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SFOS Newsletter
Fall 2008

Alumni news
Where are they now?

Joel Markis recieved an M.S. in marine biology in 2007 and is now a research biologist in Homer. Photo by Benjamin Daly.

•Robert Byrd, M.S. Ocean Engineering, University of Alaska.
Byrd is an engineer with Twachtman, Snyder & Byrd, Inc., in Houston, Texas.

•Ben Carney, M.S. Fisheries, 1994.
Carney is a teacher at Juneau-Douglas High School and the coach for the Juneau-Douglas teams at the NOSB Alaska Region Tsunami Bowl.

•Jill Chantarachoti, M.S. Seafood Science, 2007.
Chantarachoti works for the New Zealand Institute for Crop and Food.

•Warner Lew, M.S. Fisheries, 1991.
Lew is the fleet manager for Bristol Bay for Icicle Seafoods.

•Joel Markis, M.S. Marine Biology, 2007.
Markis is a fisheries research biologist at the Kachemak Bay Research Reserve in Homer. Markis' research focuses on marine ecology and fish habitat use in the nearshore environment of Kachemak Bay.

•Jeffrey Short, Ph.D. Fisheries, 2005.
Short is a research chemist wih NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service at the Ted Stevens Marine Research Institute in Juneau.

•Laura Slater, M.S. Marine Biology, 2004.
Slater works for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game Commercial Fisheries Division as the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands Tanner/Snow Crab Research Biologist, in Kodiak.