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Jacob Watson, Masters student. Hailing from Illinois, Jacob has gained a diversity of ecology experience through his work in Montana, Illinois, and, most recently, Missouri. Jacob came to the Larson lab in the spring of 2025 to work with the imperiled pilose crayfish of Wyoming’s Bear River watershed and contribute to a collaborative effort with Wyoming state and nonprofit entities to study conservation pressures for the species in the basin. He is largely interested in stream ecology, restoration ecology, and freshwater invertebrate conservation, hoping to work in the overlap of these areas to study, mitigate, and reverse human-driven impacts on stream ecosystem function and integrity.