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Robert Fournier

@robfour.bsky.social
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Ecologist, postdoc at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Barbara. Incoming assistant professor at UNF. www.robertjfournier.com

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Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory @ucsbenioffocean.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Happy World Oceans Day! 🌊 Today, we celebrate the ocean and reaffirm our commitment to protecting it for future generations. Swipe to learn more about how our research supports ocean conservation around the world. #WorldOceansDay Photo Credit: 1, 4 Michele du Plo 9 Christophe Chellapermal
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Robert Fournier @robfour.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I'm very excited to announce that I’ll be joining the University of North Florida as an Assistant Professor! I’m so grateful for the support and collaborations that made this possible.
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Robert Fournier @robfour.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
So excited to share our new paper out today in Ecological Applications @esajournals.bsky.social! We used time-series modeling explore ecological risk for fishes and their prey in the San Francisco Estuary during key phenological windows that shape food web dynamics. dx.doi.org/10.1002/eap....
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Phenology‐informed decline risk of estuarine fishes and their prey suggests potential for future trophic mismatches
Conservation scientists have long used population viability analysis (PVA) on species count data to quantify critical decline risk, thereby informing conservation actions. These assessments typically...
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Albert Ruhí @albertruhi.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Billions of gallons of water flow daily through California’s water projects. In this National Academies Report we examined key actions to protect endangered fish & Bay-Delta ecosystems while considering human water needs nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2913... #WaterResources #CentralValleyProject
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Review of the Long-Term Operations of the Central Valley Project and the State Water Project
Read online, download a free PDF, or order a copy in print.
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Robert Fournier @robfour.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
At my first Western Society of Naturalists meeting presenting some of our work looking at sea otter restoration! Looking forward to introducing myself to a new scientific society and engaging with a new audience. Please reach out if you want to connect! #WSN2025
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Rose Mohammadi @rosemohammadi.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
How vulnerable are riparian trees to drought? Using groundwater and satellite data from a California waterhsed, our new paper found that trees by drying rivers lost up to 5 weeks of growing season, suggesting they’re nearing critical groundwater limits. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Groundwater and Remotely Sensed Phenology Reveal Vulnerability of Riparian Trees to Drought
We asked how vulnerable riparian trees are to droughts, examining their water use and growing season timing and duration via groundwater data and satellite imagery. Drought shortened the growing seas...
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Albert Ruhí @albertruhi.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Does tidal marsh #restoration "work", if the goal is bringing back key species AND the trophic interactions that support them? A thousand stable isotope samples later, we have answers! 💯 work by PhD student Megan Pagliaro: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #SanFrancisco #BayDelta
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Does tidal marsh restoration lead to the recovery of trophic pathways that support estuarine fishes?
Evaluation of tidal marsh restoration success is typically based on the recovery of habitat size and target species. However, food-web structure may provide valuable insight into ecosystem functionin...
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Albert Ruhí @albertruhi.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Looking for a postdoc, and interested in river-coastal linkages, #remote sensing, and time series analysis? Come work with us @natureatcal.bsky.social on an exciting project led by @rachelspatial.bsky.social! CC @sfs-src.bsky.social @aslo.org @cerfscience.bsky.social ‪‪@caseagrant.bsky.social‬
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Ethan Tolman @ethantolman.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
So great to see our work on blue dasher dragonflies highlighted in the New York Times. Excellent piece by @cjgiaimo.bsky.social! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/s...
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Meet the Beautiful Dragonfly That Thrives in Your Pollution
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Robert Fournier @robfour.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Anyone at #esa2025 this year? Get in touch!
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Albert Ruhí @albertruhi.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Read the full story here -> aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... Thanks to the the International Associated Laboratory "MacLife" for funding! CC @matbuoro.bsky.social @fishteph.bsky.social @natureatcal.bsky.social
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Prolonged low flows and non‐native fish operate additively to alter insect emergence in mountain streams
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
UC-Berkeley has an open-rank faculty position in our incredible Climate Equity and Environmental Justice (CEEJ) research cluster. It is an extraordinary interdisciplinary group working across multiple colleges and departments at the university! More information here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04842
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Assistant/Associate/Full Professor - Climate Equity and Environmental Justice - Rausser College of Natural Resources
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory @ucsbenioffocean.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
👥 10 students. 🌎 1 mission: a healthier planet. Meet the 2025 Benioff Scholars—driving real-world solutions to some of the planet’s most pressing environmental challenges.
