Jacob A. Gorneau

I’m a graduate student at the California Academy of Sciences and UC Berkeley passionate about arthropod diversity, evolution, and outreach.

Publications

11. Gorneau, J.A., Cala-Riquelme, F., Crews, S.C., Montana, K.O., Spagna, J.C., Vink, C.J. and Esposito, L.A. 2024. Mystery on the Bounty: The family-level status of Pacificana cockayni Hogg, 1904 (Araneae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.

10. Gorneau, J.A., Cala‐Riquelme, F., Tourinho, A.L., and Esposito, L.A. 2024. Biodiversity of Arachnids, in: Scheiner, S.M.(Ed.), Encyclopedia of Biodiversity (Third Edition). Academic Press, Oxford, pp. 453–489.

9. Jain, P., Forbes, H., Gorneau, J.A., Esposito, L.A. 2023. A new species of alkali-sink Paruroctonus Werner, 1934 (Scorpiones, Vaejovidae) from California’s San Joaquin Valley. ZooKeys.

8. Gorneau, J.A., Crews, S.C., Cala-Riquelme, F., Montana, K.O., Spagna, J.C., Ballarin, F., Almeida-Silva, L.M. and Esposito, L.A. 2023. Webs of intrigue: museum genomics elucidate relationships of the marronoid spider clade (Araneae). Insect Systematics and Diversity.

7. Gorneau, J.A., Jones, L.D., Monzón-Sierra, J., & Dombroskie, J.J. 2023. Three new species of Argyresthia Hübner 1825 from Guatemala, with notes on host plant evolution and Nearctic taxa (Lepidoptera: Argyresthiidae). SHILAP Revista de Lepidopterología.

6. Gorneau, J.A., Kulkarni, S., Cala-Riquelme, F., & Esposito, L.A. 2023. Measuring what we don’t know: biodiversity catalogs reveal bias in taxonomic effort. BioScience.

5. Gorneau, J.A., Rayor, L.S., Rheims, C.S., & Moreau, C.S. 2023. Molecular, morphological, and life history data to support research of huntsman spiders (Araneae: Sparassidae). Data in Brief.

4. Gorneau, J.A., Rheims, C.A., Moreau, C.S., & Rayor, L.S. 2022. Huntsman spider phylogeny informs evolution of life history, egg sacs, and morphology. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.

3. Losey, J.E., Chen, C., Davis, A.E., Deitsch, J.F., Gertin, J.G., Gorneau, J.A., Hallock, E.M., Jordán, J.P., Kim, Z.J., Kubinski, E.G., Laurenz, N., Li, S.B., Mullen, E.K., O’Brien, A., Richardson, L.I., Vincent, S., Wang, S.Y., Yarhouse, E.L., Schydlowsky, A., & Curtis, P.D. 2022. Insect and spiders on the web: Monitoring and mitigating online exploitation of species and services. Global Ecology and Conservation.

2. Gorneau, J.A., Ausich, W.I., Bertolino, S., Bik, H., Daly, M., Demissew, S., Donoso, D.A., Folk, R., Freire-Fierro, A., Ghazanfar, S.A., Grace, O.M., Hu, A.Q., Kulkarni, S., Lichter-Marck, I.H., Lohmann, L.G., Malumbres-Olarte, J., Muasya A.M., Pérez-González, A., Singh, Y., Siniscalchi, C. M., Specht, C.D., Stigall, A.L., Tank, D.C., Walker, L.A., Wright, D.F., Zamani, A., & Esposito, L.A. 2022. Framing the Future for Monography: Improving Recognition, Support, and Access. Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists.

1. Esposito, L.A., Daly, M., Fujita, M.K., Gorneau, J.A., Rapacciuolo, G., Rocha, L., Scheinberg, L., Ware, J., Welch, C.K., Young, A., & Bell, R.C. 2022. A New Framework for Assessing the Contributions of Professionals in the Natural Sciences. Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists.


Presentations

* Indicates presenter, † indicates oral paper, § indicates poster presentation

Gorneau, J.A.*, Crews, S.C., Cala‐Riquelme, F., Montana, K., Esposito, L.A. Webs of intrigue: museum genomics elucidate relationships of the marronoid spiders (Araneae). Joint Annual Entomology Meeting, Montevideo, Uruguay. 2023. †

Gorneau, J.A.*, Crews, S.C., Cala-Riquelme, F., Kulkarni, S., Montana, K., Esposito, L.A. Webs of intrigue: museum genomics elucidate relationships of the marronoid spiders (Araneae). Joint Annual Entomology Meeting, Vancouver, Canada. 2022. †

Gorneau, J.A.*, Kulkarni, S., Cala‐Riquelme, F., Esposito, L.A. Biodiversity catalogs reveal taxonomic effort and geographic bias: a case study. SACNAS National Diversity in STEM, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA. 2022. †

Gorneau, J.A.*, Kulkarni, S., Cala‐Riquelme, F., Esposito, L.A. Biodiversity catalogs reveal taxonomic effort and geographic bias: a case study. American Arachnological Society, Davis, California, USA. 2022. †

Gorneau, J.A.*, Ausich, W.I., Bertolino, S., Bik, H., Daly, M., Demissew, S., Donoso, D.A., Folk, R., Freire-Fierro, A., Ghazanfar, S.A., Grace, O.M., Hu, A.Q., Kulkarni, S., Lichter-Marck, I.H., Lohmann, L.G., Malumbres-Olarte, J., Muasya A.M., Pérez-González, A., Singh, Y., Siniscalchi, C. M., Specht, C.D., Stigall, A.L., Tank, D.C., Walker, L.A., Wright, D.F., Zamani, A., & Esposito, L.A. Framing the Future for Monography: Improving Recognition, Support, and Access. Entomological Society of America, Denver, Colorado, USA. 2021. †

Gorneau, J.A.*, Rayor, L.S., Moreau, C.S. The evolution of huntsman spiders (Araneae: Sparassidae): insights into life history. American Arachnological Society Virtual Summer Symposium. 2020. †

Gorneau, J.A.*, Tartaglia, E. National Moth Week: Leveraging Citizen Science Data to Understand Bias and Biodiversity. Ninth Annual Cornell Entomology Symposium at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, USA. 2020. †

Gorneau, J.A., Goodman, A.M.*, Esposito, L.A. Niche partitioning among three vaejovid scorpions near the San Francisco Bay Area (Scorpiones: Vaejovidae). Mary Bowerman Research Symposium, California, USA. 2019. †

Gorneau, J.A.*, Goodman, A.M., Esposito, L.A. Niche partitioning among three vaejovid scorpions near the San Francisco Bay Area (Scorpiones: Vaejovidae). Cornell Undergraduate Research Board (CURB) Fall Forum at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, USA. 2019. §

Gorneau, J.A.*, Goodman, A.M., Esposito, L.A. Niche partitioning among three vaejovid scorpions near the San Francisco Bay Area (Scorpiones: Vaejovidae). SACNAS National Diversity in STEM Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. 2019. §

Rayor, L.S.*, Gorneau, J.A., Moreau, C.S. Trait-mapping sociality and life-history adaptations in social and solitary huntsman spiders. Animal Behavior Society in Chicago, Illinois, USA. 2019. †