Jessica Diallo

Thanks so much, @jwinkfish.bsky.social!

I'm excited to share that I've graduated with my PhD from @uwsafs.bsky.social, with a dissertation focused on the lifetime trophic ecology of fishes and invasive species management!
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Thank you to @oldenfish.bsky.social for your mentorship and support!

@streamnerd.bsky.social thank you, glad to hear it!!

The impact of invasive fishes lasts a lifetime -
we found lifetime trophic shifts in native species using fish eye lens stable isotope analysis coupled with otolith growth measurements 🐟 👁️ 📈

Check out the new pub with @oldenfish.bsky.social
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Map of tributaries within Trout Creek, AZ watershed where the Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD) conducted green sunfish removals. Removal sites are identified by points. Panel A is the watershed including all removal sites, panel B is East Ash Creek, and panel C is McGee Wash. Panel D is AZGFD biologist David Partridge using a backpack electrofisher to remove fish from East Ash Creek (photo credit Gregg Cummins), panel E is a net full of green sunfish (photo credit Julian Olden), panel F is one of the pools in McGee Wash (photo credit Andy Stites), and panel G is a close up of a green sunfish caught in Burro Creek within the Bill Williams River basin, AZ (photo credit Jessica Diallo). Bottom left inset shows the greater region with the Bill Williams River basin in dark brown and a red star identifying the location of green sunfish removals.

🆕 in "Ecological Applications": Simulations based on real invasive fish removal programs point to alternative management strategies that efficiently—and effectively—control invasive organisms

📄Optimizing control of a freshwater invader in time and space
doi.org/10.1002/eap....

Excited to see my first PhD chapter published this week in Ecological Applications!

Fish eye lens dissection under a microscope.

Two fish otoliths imaged under a microscope.

Featuring these tiny, but informative, structures: fish eye lens (left) and otoliths (right)

Curious how fish eye lenses and otoliths can be used to uncover individual time series of trophic ecology?

Attend my upcoming seminar at NOAA this Thursday!
May 8th, 11am PDT, webinar link below

www.fisheries.noaa.gov/west-coast/s...

A holiday card featuring a hand-painted Sonora sucker wearing a santa hat.

Merry Fishmas! 🎄 Thank you, @clairevaage.bsky.social, for this beautiful holiday card featuring a Sonora sucker, one of my favorite fish 😍

A Holiday List Of River Books What do global decision makers need to prioritize rivers? With the holiday season upon us, perhaps they need some good reading material. Not stuffy policy briefs, but a great book to curl up with by t...

This coming year we need the world to focus on rivers.

For that, and for your last-minute holiday shopping, here's my list of best books about rivers & water.

Prioritizing rivers needs both head & heart, so list has both fiction & non-fiction.
www.forbes.com/sites/jeffop...

Taking a deeper look: using fish eye lenses to explore invasive fish impacts on native fish communities

Check out this article with @uwsafs.bsky.social for more details on my research - featuring fish eyes and otoliths!
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Jessica electrofishing to capture fish in a stream

Jessica using a microscope in a lab

Hey everyone! I'm a PhD candidate at the University of Washington and my research focuses on the impacts of invasive fishes on native fish trophic ecology & how to mitigate those impacts via invasive species management 🐟 🔬 🧪