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Berkeley Rausser College of Natural Resources @natureatcal.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
An international, interdisciplinary group focused on advancing seaweed research, cultivation, and application gathered at UC Berkeley in early May for the inaugural workshop of the International Bioeconomy and Macroalgae Center.
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Conference fosters connection in growing seaweed industry
The inaugural workshop of the International Bioeconomy and Macroalgae Center convened an international, interdisciplinary group to focus on advancing seaweed research, cultivation, and application.
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Stephanie Carlson @fishteph.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
This threat represents an immeasurable loss to community-driven research and to the training pipeline for the next generation of collaborative conservation leaders
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Akira Terui @mlaevis.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
New collaborative paper out in Ecology - subsidy timing matters in producing intraspecific life-history diversity; Led by Rui Ueda at Kyoto University esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Seasonal timing of ecosystem linkage mediates life‐history variation in a salmonid fish population
Life-history variation can contribute to the long-term persistence of populations; however, it remains unclear which environmental factors drive life-history variation within a population. Seasonally...
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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Professors at USGS coop units were absolutely critical parts of my education at 3 different universities. They're probably affiliated with more useful conservation research than any other agency on earth. Join the rally to defend science next week! 🌎🐟🦉🐍🦊🌿🧪 #hydrology #Invert mobilize.us/s/JyAqUI
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Virtual Rally to Save the Cornerstone of Conservation Science · National Wildlife Federation
We need YOU as we rally in support of _critical_ federal government services at risk of being lost forever. The U.S. Geological Survey Ecosystems Mission Area is responsible for many of the programs t...
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Racist and sexist roots in the cancellation of NSF grants under Trump: Grants with female PIs canceled 2x more than men Grants with Black PIs canceled 4x over White PIs Grants with Hispanic PIs canceled 2x over White PIs Grants with PIs with disabilities canceled 2x more than without
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Eric R. Larson @ericrlarson.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
The result of nearly two decades of work, my coauthors and I have just described two new crayfish species from western North America: introducing the Misfortunate Crayfish and Okanagan Crayfish (doi.org/10.11646/zoo...). More to follow soon, but it should be open access - message if you need a PDF.
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Genome skimming supports two new crayfish species from the genus Pacifastacus Bott, 1950 (Decapoda: Astacidae) | Zootaxa
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
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What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.
Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.
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Albert Ruhí @albertruhi.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Happy about this one, skillfully led by Adrianne Smits & w/ many great coauthors!-> "Despite substantial increases in the volume of #freshwater data collected worldwide, many regions and ecosystems still lack sufficient data collection and access." esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Too much and not enough data: Challenges and solutions for generating information in freshwater research and monitoring
Evaluating progress toward achieving freshwater conservation and sustainability goals requires transforming diverse types of data into useful information for scientists, managers, and other interest ...
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Zeynep Ersoy @zzeynepersoy.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
📢 GLOSSAQUA is out in Ecology @esajournals.bsky.social. Big collaboration w/40+ coauthors led by myself, @chaevangelista.bsky.social & @ignasiarranz.bsky.social. It compiles global size spectra parameters from aquatic ecosystems globally👉: doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... #datapaper #aquaticecology 🌍🧪🧵(1/4)
Locations of aquatic studies included in the dataset (n = 135 studies) classified within eight biogeographic realms. The sizes of the circles are proportional to the number of studies per country in each biogeographic realm.
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Albert Ruhí @albertruhi.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Looking for a quantitative ecology #postdoc? Check out this opening on time-series modeling of estuarine food webs - based in my group @natureatcal.bsky.social, in collaboration w/ State agency scientists. Apply ASAP - review of applications starts Apr 4. More info: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04818
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Postdoc Employee – Quantitative ecology – ESPM: Organisms & The Environment
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Yuen Huo, Ph.D. @yuenhuo.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
University of California announced a systemwide hiring freeze. This affects not 1 but 10 campuses (including UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco, UC San Diego among others) plus 3 national labs with impact on medical and scientific research and local economies. www.reuters.com/world/us/uni...
