Ben Frable completed Bachelor’s degrees in Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences and Biology: Ecology and Evolution at the University of Washington. He received his M.Sc. from Oregon State University, researching neotropical characiform fish evolution and biogeography. He has been Collection Manager of the Marine Vertebrate Collection at SIO since 2016. He is most interested in species-level relationships, phylogenetics, systematics, and biogeography. What are the boundaries between species? How long have lineages been separated and why? How have groups diversified over geological timescales? He is not taxon-specific and has worked on: anglerfishes, cuskeels, dragonfishes, damselfishes, deep-sea eels, eelpouts, groupers, lizardfishes, rockfishes, wrasses, sharks, and headstanding characins (superfamily Anostomoidea).
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