My Students

My Students

	Current Students:
My Students My Classes Biology Jobs List server Boat Calendar Home	Matt Afflerbaugh - Matt is studying shovlenose sturgeon in Pool 20 of the Mississippi River	Matt holding a shovelnose sturgeon.
	Nick Bloomfield - Nick is tracking tagged juvenile lake sturegon in the Upper Mississippi River	Nick with one of his tagged lake sturgeon.
	Nerissa Michaels - Nerissa works at the Illinois History Survey while she is working on her Master's Degree. Her thesis will involve the restoration of a huge wetland on the Emiquon Preserve.	Nerissa at work holding a state record white bass which was returned to the Illinois River.
	Josh Sherwood - Josh will be sampling mussels in the LaMoine and Spoon Rivers. He will use GIS to compare distribution patterns of the mussels to the watershed land use.	Josh in full mussel sampling regalia.
	Tristan Widloe - Tristan is sampling channel catfish in 2 very different environments on the Mississippi River. He will compare catfish diets between the two sites.	Tristan with a nice white crappie he shocked up in a local farm pond.
	Samantha Worthington - Sam is studying bowfins in the Mississippi and Illinois River backwaters. She will be collecting basic population demographics on these populations.	Sam holding a nice bowfin she caught during the summer of 2009.
	TD VanMiddlesworth - TD is working at the IL Natural History Survey office in Havana. He will be working with the fish community in the Emiquon Preserve.	TD holding a nice flatty!

	Former Students:

	Brett Feger - Brett studied fish habitat in Spring Lake. He compared natural structure to artificial structure.	Brett with a paddlefish we caught on a COLD day on the Mississippi.
	Marc Miller - Marc studied capture methods of lake sturgeon in the Upper Mississippi River	Marcus with a lake sturgeon. Autographed copies of the above photo are available from the Missouri Department of Conservation.
	Jared Woodcock - Jared's thesis built upon Kraig McPeek's work in JoDaviess County, IL. He compared artificial riffles to their accompanying pools to see how the native fish community responded to the artificial riffles.	Jared (foreground, left), Nick Bloomfield, and Jared's brothers Heath and Shane sampling Irish Hollow Creek with an electric seine.
	Greg Snellen - Greg's thesis explored the movement and habitat selection of lake sturgeon in the Upper Mississippi River.	Greg holding a nice shovelnose sturgeon.
	Kraig McPeek - Kraig's thesis looked at Newbury weirs and their effects on the fish community.
	Dave Wyffles - Dave studied the changes in fish communities as farm ponds grew older.	Dave with a walleye he probably snagged.
	Mike McClelland - Mike concentrated on changes in the fish community of the IL River.	Mike caught this in Alaska.
	Sara Pfiefer - Sara investigated the effect of size asymmetry and residency on aggressive interactions in Flameback cichlids.
Undergrads:
	Courtney Cluney - Courtney is studying the zooplankton in Spring Lake as part of her undergraduate honor's thesis.	picture coming soon!
	Brittany Peterson - Brittany's undergraduate honors thesis focused on the effect of water quality on alarm pheromones in fathead minnows.	Brittany showing her poster at the Undergraduate Research Day.
	Craig Schaffer - Craig is a fish technician in Florida. He sampled the East Fork of the LaMoine River (which runs right through the WIU campus) and some of its tributaries to investigate what species of fish live there.	Craig in his "Ghostbusters" backpack electroshocking outfit.
	Nichol Smith - Nichol studied the crappie population in Spring Lake for her undergraduate honors thesis.	Nichol with a monster crappie!
	Carrie Shimkus - Carrie completed her undergraduate honors thesis which looked at the fish community of Chaney Creek near the Kibbe Field Station.	Carrie (foreground) running a probe on the electric seine.