Browsing Friday Harbor Laboratories Student Research Papers by Title
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Wall obstacles impact escape response latency and directionality in Pacific staghorn sculpin
(2023)Effective escape maneuvers are critical for prey fishes, as fast-start performance has a direct impact on survival in predator-prey interactions. For fish living in structurally complex environments, physical obstacles – ... -
Water on the rise: Bull Kelp Gametophyte survival in rising temperatures
(2019)As anthropogenic climate change progresses, increasing seawater temperatures play a large role in shaping changes in the range of benthic species. Predominate cold temperate kelp species are such an impacted organism; they ... -
What to expect when you're expecting (larvae): The effects of four algal diets on the development of Pisaster ochraceus larvae
(2019)Echinoderm larvae, particularly those of class Asteroidea, are well-studied in a variety of fields ranging from marine ecology to developmental biology. Larvae are useful study organisms in that they are generally easily ... -
What’s that smell? A Whiff of Gunnel Olfactory Morphology
(2022)Chemoreception is used to track predators, prey, or find conspecifics. Across the Zoarcoidei suborder, diet varies from herbivory to carnivory. Members of the Pholidae family are found along intertidal shorelines of the ... -
Where should I settle? An investigation into the larval settlement patterns of Mesocentrotus franciscanus
(2019)The red sea urchin, Mesocentrotus franciscanus, is an ecologically and economically important species. Although there has been extensive work on the life of the adults, little work has been done on the larval stage of its ... -
“Where’s Waldo?”: Unraveling the puzzle of Idotea wosnesenskii abundance across San Juan Island
(2021)Idotea wosnesenskii are intertidal isopods typically found on kelp, mussel beds, and intertidal rocks. With a relatively large geographical range, I. wosnesenskii can be found from Alaska to northern Mexico while also ... -
“Where’s Waldo?”: Unraveling the puzzle of Idotea wosnesenskii abundance across San Juan Island
(2022-05)Idotea wosnesenskii are intertidal isopods typically found on kelp, mussel beds, and intertidal rocks. With a relatively large geographical range, I. wosnesenskii can be found from Alaska to northern Mexico while also ... -
Who's on fish: comparing macro-scavenger communities on fish and kelp bait across an intertidal-subtidal depth gradient
(Friday Harbor Laboratories, 2014-08)The importance of scavenging communities, and the detritus and carrion on which they feed, has been well studied from the perspectives of spatial food subsidies (marine to terrestrial, terrestrial to marine, and marine to ... -
Who's on fish: comparing macro-scavenger communities on fish and kelp bait across an intertidal-subtidal depth gradient.
(Friday Harbor Laboratories, 2014-08)The importance of scavenging communities, and the detritus and carrion on which they feed, has been well studied from the perspectives of spatial food subsidies (marine to terrestrial, terrestrial to marine, and marine ... -
Why are there so many flatfishes? Jaw asymmetry, diet, and diversification in the Pleuronectiformes
(Friday Harbor Laboratories, 2014-07)Flatfishes (Actinopterygii: Pleuronectiformes) are a diverse group of teleost fishes, with over 700 species in the order. Jaw asymmetry and diet have been thought to contribute to flatfish diversity but this has not yet ... -
Why are there so many flatfishes? Jaw asymmetry, diet, and diversification in the Pleuronectiformes
(Friday Harbor Laboratories, 2014-07)Flatfishes (Actinopterygii: Pleuronectiformes) are a diverse group of teleost fishes, with over 700 species in the order. Jaw asymmetry and diet have been thought to contribute to flatfish diversity but this has not yet ... -
Why are you so defensive? Investigating the correlation between risk-taking behaviors and defensive morphology of marine Three-Spined Stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus
(2023)Defensive morphologies, spines and armor, are wide-spread across multicellular life and do not exist in a vacuum, but instead co-evolve with a host of other traits to form an overall “Armor Syndrome”. The evolution of ... -
Why the Round Head? Morphometrics relating to Ontogeny of Select Bulbous Fishes
(Friday Harbor Labs, 2012-12)Potential effects of changing body shape morphometrics with growth in bulbous fishes were studied in five species; Clinocottus globiceps, Oligocottus maculosus, Liparis dennyi and Gobiesox maeandricus and Chitonotus ... -
Wnt Pathway in Sand Dollar Dendraster excentricus Clones
(Friday Harbor Laboratories, 2013-06)Although regeneration has been described in many deuterstomes, little is known about the molecular pathways involved in regeneration and cloning in the echinoderms (Rychel and Swalla, 2008). Larval cloning occurs in the ... -
Ziegler 1 A population genetics study of the wood-boring bivalve, Xylophaga washingtona, from wood-fall experiments along OR and WA, USA
(Friday Harbor Laboratories, 2014-08)A widely distributed species of wood-boring bivalve, Xylophaga washingtona, was collected from three sites along the Washington-Oregon margin and assessed with molecular techniques. 16S gene sequences revealed low ... -
ZOOPLANKTON COMMUNITIES IN THE SAN JUAN CHANNEL
(2011)The San Juan Channel is a transitional area between marine and freshwater environments that influences the distribution, abundance and community composition of zooplankton. Zooplankton communities ... -
Zooplankton composition and copepod lipid content over Fall 2014 in the Salish Sea
(Friday Harbor Laboratories, 2014-12-14)Zooplankton are secondary producers that play a major role in carbon sequestration, the microbial loop, and energy transfer across trophic levels. Zooplankton are abundant in the Salish Sea, a productive inland sea with ... -
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(Friday Harbor Laboratories, 2014-12)Large populations of diving seabirds are found in the San Juan Archipelago, an important overwintering region for many seabirds. Previous Pelagic Ecosystem Function Apprenticeships have focused on the relationships of ...