Brandon Harris, a large river ecologist, spoke to Inside Climate News about the spread of invasive species of scud (an amphipod) known as Apocorophium lacustre.
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Using long-term data to improve sportfish monitoring in Illinois Rivers
Researchers at the Illinois River Biological Station wrote an article for Outdoor Illinois Journal about how our long-term electrofishing program supports sportfish management and conservation in Illinois’ major rivers.
Illinois one step closer to keeping invasive carp out of Great Lakes
In a recent article by WBEZ Chicago, Joe Greendyk and Mike Spear discuss IRBS’s long-term invasive carp and native fish surveys in the Illinois River as the Brandon Road Interbasin Project progresses.
Some shovelnose sturgeon in Illinois are huge and researchers are fishing for reasons why
Stefan Tucker, a large river ecologist at IRBS, was featured in an article from Inside Climate News about his research on shovelnose sturgeon in the Rock River.
Our Approach to Invasive Carp
Four researchers at IRBS write about the approach they’re taking in the Outdoor Illinois Journal: Monitoring to Manage: The Multi-Agency Approach to Invasive Carp in Illinois.
May & June 2019 Flooding on the Illinois River
IRBS staff members filled sandbags and assembled a muscle wall to prevent the station from being flooded with a predicted crest on the Illinois River in Havana at ~26.5 ft. Director Jim Lamer and ecologists Jason DeBoer and Levi Solomon talked with reporter Matt Sheehan from WMBD out of Peoria, Illinois, about some of the […]