ECR Spotlight – Keoni Chong

ECR Spotlight is a series of interviews with early-career authors from a selection of papers published in Journal of Experimental Biology and aims to promote not only the diversity of early-career researchers (ECRs) working in experimental biology but also the huge variety of animals and physiological systems that are essential for the ‘comparative’ approach. Keoni Chong is an author on ‘ Navigating turbulence: the effects of eddy size on the swimming performance of walleye (Sander vitreus) larvae’, published in JEB. Keoni conducted the research described in this article while an MSc graduate student in Josef Ackerman's lab at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Keoni is now an Aquatic Research Biologist in the lab of Yingming Zhao at the Ministry of Natural Resources – Science and Research Branch, Wheatley, Ontario, Canada, investigating how fish interact with their environment during vulnerable early life stages, and how these interactions shape their habitat use, behaviour and population dynamics.