920 in Tehran, Iran, of Russian parents who then found their way to Riverside, California, where he grew up with two siblings and attended Riverside Junior College. He married Anne Solomon of Riverside in 1944, and had one daughter, Rae. He received Masters and Doctoral degrees at the University of California at Berkeley, and took his first teaching job at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon.

Gene first came to Friday Harbor Laboratories in the summer of 1961 to teach invertebrate zoology. He was subsequently hired in 1966 by the University of Washington to be the Resident Associate Director of the FHL. For several years after his 1966 arrival, he was the only year-round soul at the Labs, conducting winter FHL business from a payphone in the basement hallway of the then-new Main Laboratory Building (now called the Fernald Laboratory, for Bob Fernald who was the Director of the Friday

Harbor Labs 1956–1972). Beginning in the spring of 1968 Gene became one of the core instructors at FHL, teaching about invertebrates most spring and summer quarters for the next 20 years. He continued to come in daily to FHL in his later years to do research, primarily on flatworms, ciliates, kinorhynchs, and orthonectids, until he moved to Anacortes in 2007 at age 87. In Anacortes, Gene found a warm welcome at the Shannon Point Marine Center of Western Washington University, where he continued his studies for several more years.

Gene was one of the last of several generations of marine naturalist scientists who could identify almost anything, plant or animal, and could tell you stories about how it made its living along the seashore. Remarkably, his natural history knowledge extended beyond the seashore to terrestrial plants and animals, too, from British Columbia to Southern California. Few others today can claim such breadth of knowledge.

Gene shared his general knowledge with everyone, both in lectures and field trips and in numerous books written for the general public and other books and scientific journal articles

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Rae Kozloff and the first student to benefit from the Kozloff Endowment, Viviana Castillo, at Koz Fest in July.

Koz in his office at FHL in 2006.Photo: Claudia Mills

Koz Fest by Claudia Mills

written at the expert specialist level. His books span both the marine and the terrestrial realms. One speaker at the Kozfest memorial noted that Gene excelled at identifying marine animals described in layman’s terms, over the telephone, by people unfamiliar with marine life and without a vocabulary to describe what they had seen. Few others who receive this kind of phone call at the Labs can touch Gene’s ability to see with the same eyes as the person on the phone and give them an instant identification.

Colleagues and students of Gene spoke at the memorial about Gene as an author and invertebrate biologist, as a professor, as a colleague, as a botanist, and as an educator of the general public in the San Juan Islands, especially as a teacher for the San Juan Nature Institute. He was also an art collector, an opera fan, and a musician and founder of the Society for Forgotten Composers. That musical society was the name Gene gave his small, informal chamber ensemble, who played music together in every town where he lived. He owned a harpsichord, which he tuned himself before every practice session, but which was played by one of his keyboardist friends; Gene himself played the viola da gamba, and his ensemble usually also included two treble instruments, including violin, flutes, or oboe. They played early Baroque music by his “forgotten composers,” including Monteverdi, Frescobaldi, and Buxtehude, among others. Gene’s daughter Rae told us that he had entertained the idea of becoming an opera singer, and remained an avid fan of opera throughout his life.

The Kozfest gathering was treated to an array of family photographs of Gene from babyhood through elder “statesman,” assembled by his daughter Rae. After many heartfelt tributes, the

group adjourned to a delicious potluck meal and further informal sharing of memories of adventures with Koz.

A second summer picnic memorial gathering was held for friends of Gene Kozloff on August 20, 2017 in Washington Park, Anacortes. His wife, Anne Kozloff, just passed away peacefully in late October, one day before her 100th birthday.

