Greg Jacobs

NE CASC Postdoctoral Fellow

Postdoctoral Associate

Cornell University

Research Interests

I am interested in how life history, movement, and migration of organisms drive population dynamics and biotic interactions; how human activity may interact with these processes; and how such information may better inform conservation and restoration of aquatic systems. I pursue these interests using a variety of tools to investigate the population ecology and conservation of (mostly) freshwater and diadromous fishes; including studying how temporal and spatial variation in environmental conditions can influence migratory fish life cycles, and how migrations influence the productivity of tributary stream ecosystems.

Project

Energy and nutrient dynamics supporting fish production in the Boardman-Ottaway River, Michigan prior to restoring connectivity

Education

PhD, University of Georgia, 2021

MS, University of Michigan, 2008

BS, Alma College, 2005

Experience

Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of the Environment, University of Windsor, 2022-Present

Post-doctoral Associate, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, Cornell University, 2021-Present

Graduate Student, Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, 2015-2021

Fish Biologist GS-11, USFWS Northeast Fishery Center, 2010-2014

Fishery Research Technician, USGS Great Lakes Science Center, 2009-2010

Graduate Student, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Michigan, 2005-2008

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Publications

Jacobs, G.R., R.F. Thurow, J.M. Buffington, D.J. Isaak, S.J.Wenger. 2021. Disturbance, climate, and habitat: understanding the distribution of Chinook salmon redds in a large river network. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 150:8-23. *Featured Paper

Valentine, M.J., B. Ciraola, G.R. Jacobs, C. Arnot, P.J. Kelly, C.C. Murdock. 2020. Effects of seasonality and land use on the diversity, relative abundance, and distribution of mosquitoes on St. Kitts,West Indies. Parasites & Vectors 13(1):1-14.

Kough, A.S., G.R. Jacobs, D. Gorsky, P.W. Willink. 2018. Diel timing of Lake Sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) activity revealed by satellite tags in the Laurentian Great Lake Basin. Journal of Great Lakes Research 44(1):157-165.

Jacobs, G.R., E.K. Bruestle, A. Hussey, D. Gorsky, and A. Fisk. 2017. Invasive species alter ontogenetic shifts in the trophic ecology of Lake Sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) in the Niagara River and Lake Ontario. Biological Invasions 19(5):1533-1546.