Greg Jacobs
Postdoctoral Associate, Natural Resources and the Environment
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.
Education
- PhD, Ecology, University of Georgia
- MS, Resource Ecology and Management, University of Michigan
- BS, Biology, Alma College
Recent Research
- 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
- 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.
Contact Information
gj93 [at] cornell.edu