Richard Olmstead is Director of the Herbarium. Sarah Gage is Collections Manager. The Friday Harbor Laboratories facility is the principal marine field station of the University of Washington. Its faculty is drawn from various academic units of the University, including Botany, fisheries, oceanography, and zoology. The Laboratories, located approximately 80 miles north of Seattle near the town of Friday Harbor on San Juan Island, offers a biological preserve of nearly 500 acres of wooded land with about two miles of shoreline.
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