Friday Harbor Laboratories (FHL), is a

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field station of the

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, located in Friday Harbor, San Juan Island,

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, United States. Friday Harbor Labs is known for its intensive summer classes offered to competitive

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from around the world in fields of

and other marine sciences. Puget Sound Biological Station laboratories, Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, Washington, ca 1926 (COBB 335)

Autumn and spring academic terms include courses designed for advanced undergraduates as well as graduate students; most spring and fall classes run 10 weeks and feature an original research component. In addition to serving students, Friday Harbor Laboratories has a small resident scientific staff and offers year-round laboratory, library, and housing accommodations for visiting researchers and their families. Research areas include

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, marine conservation biology, marine invertebrate zoology, comparative invertebrate embryology, experimental and field approaches in biology and paleontology, functional morphology and ecology of marine fishes, invertebrate larval ecology, and other current topics in marine science and oceanography. FHL was founded in 1904 by University of Washington

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Trevor Kincaid, who became its first director. The

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was discovered at FHL in 1962. There is a sculpture by

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at the campus to commemorate the discovery. In 2004, zoologist Patricia Louise Dudley, who had spent many summers at the Laboratory, created an endowment to support "research or scholarships for the study of systematics, the structure of marine organisms, or for marine invertebrate ecology". She directed that fund recipients spend significant time at Friday Harbor, and added her desire that "findings contribute to the understanding of evolutionary relationships".

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One hundred year history of FHL in timeline format
Marine biological stations Buildings and structures in San Juan County, Washington Friday Harbor, Washington Research institutes in Washington (state) University of Washington {{Biology-org-stub