John Chick, Ph.D.
Great Rivers Field Station Director
Tel: (618)
466-9688
E-mail:
chick@inhs.uiuc.edu
Dr.
Chick is Director of the Great Rivers Field Station for the
Illinois Natural History Survey and an Adjunct Professor at University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He possesses a doctorate degree in
Ecology from the University of Georgia and a master’s degree in
Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences from the University of Florida.
Dr. Chick’s main research activities focus on:
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the ecology of large rivers, particularly the
Mississippi and Illinois rivers;
population dynamics and community level interactions of freshwater
fishes
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early life history
stages of fishes
-
general aquatic
ecology
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questions related
to how spatial variability in aquatic ecosystems affects population,
community and ecosystem dynamics
