Jacob Westhoff

Check out my recent publication to understand the relationship between population-level and community-level diversity metrics and how fragmentation affects those relationships for crayfishes? peerj.com/articles/18006/

New published paper! Two new species of crayfish from southern Brazil! Now, there are 25 species of Parastacus. I described 16 :)

@craylipe Your logo is fantastic!

My lab new logo! Integrative Biology of Crustaceans Lab (Ribeiro’s Lab)

@MidSized_Rivers You need to come back for a visit and check it off your list! They are such unique fish.

@JacobWesthoff This is one I never got to see! I never caught them in the Gasconade & I forgot my snorkel mask the last time I floated the Big Piney ☹️

Bluestripe Darters are difficult to come by this summer, but every now and then we get one in the net. This fantastic crew has put in great work this summer and is putting dots on the map and collecting important genetic data.

Our mussel surveys on the Current and Jack's Fork are almost wrapped up. Our lab found lots of interesting things despite the overall scarcity of mussels in the system.

Our lab is tracking crayfish with multiple methods. We have VIE, p-chip, PIT, and radio tags out at multiple sites. The data we obtain from these efforts will shed new light on crayfish movement.

Check out the Summary of our Program's 2023 Year in Review. See our productivity, mission, cross-cutting science, DEIA strategy, and stats! Image: drake mallard by Alena Rinaldi, USGS, with permission. pubs.usgs.gov/publication/fs…

@BarryBiome @Rachel_L_Moran Looks like a great setup!

@Rachel_L_Moran woohoooo!

Inaugural filling of our DIY flow through system! (My lab is amazing and built all of this from scratch, I just contributed funds 😂)

Interested in working in the Ozarks of Missouri this summer surveying rare fishes? @MDC_online is currently accepting applications online at the link below jobs.mdc.mo.gov/job/Columbia-R…

@DanteFenolio Very interesting approach. If you don't mind my asking, which species are you marking and who are you working with? I do some cave crayfish work in the Ozarks and this method is intriguing.

We are performing a capture-mark-release-recapture study on an Ozark cave crayfish species. We want to be able to look at movement, growth, and population size in this imperiled species. Giving crayfish UV reflective tattoos is crazy business (scale in cm/mm).

Neat opportunity for a postdoc to study climate change impacts to fish communities in midwestern national park units. Please retweet and message me if you have questions. nationalparks.org/sip-fisheries-…

I am thankful for Barrens Topminnows (Fundulus julisia)

MS Graduate Research Assistantship position within @MUCAFNRresearch and @USGSCoopUnits identifying coldwater streams in MO. Email me with questions.

Needing to conduct trait analysis on freshwater mussels in the USA? Led by Garrett Hopper, we (@irene1sanchez, @mud_Iark, @thepopenjay, @PhishBiologist, & others) have the resource for you that is fresh off the "press": nature.com/articles/s4159…

This Wednesday, October 25th, Dr. Jim Stoeckel and his graduate student Nick Barnes from Auburn University will present results of previous and ongoing studies and discuss strengths and weaknesses of each approach. Learn more and register at the #linkinbio.

@MOfishlab It went it great. We all felt much better about it after it was in.

@JacobWesthoff Great. So decided to install the third one. Fingers crossed it stays!

Most days I sit behind a desk and stare at a screen. But sometimes, I get to do the fun parts of science. We installed 3 PIT antennas in the Big Piney River over the last two days and I can't wait for the aquatic organism movement data to start rolling in!

A great, fully-funded MS position to work on patch-nosed salamanders @ Clemson University with Dr. Cathy Jachowski, but also working closely with our lab here at KSU. Share with folks who might be interested! wfscjobs.tamu.edu/jobs/m-s-assis…