In 2015 the Eugene N. Kozloff Endowed Fund for Undergraduate Student Support was established so that future students may continue to benefit from Koz’s enthusiasm for teaching. We are very pleased that this fund supported its first student this summer at FHL. you can

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BrentHughesBrent is a marine ecologist whose research focuses on drivers of resilient coastal ecosystems. Much of his research focuses on coastal vegetated habitats, such as seagrass meadows, kelp forests, and salt marshes. These marine systems are critical to biodiversity

and human well-being, but are under threat from local and global stressors. Brent uses an interdisciplinary ecosystem- and community-based approach to better understand what makes ecosystems resilient in face of anthropogenic stress. He will soon take this approach to Friday Harbor Labs where he will start the Friday Harbor Labs Postdoctoral Fellowship in early 2018 under the supervision of Dr. Megan Dethier. Brent plans on using the unique coastal ecosystems around the Friday Harbor Labs to better understand the ecosystem function of habitat mosaics and seascapes. Brent is currently a David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellow with Duke University, and has research appointments with the University of Alaska, Fairbanks and University of California Santa Cruz. He completed his Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California Santa Cruz and his M.S. in Marine Science at Moss Landing Marine Labs and Cal State East Bay. n

Mackenzie Gerringer earned her PhD in Marine Biology from the University of Hawaii in 2017. Her research centers on the physiology and ecology of the planet’s deepest-living fishes. As a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, she studied drivers of depth zonation in the hadal zone, depths ranging 6,000 – 11,000 meters. Mackenzie’s scientific interests lie

largely with the extreme adaptations of fishes to life in the amazing pressures, cold temperatures, and eternal darkness of deep-sea trenches. Through comparative techniques in functional morphology, cellular physiology, energetics, age and growth studies, and diet analysis, she is investigating the adaptations and notable success of snailfishes in the hadal zone. Her teaching experiences include courses in Marine Biology, Oceanography, and English, the latter through a Fulbright Fellowship in Germany. Mackenzie is excited to join the FHL team, where she will be teaching Integrative Oceans and studying functional morphology of deep-sea fishes in the Summers Lab. n

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Dr. Fumio Iwata, an internationally renowned expert in the field of nemertean systematics, was a frequent and beloved visitor to Friday Harbor Labs during the last several decades. He was constantly searching for and describing new species of nemerteans, with one of his latest finds being the new genus and species Peavinenemerteswhiteleyi that he discovered in waters near the Labs and named in honor of Dr. Arthur Whiteley. Using his expertise in microtechniques and a discerning eye for morphological detail, Dr. Iwata was able to produce serial sections of various embedded specimens and thereby uncovered key diagnostic features that contributed substantially to our understanding of nemertean taxonomy. Those of us fortunate enough to cross

paths with Dr. Iwata will certainly remember him as an extremely kind and generous man who greatly encouraged and assisted young researchers getting a foothold in nemertean biology. He will be sorely missed. n

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Post-docs Dr. S. Jonathan Stern, a marine ecologist and leading marine mammal expert, died on February 16, 2017, just 62 years young. He was a long-standing researcher at the Friday Harbor Labs and a professor in the Department of Biology at San Francisco State University. In the early 1980s, Jon joined an ambitious study of the minke whales of Puget Sound, begun by Eleanor Dorsey at The Whale Museum in Friday Harbor, and he also started a parallel

study in Monterey Bay. That joint project is now the longest-running longitudinal study of the species. It was also the first study to apply photo-ID techniques to a baleen whale, which is now a common research tool. Jon was not only a gifted scientist and teacher but a man of great class, gentle and with a generous desire to share his knowledge and enthusiasm for scientific inquiry. He was a talented musician with an appreciation for good music and beautiful guitars, and was an integral member of the Bay area’s Jungle Studs. Jon was many things to many people – scientist, teacher, mentor, friend – and his loss will leave a profound mark on all who knew him. Jon is survived by his sister Kitsy, and many friends and colleagues all over the world. n

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Beatrice Crosby Booth Endowed Scholarship

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Alan J. Kohn Endowed Fellowship

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Richard R. and Megumi F. Strathmann Endowed Fellowship

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or contact Rachel Anderson at [email protected].

Some of the Whiteley Scholars hosted in 2017 and their projects:

Gerald Baldasty, UW Provost and Executive Vice President. Worked on a report “UW Provost Reports on Trends and Issues in Higher Education.”

Neal Bascomb, independent author. Penned a non-fiction narrative history of a POW breakout during World War I at a German camp called Holzminden. The book entitled “The Breakout Artists” will be published by Houghton Mifflin next year.

