My Students
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My Students
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| Current Students: | ||
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My Students |
Matt Afflerbaugh - Matt is studying shovlenose
sturgeon in Pool 20 of the Mississippi River
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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. |
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| Brett Feger - Brett will be studying fish habitat in Spring Lake. He will be comparing natural structure to artificial structure. |
Brett with a paddlefish we caught on a COLD day on the Mississippi.
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| Marc Miller - Marc is studying 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. |
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| Greg Snellen - Greg is using both radio and sonic tags to track lake sturgeon all over the Upper Mississippi River |
Greg holding a nice shovelnose sturgeon. |
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| Jeff Stepping - Jeff's work will involve the invasive Asian carp and their effect on shovelnose sturgeon. |
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| Jared Woodcock - Jared is looking at the fish communities associated with artificial habitat structures in extreme Northwestern Illinois |
Jared (foreground, left), Nick Bloomfield, and Jared's brothers Heath and Shane sampling Irish Hollow Creek with an electric seine. |
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| Tristan Widloe | ||
| Former Students: | ||
| Kraig McPeek - Kraig works for the US Fish and Wildlife Service in Rock Island, IL. His thesis looked at Newbury weirs and their effects on the fish community. |  |
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| Dave Wyffles - Dave is an assistant fish biologist for the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife. He studied the changes in fish communities as farm ponds grew older. |
Dave with a walleye he probably snagged. |
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| Mike McClelland - Mike is currently employed by the Illinois Natural History Survey (when he's not hunting). His thesis concentrated on changes in the fish community of the IL River. |
Mike caught this in Alaska. |
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| Sara Pfiefer - Sara investigated the effect of size asymmetry and residency on aggressive interactions in Flameback cichlids. |
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Craig Schaffer - Craig 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. |
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| Nichol Smith - Nichol studied the crappie population in Spring Lake for her undergraduate honors thesis. |
Nichol with a monster crappie! |
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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. |
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| Coming Soon: | ||
