| Robert
(Bob) Hrabik supervises Missouri’s Open Rivers and Wetlands
Field Station located in Jackson, MO. Mr. Hrabik has a Master’s
of Natural Science degree from Southeast Missouri State University
and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
He began his career as a fish systematics research collections manager
for the University of Nebraska State Museum in 1982 and also worked
as a fisheries technician with the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
from 1984 to 1986. In 1986, he was hired by the Missouri Department
of Conservation as a Fisheries Management Specialist and promoted
to Biologist in 1989. Mr. Hrabik was hired to lead the newly created
Long Term Resource Monitoring Program, Open River Field Station
in 1991 and has developed the monitoring station into a biological
research facility with statewide responsibility for large river
and floodplain ecology. His research interests include fish taxonomy
and systematics, fish distribution and zoogeography, and stream
ecology. Bob is an avid fish collector and has collected fish over
much of the United States. He is currently co-authoring a field
guide to the Fishes of Nebraska.
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