Coming Events
Open House
May 18, 2013
This event offers a splendid opportunity to meet scientists and students at the Labs and check out the research and teaching facilities. From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., the Labs will be open for self-guided tours. Scientists and students will showcase their marine science research, answer questions and provide demonstrations. There will be posters, marine plants and animals, electron and confocal microscopes, plankton sampling and observations, and activities for visitors of all ages. Kids are particularly encouraged to attend.
The public is invited to learn more about the equipment used by scientists to learn more about marine zoology, botany, fisheries and oceanography. People can step aboard and tour our 58' research vessel, the R/V Centennial, and check out its remotely operated vehicle (ROV), oceanographic tools, and high-tech sonar systems. There will be a demonstration of SCUBA equipment including a SCUBA dive from the FHL dock.
Sturdy shoes are recommended because the tour route includes rough dock planks, gravel paths and trails. You can find free popcorn in the tradition of Friday Harbor Laboratories' Open Houses, and light refreshments will be available in the Dining Hall for a small fee.
Jazz at the Labs
June 1, 2013
Supporting SJI's K-12 Programs through its Science Outreach Program
On Saturday night, June 1, 2013, Friday Harbor Laboratories will hold its 13th annual Jazz at the Labs, an evening of GREAT MUSIC, a fabulous dinner and a silent auction at the Friday Harbor Labs. As in the past, proceeds from Jazz at the Labs will benefit the Friday Harbor Laboratories K-12 Science Outreach Program (FHLSOP) in the San Juan Island elementary, middle and high schools and the Spring Street School.
The FHLSOP partners students with scientists and offers hands-on encounters with science. In this current school year, the Science Outreach Program will involve more than 900 students!
This year's Jazz at the Labs program will begin with dinner from 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Doors open at 5:30. During dinner, music will be provided by the San Juan Jazz Quintet. (Dennis Willows on drums.) Hawk Arps will join SJJQ as a special guest on the vibrophone. SJJQ has entertained audiences in the PNW since 1990, playing standards, swing, bebop, originals and Latin jazz, every week at the Rumor Mill restaurant in Friday Harbor.
Starting at 7:00 p.m., Chris Amemiya and Jazz Coalescence, the outstanding jazz band from Seattle, will perform featuring jazz standards with their own special edge.
Dick Stein, will lead the evening as Emcee. You probably know Dick from KPLU/NPR fame. He hosts the morning jazz show and co-hosts and produces the Food for Thought feature with the Seattle Times’ Nancy Leson. Farhad Ghatan will help with the "almost" silent auction.
Reservations for the event are strongly recommended. We sell out! For reservations and more information, please call Friday Harbor Laboratories at 378-2165 ext. 0.
Chris Amemiya and Jazz Coalescence Photo: Trish Morse
San Juan Island Quartet Photo: Trish Morse
2013 Illg Distinguished Lectureship
Dr. Gonzalo Giribet
Harvard University
Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and
Curator of Invertebrates, Museum of Comparative Zoology
Scientific Lecture
Understanding the Animal Tree of Life--from Morphology to Genomes
Wednesday, June 19 at the Friday Harbor Laboratories Commons
Since the times of Haeckel zoologists have attempted to understand the composition and the relationships among the animal phyla. While morphology has played a fundamental role in elucidating these patterns our understanding of animal phylogeny has changed drastically after the incorporation of molecular data. The widespread use of large fragments of genomes and transcriptomes in modern phylogenetic analyses is helping to perfect the picture of the Tree of Life.
Public Lecture
Around the world in search of invertebrates for species discovery, biogeography and systematics
Thursday, June 20 at the San Juan Community Theater, 7:30pm
Invertebrates dominate all the ecosystems on earth and are perfect models for studying the patterns of distribution of organisms in our planet. During the past decade I have collected invertebrates in all continents and all oceans and discovered new species to address biodiversity questions and to study biogeographic and phylogenetic patterns.
