Larimore Award Recipients and Reports

Moshe Piltz, 2022

Moshe Piltz was a junior majoring in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign while serving as an intern. He is now a benthic macroinvertebrate taxonomist with the Alabama Department of Environmental Management.

Piltz’s study was the Summer 2022 Assessment of Benthic Macroinvertebrate and Fish Communities in Jordan Creek (Vermilion County, Illinois).

Sabine Miller, 2020

Sabine Miller developed and implemented a protocol to assess habitat characteristics, macroinvertebrates, and fish populations in Jordan Creek using historical sampling data. She is now a first-year master’s student in the Natural Resources and Environmental Science degree program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Miller’s report is Fish Community and Habitat Assessment of Jordan Creek.

Josh Sherwood, 2014

Sherwood’s report is called Benthic Habitat Mapping of the Vermilion River System (Wabash River Drainage).

Claire Thomas, 2010

Thomas’ report is Scavenger or predator? Examining a potential predator–prey relationship between crayfish and benthic fish in stream food webs.

Steven Zelski, 2010

Zelski’s report is A monograph of the environmental freshwater ascomycete family Annulatascaceae: a morphological and molecular study.

Muchu Zhou, 2009

Zhou wrote Patterns of structural and carotenoid-based male color variation differ based on species, population, and body size in rainbow and orangethroat darters.

Yong Cao, 2008

Yong’s report is Effects of Sample Standardization on Mean Species Detectabilities and Estimates of Relative Differences in Species Richness among Assemblages.

Eden Effert, 2008

Effert’s report is The influence of riparian forest on community structure and stream metabolism in an agricultural watershed.

Mark Carter, 2007

Carter’s report is Effects of turbidity and cover on prey selection of smallmouth bass.

Matt Diana, 2006

Diana’s report is Morphological differences between bluegill populations in lotic and lentic systems.

Maminirina Randrianandrasana, 2006

Randrianandrasana’s report is Feeding habits in larval stages of Isoperla nana (Walsh) (Insecta: Plecoptera: Perlodidae) in Jordan Creek (Vermilion County, Illinois).

Sandra James-Yi, 2006

James-Yi’s report is Parasite-host interactions between aquatic mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) and mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in urban and rural freshwater habitats.

Ann Readel, 2005

Effect of habitat degradation on the health and conservation of painted turtles (Chrysemys picta) and slider turtles (Trachemys scripta)

Hope Dodd, 2004

Dodd’s report is Evaluation of Newbury weirs (rock riffles) for improving habitat quality and biotic diversity in Illinois streams.

Ben Batten, 2003

Batten’s report is Recovery of a Midwest Stream Following an Ammonia Spill.

Jeremy Tiemann, 2003

Diel and longitudinal differences in habitat use by Noturusspecies.