Maxine Berg, University of Warwick. Pulled together articles on the late eighteenth century trade of sea otters for iron and copper between European traders and the people of Nootka Sound.

Anela Choy, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. Wrote about a comprehensive food web study including a diversity of fish, cephalopod, crustacean, and gelatinous animals from the water column of Monterey Bay.

Alexander Fisher, University of British Columbia. Researched the relationship of sacred music and religious culture in early modern Europe in the era of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation (1550-1650) and worked on completing “Music, Piety, and Propaganda: The Soundscapes of Counter-Reformation Bavaria.”

Kirsten Foot, UW and Carole Groleau, University of Montreal. Collaborated on data from a cross-national analysis of counterhuman trafficking coalitions.

Albert Gordon, UW. Researched calcium regulation of muscle contraction based on initial observations at FHL by his collaborators Ellis Ridgway and Chris Ashley.

Root Gorelick, Carleton University. Drafted a paper on how to increase diversity in faculty hiring, and also examined populations of the brittle prickly pear cactus found on San Juan Island.

Christine Hiebert, University of the Arts – Philadelphia. Continued a series of abstract color drawings that consider the paper as the metaphorical site where gestures of the earth collide with human gestures.

Mike Honey, UW Tacoma. Worked on his book “To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and Economic Justice.”

Joe Lott and Ismael Fajardo, UW. Examined data related to the Brotherhood Initiative on campus, to generate themes about Black and Brown males’ experiences on college campuses.

Megan Parker, PATH. Worked on findings from projects – funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – that were located in the Brong-Ahafo region of Ghana and examined the nutrition content of local edible insects for food (palm weevil larvae) as a new alternative animal source of food.

Martha Silano, independent author. Continued researching and writing poems about global climate change, endangered species, the etymologies of English words and the current political climate, including poems about fake news, hate speech and the resurgence of xenophobia. n

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We wish to acknowledge our many contributors for their kind and generous support of students and programs at FHL.

Sea Star Society Barry & Karen AcheSarah ArmstrongMarcus Berliant & Clara AsnesBill & Melinda Gates FoundationMary & Michael BillsBinney-Johnson CorporationElizabeth Brainerd & Timothy HiebertLyman B. Brainerd Jr. Family FoundationGlen & Debra BruelsWilliam Calvin & Katherine GraubardCask & Schooner / Tops‘l RestaurantAna Mari Cauce & Susan JoslynMichael CaveyCornell University FoundationSally CoxThomas Daniel & Jane BairdMegan Dethier & David DugginsDanna DiazDrollinger Family Charitable Foundation Bethany EconopoulyEl Dorado Community FoundationMelissa & Charles FrolandLynn Fuller & William Bivins Jr.Rhanor & Martha GilletteElizabeth GladfelterCharles Greene & C. Drew HarvellMichael & Carolyn HadfieldCarolyn HaugenColin Hermans

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SeaStarSocietyMembersaredonorswhocontributed$1,000ormorethispastyear.

FHL ContributorsA & H Stores, IncorporatedAlex CheroskeJeffner AllenGayle AmecheGregory Anderson & Patsy DickinsonRachel & Mark AndersonAntonia & Robert BaileyGrace BakusMichael Baltzley & Maia JonesMargaret & Rich BarkerGrant BatzelLinda BeidlemanJack & Sherry BellElena Bianco & Richard BollingerCharles & Mei Tsu BirkelandJohn & Carol BishopStephen & Cameron BloomAnne Boettcher & Daniel MartinConstance & Lewis BranscombGayle Brenchley & Susan White

