"The Friday Harbor Laboratories of the University of Washington offers laboratory facilities and field sites for studies of marine organisms by visiting scientists and students. Qualifiedvisitors are accepted form other institutions, states, and countries. Instruction is primarily at the graduate level. Undergraduate instruction is also offered. Most studies are of marine organisms. The teaching and research laboratories consist of nine one-story buildings of about 1,500 square feet each and two larger two-story research buildings. Running sea water, free from metallic contamination, is delivered to aquaria through polyethylene or PVC pipes and fittings. Photographic darkrooms, walk-in cold rooms, amicrotechnique room, and a shop are available. Analytical equipment for general use includes centrifuges, computers with T-1 connection, scintillation counters, particle counter, a high performance liquid chromatograph, spectrophotometers, culture chambers, fluorescence microscope, video and cineequipment, scanning laser confocal microscopes, image processor, and electrophysiological equipment. Both transmission and scanning electronmicroscopes may be used by investigators with appropriate experience. A 58-foot boat, the R/V Centennial is equipped for collecting and water sampling. Smaller boats are available for research with SCUBA. Permission to use SCUBA must be obtained from the Diving Safety Officer and is generally granted only to independent investigators and students whose research projects requirediving. A library of over 17,000 volumes contains books and journals providing a core collection in the biology and ecology of marine organisms. Online access is available to the holdings of the University of Washington Libraries system. A collection of preserved marine animals and plants (with computer indexing) is available as an aide to identification and location. Laboratory space and housing for investigators and visiting classes is available year-round. Dining hall service is available (with brief interruptions) during Spring, Summer and Autumn Quarters. Investigators andstudents are encouraged to use the facilities outside the main instructional period of summer. Research suited to the facilities and the site is hosted by the laboratories. Research topics range from molecules to ecosystems. Marine organisms are usually the subjects of research, but projects in geology, limnology, and terrestrial biology have been hosted as well. Emphasis is on research by visitors rather than a permanent, resident research program. Courses are offered Spring and Summer Quarters andtaught by professors at the University of Washington and visiting faculty. During Spring Quarter, a ten-week marine botany/zoology course is offered for the advanced undergraduate. Other courses are structured with the graduate student in mind. Students from other institutions and countries are encouraged to apply.

The Laboratories are located on San Juan Island, part of an archipelago between the mainland and Vancouver Island. They are well situated for research on many aspects of marine biology and oceanography. The waters around San Juan Island are relatively free from pollution and, although the salinity is in general like that of the open ocean, there are a few estuarine situations of low salinity. There are swift tideways as well as quiet bays and lagoons. A tidal range of about 3 meters exposes diverse intertidal areas of rock, sand and mud. Depths in glacier cut channels near the Laboratories exceed 100 m. The marine flora and fauna are exceptionally rich. The 484-acre tract of land on which the Laboratories are sited, and the marine waters of the region in general, are biological preserves. The Laboratories also control biological preserves at False Bay and Argyle Lagoon on San Juan Island, at Point George and Cedar Rock on Shaw Island, and some other areas. These preserves provide a wide range of protected marine and terrestrial environments available for short- and long-term research projects.

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