SAFS researcher joins The Fisheries Podcast
Growing up on the shores of Lake Michigan, Ben Makhlouf, now a researcher at SAFS, started off as an Ecology undergrad at UW. Taking a limnology course during his studies, he was inspired to get involved in research in Alaska when seeing someone with an Alaska Salmon Program t-shirt on. It amazed him that people were able to visit and work there.
He ended up being able to work in Alaska on a summer project involving otoliths as part of the Alaska Salmon Program and it lit his brain on fire.
Find out more about the path that led him to where he is now, carrying on his late mentor’s otolith microchemistry work, in a new episode of the The Fisheries Podcast.