UW News

James Murray


March 12, 2015

Naturally acidic waters of Puget Sound surround UW’s Friday Harbor Labs

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For more than 100 years, marine biologists at Friday Harbor Laboratories have studied the ecology of everything from tiny marine plants to giant sea stars. Now, as the oceans are undergoing a historic shift in chemistry, the lab is establishing itself as a place to study what that will mean for marine life. And the…


April 11, 2013

Space-age domes offer a window on ocean acidification

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At Friday Harbor Labs, students are conducting a three-week study on the effects of ocean acidification using a strategy that’s midway between a controlled lab test and an open-ocean experiment.