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Laurel MorenoAlexander & Ann MottenWarren & Elaine NaganoPatrick Nance & Wendy ShearnKarina NielsenR. Glenn & Mary NorthcuttMark Ohman & Cynthia ClaxtonOlshefsky FamilyJoyce PalmerMario & Nellie PamatmatEdward & Insuk ParkLeonard Passano & Elizabeth HoweJohn & Ruth PearceDaniel PenttillaBruno PernetJonathan PiffKaren PlassRobert PodolskyRobert PriceMelody RiceCourtney RichmondSteven Rissing & Janet LukacsBrian & Mary Jane RivestJennifer & Todd RobertsVéronique Robigou & Bruce NelsonRoche Harbor ResortMark & Sandra RonanDavid RumoloM. & J. SalvinoSan Juan InteriorsSan Juan Island OutfittersSan Juan VineyardsSan Juan SafarisSan Juan WirelessVijay & Mary SarthyAllen & Joan SchuetzScott & Susan SchwingeAnne ShafferAlex ShapiroJohn ShepherdOsamu & Akemi ShimomuraThalia & Richard ShorettRichard & Harriet ShowmanCharles Simenstad & Stephanie MartinJames SlockNancy SmithLarry Soll & Nancy MaronRuth & Robert SolomonJohn SpadyHeather SpauldingLewis & Nancy SpauldingErik SperlingJohn & Marilyn SpiethGary & Susan SternerAndrea & Walter Stile IIIKarla & Saul StriebNadia Suarez-Bosche

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Rachel Anderson, Asst. Director for Advancement [email protected]

Sandra Schumann, Senior Director for Advancement, College of the Environment [email protected]

For more information about supporting FHL, please contact us:

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We continually strive at FHL to build a sustainable future for our campus in the San Juan Islands. This vision guides our decisions about FHL courses, students, visiting researchers, and FHL campus upkeep. We are currently in the middle of a campaign to ensure that FHL continues to be a premier marine research and teaching facility for the next 100 years by establishing endowments for some of our critical programs.

Advancement – Our FHL campaign priorities are aligned with the College of the Environment and UW, to raise money for Student Support for our awesome experiential courses and Faculty Support to teach those courses and continue World-class Research with upgraded facilities. We are also envisioning a new FHL Innovation Center that includes new library space, a large Lecture Hall and two new classrooms. We can do these ambitious projects TOGETHER.

Research – The CT Scanner has been busy 24/7, with many visitors coming with their boxes of fish and other marine animals to scan at FHL. Adam Summers is part of a new NSF project to “Scan all Vertebrates.” The equipment for the FHL Ocean Observatory (FHLOO) is being tested and will be launched this fall. Jim Truman, Lynn Riddiford and Rebecca Johnston are working in Lab 10 on Neural Stem Cells in crustacean development and metamorphosis.

Teaching – We continue to offer Marine Biology courses and FHL Apprenticeships. Three Seas students were here this fall and will return with a new group of students in the spring of 2018. The Cornell CORALS apprenticeship will be back for their third year in the spring of 2018. We have world-class summer courses

Professor Billie Swalla,FHL Director

and instructors – check out our schedule for 2018 at the FHL website: fhl.uw.edu/courses/course-descriptions/

Science Communication – We’ve upgraded our Newsletters and worked with the College of the Environment to improve our “branding” image – with a new web site. We finished our fourth year of monthly Tide Bites to communicate FHL scientific research to the public and work to publish our newsworthy research. We hope that you like our polished new look and look forward to seeing you at FHL this year.

Staff – Jeff Bronstein has been on board for nearly six months as the new FHL Administrator. Jeff brings years of expertise in Administration from a medical perspective and is working closely with me to honor and celebrate our terrific staff by improving their experience in working at FHL. Alisa Schoultz has joined our Administrative team from Jensen’s Boat yard and has livened up the front office.

Best wishes to you and your families in 2018! It has been a challenging year in so many ways for people in the USA and around the globe, and we hope that the New year brings you the best that life has to offer. We are very thankful that you are part of FHL and look forward to a bright and sustainable future. n

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Student scientists mentioned on page 1

Left: Darby Finnegan, with a cutthroat trout caught in the North Fork

Clearwater Basin in 2016.

Right: Jonathan Huie, playing a bull kelp (Nereocystis) horn on an FHL

beach.

Below: Benjamin Nicholas in Lab 8, holding a 3-D printed skull of a Smooth

Puffer (Lagocephaluslaevigatus) with a scanned image of one behind him,

from a Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collection specimen.

To learn more about FHL, please visit our website at fhl.uw.edu. Interested in receiving our eNewsletter or monthly TideBite e-mail about FHL research? Please sign up on the FHL News page: tinyurl.com/FHLnews.