UPCOMING CLASSES
• Pho in One Hour, cooking class
• R/V Kittiwake Expedition
Click a class name to learn more — and to register!
If you have any questions about classes, please email us: silhseducation@gmail.com
Pho in one hour
a cooking class for hungry adults!
July 12 at 11am • Community Building • Cost per person: $10
Pho is Vietnam’s most iconic and beloved noodle soup — a fragrant, soul-soothing bowl of silky rice noodles, tender meat, and a deeply flavorful spiced broth. The broth is traditionally simmered for hours with beef bones, charred aromatics, and warm spices like star anise, cinnamon, and cloves. Our favorite local chef Ghim Sim Chua will teach you how to recreate all that comforting depth in just one hour, using a pressure cooker. It’s a perfect antidote to those cold wintery Shaw days!
All food for cooking will be supplied; we will email you a list of utensils and supplies to bring.
This class is limited to 20 participants, and you must register.
To register for this event, click here.
R/V Kittiwake Expedition to search for Pacific Spotted Ratfish nesting sites
Tuesday, July 15th
1 –4 pm
$40 / person
(This trip is limited to 12 people. Minimum age for this trip is 18.)
We will gather in the parking lot at the Ellis Preserve and then walk down together to the dock to board the R/V Kittiwake and head out!
You’ll be out on the water for approximately two hours, helping characterize the biodiversity of potential ratfish sites with two net deployments. Each haul will bring up fish, invertebrates, and kelps that we’ll identify — and you’ll help contribute to groundbreaking research.
This expedition is led by Karly Cohen, PhD. Karly is a research scientist at Friday Harbor Labs and is excited to have Shaw community members aboard the R/V Kittiwake for an exciting expedition in search of the lost nursery sites of the Pacific spotted ratfish! Known for their distinctive rat-like beak, these fascinating creatures are abundant throughout the Pacific Northwest waters. Over the past five years, Karly and her team have discovered that these fish migrate through the San Juan Channel, leaving eggs along the way.
Karly is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Florida in the Fraser lab looking at the evolution and development of teeth, denticles and odontodes. These are some of the earliest vertebrate traits (over 500 million years old)! Using an arsenal of bioimaging techniques, she asks questions about fundamental laws acting on phenotypic evolution through the tools and adaptations of fishes; she asks how different lineages have solved common mechanical and ecological problems. Karly received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington and Friday Harbor Labs in 2022 and graduated from The George Washington University with a Masters in Science in Biology in 2019.