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University of California sets hiring freeze in anticipation of Trump cuts
The University of California has imposed a system-wide hiring freeze and made additional cuts, its president said on Wednesday, as part of efforts to try to mitigate the impact of sharp cuts in federal funding.
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Auriel Fournier @rallidaerule.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
As a USGS Coop Alum (PhD at the Arkansas Unit) this is incredibly alarming. These units are key engines of applied research and training of the next generation of scientists, biologists and land managers. My peers are now leaders across state and federal agencies, non profits and universities.
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Hank Baker @hankbaker.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Delighted to share our new paper in Ecology Letters: Variation in Salmon Migration Phenology Bolsters Population Dynamics but is Threatened by Drought. With @fishteph.bsky.social, Ted Grantham, and Mariska Obedzinski. #rivers #fishes #salmon 🧪🐟 🧵(1/8) doi.org/10.1111/ele....
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Variation in Salmon Migration Phenology Bolsters Population Stability but Is Threatened by Drought
We show that intrapopulation variation in juvenile movement and rearing strategies enhances population stability in endangered coho salmon near their southern range limit. However, variation in reari...
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Berkeley Rausser College of Natural Resources @natureatcal.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
A 12-year-long study led by @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social and @caseagrant.bsky.social researchers finds that the alternative life histories of coho salmon have made their populations more stable. Read more at the Stone Center for Environmental Stewardship site. nature.berkeley.edu/stewardship/...
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Diversity in Coho Salmon Could Be Key to Species Survival
The Russian River estuary just downstream of the confluence with Willow Creek. New research published today in Ecology Letters from the Stone Center found that coho salmon, one of five Pacific salmon...
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Wade Boys @boyswillbebugs.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Check out my favorite dissertation chapter 👇🏻 made possible by @adamsiepielski.bsky.social, & former lab mates Tara Lanzer and Taylor Ping, who helped me assay hundreds of bugs when covid restrictions were in place.
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Albert Ruhí @albertruhi.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
If you're interested in river drying and cross-ecosystem linkages, check out our new Ecology paper led by undergraduate extraordinaire Amin al-Jamal! -> Aquatic top predator prefers terrestrial prey in an intermittent stream esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Robert Fournier @robfour.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
A really cool paper from our incredibly talented former undergraduate, Amin al-Jamal (so far bluesky-less) is out in Ecology! It’s also my first senior author paper! We looked at the feeding habits of everyone’s “favorite” predatory stream insect—the giant water bug. doi.org/10.1002/ecy....
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Aquatic top predator prefers terrestrial prey in an intermittent stream
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Amaïa Lamarins @alamarins.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Which exploitation strategy should be adopted for salmonid metapopulations? 🎣 Could knowledge of source-sink dynamics improve their management? Our latest paper is just out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Simulations results 📈 suggest being not selective as the best strategy 💡
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Robert Fournier @robfour.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
What a good way to ring in the new year! Our new paper is (finally) out in Ecology Letters! doi.org/10.1111/ele.... We looked at climate driven phenological patterns across food webs in the San Francisco, Chesapeake, and Massachusetts Bay estuaries.
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Long‐term data reveal widespread phenological change across major US estuarine food webs
Climate change is shifting the timing of organismal life-history events. Although consequential food-web mismatches can emerge if predators and prey shift at different rates, research on phenological...
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Hank Baker @hankbaker.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Grateful to be in a lab that loves watching fish as much as I do. @fishteph.bsky.social @roygbivv.bsky.social @robfour.bsky.social And the rest of the Berkeley freshwater labs crew
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Albert Ruhí @albertruhi.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
Really happy to see this one out, superbly led by Tadeu Siqueira & with the participation of a great team! On how the mechanisms conferring community stability vary across trophic levels in freshwater ecosystems: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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