Cave Bio Lab

The Cave Bio Lab at UAH studying the ecology, evolution, and conservation of cave life.

[Cave Bio Lab @cavebiolab]

Gonna get worse before it gets better. A lot of students, post docs, and colleagues on soft money are going to suffer. #nsf #Project2025

[Cave Bio Lab @cavebiolab]

Snow Day in Alabama! #alwx #snowday #huntsville

@spann

[Cave Bio Lab @cavebiolab]

Dr. Niemiller was a guest today on the "This is Nashville" daily show on WPLN to talk about cave life at The Caverns (Big Mouth Cave) in Grundy County, Tennessee.

#caves #tennessee #cavelife

@thecaverns

[This Is Nashville @ThisIsNashville]

90 minutes from Nashville you can enjoy a concert in a cave. Musicians and fans journey to The Caverns for a unique experience. Today we’ll hear the story behind the venue - and from performers and fans about what it's really like there. Natural history lesson included! Join us!

[Danté Fenolio, Ph.D. @DanteFenolio]

Spring Cavefish (Forbesichthys agassizii, top) are pigmented and have functional eyes; most of the relatives to springfishes and swampfishes are cavefishes that do not exhibit much in the way of pigments and do not have eyes-Southern Cavefish (Typhlichthys subterraneus, bottom).

[Danté Fenolio, Ph.D. @DanteFenolio]

A fun “half and half” shot depicting a beautiful cave crayfish in the Appalachian cave stream where it is found. I am thankful for the many times I have been able to meet these special subterranean species in their groundwater habitats.

[Nathaniel St. Clair @NatStClair]

For the first time in 114 years, biologists from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife have observed a fall-run Chinook salmon returning to spawn in the Klamath Basin in Oregon, after dam removal.

[Cave Bio Lab @cavebiolab]

The lab started our project studying the status and genetics of the Dougherty Plains Cave Crayfish and Georgia Blind Salamander in Florida this past week. These stygobionts inhabit the Florida Aquifer, one of the most threatened aquifers in the U.S.

[Max Lambert 🦫🦅🦌🐢🐸🏙💦 @MaxRLambert]

JOB: Pond Biodiversity Tech ($3,376-$4,497)

On my team & with @jesslsandoval!

Help us study birds, amphibians, & beaver in urban & natural ponds in Washington

🐸🦫🐦🦢

#UrbanConservation #UrbanEcology

https://t.co/KP3nZBqqLV

[Max Lambert 🦫🦅🦌🐢🐸🏙💦 @MaxRLambert]

JOB: State Herpetologist for Washington

Our state is creating a 2nd State Herpetologist position for our many amphibians & reptiles in need

Great job at a great agency & with many great salamanders, frogs, lizards, snakes, & turtles

🐢🐸🦎🐍

https://t.co/KaHaQy446G

[Jeremy Tiemann @jayhawktiemann]

Devastating news as an amazing @INHSillinois co-worker was recently diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer. Sarah, mother of 3, has done great work on various fish projects in her limited time here. If you can, please help support her & her family as she fights to beat this.

[Stygofauna Mundi @stygofaunamundi]

Tweeting about a paper with records from caves, springs, wells, or interstitial habitats in sandy beaches or rivers?
Please, tag us! We will include the information in our database, making this information even more accessible to other researchers.
@MEG_Verbania @LifeWatchIT

[Illinois Natural History Survey @INHSillinois]

🔹 Apply by Sept. 30! 🔹

The #INHS @illinois_river is #hiring an aquatic #ecology database #developer!

For details ➡️ https://t.co/l4Ml2FFuEt

@LamerJim @IllinoisCS #FishyFriday #fishsci #WomenInSTEM #BLACKandSTEM

[Subterranean Biology @subtbiol]

📢 NEW Editor-in-Chief: Dr Fabio Stoch, @ULBruxelles
Following his appointment, our journal is to further focus on #conservation, monitoring & #EcosystemServices of subterranean environments, and embrace integrated approach & novel research methods.
🔗See: https://t.co/MhE5aSy7B8

[Dr. Pamela Hart @ihartcaves]

The Burress Lab: Now Open! Ed's lab will fill up quickly! Come join a dynamic & supportive group of scholars in @UaDeptBSC.

[Rocky Mtn Caving @RockyMtnCaving]

Collegiate researchers from Georgia visited Colorado's Sulphur Cave at Steamboat Springs with biologist David Steinmann this week. The deadly cave is home to unique lifeforms and cave features. https://t.co/AboTvQqZLG #caves #colorado

[Mammoth Cave NP @MammothCaveNP]

After several weeks of dry weather it’s nice to see water running over the edge of the Historic Entrance this morning.

[Mammoth Cave NP @MammothCaveNP]

2022 marks the 50th Anniversary of the Flint-Ridge-Mammoth Cave Connection that made Mammoth Cave the longest cave system in the world. We will celebrate this milestone on September 7-10. For more information visit: https://t.co/jZ9zjSnkeI

[Subterranean Biology @subtbiol]

Believed to have gone extinct after nobody saw it for decades, the Shelta #Cave #Crayfish recently made an exciting reappearance!

📰 Story by @Outdoors720 below

📙 Study by @cavemander17: https://t.co/Efs4B0gGmZ

https://t.co/EOFtuFUGWY

[Katie O'Reilly @DrKatfish]

Indiana: The state doesn’t actually have an official state fish, so I suggest Hoosier catfish (Amblyopsis hoosieri). This cave-dwelling, completely blind catfish was first described from south IN in 2014 by @PREAUX_FISH et al #FishOfJuly (📷:@cavemander17) https://t.co/UzQCArgRRb

[Subterranean Biology @subtbiol]

🤔 How must it feel to rediscover a species thought extinct for decades?

@cavemander17 of @uahuntsville speaks about the rare Shelta #crayfish, endemic to a single Alabama #cave, discovered for the first time in 30 years.

https://t.co/OnO3ld0oKq