(1/2) We learned a single byssal thread costs 1 joule to manufacture, byssus production can represent up to 50% of a mussel’s energy budget and research opportunities for students are worth their weight in gold! Carrington Lab UW Biology Friday Harbor Labs functionalecologists.com/2021/06/17/mol…

Welcome Alli! It’s so great to have a real ‘rock star’ join the Carrington Lab 🌊 🪨 ⛏ 💫

Great paper by the amazing @intertidalecol, showing long term declines in a habitat-forming rockweed.

If a whelk drills a hole for dinner but ditches before dining, the mussel can repair the damage. Beautiful work led by Matthew George, Ph.D. using materials testing, SEM, EDAX, uCT and Xtratufs Carrington Lab

Excited to see the beautiful work of Jaquan Horton in print! Read all about how a stomach-less fish has an intestine that gets the job done. UW Biology Friday Harbor Labs Carrington Lab doi.org/10.1093/iob/ob… 1/2

Deforestation in kelp forests is driven by a delicate balance of kelp detrital supply and urchin grazing! We map the urchin effects on kelp w/ SBC LTER US LTER data and predict where urchins drive forest collapse! Great work Bart DiFiore Mae Rennick! thanks California Sea Grant !

Thank you Penn Cove Shellfish for hosting our tri-lab group today! Seeing farm-to-table aquaculture first-hand inspires and motivates our lab, field and modelling studies Friday Harbor Labs, funded by U.S. National Science Foundation BIOOCE. #eatmussels Mike Nishizaki 🇨🇦 Matt Reidenbach Carrington Lab UW Biology