Award Recipients and Reports

2022

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

View “Summer 2022 Assessment of Benthic Macroinvertebrate and Fish Communities in Jordan Creek (Vermilion County, Illinois)“.

2020

Sabine Miller developed and implemented a protocol to assess habitat characteristics, macroinvertebrates, and fish populations in Jordan Creek, based on 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.

View “Fish Community and Habitat Assessment of Jordan Creek“.

2015-2019

No Award Distributed

2014

Josh Sherwood* – Benthic Habitat Mapping of the Vermilion River System (Wabash River Drainage).

2011-2013

No Award Distributed

2010

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

Steven Zelski – Environmental sampling of aquatic fungi in Jordan Creek.

2009

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

2008

Yong Cao – “The changes of stream fish-community uniqueness over the past century in Champaign County and the long-term trend in Jordan Creek.”

Eden Effert – “The influence of riparian forest on community structure and stream metabolism in an agricultural watershed.”

2007

Mark Carter –  “Effects of turbidity and cover on prey selection of smallmouth bass.”

2006

Matt Diana – “Morphological differences between bluegill populations in lotic and lentic systems.”

Maminirina Randrianandrasana – “Feeding habits in larval stages of Isoperla nana(Walsh) (Insecta: Plecoptera: Perlodidae) in Jordan Creek (Vermilion County, Illinois).”

Sandra Yi – “Parasite-host interactions between aquatic mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) and mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in urban and rural freshwater habitats.”

2005

Ann Readel –  “Effect of habitat degradation on the health and conservation of painted turtles (Chrysemys picta) and slider turtles (Trachemys scripta).”

2004

Hope Dodd – “Evaluation of Newbury weirs (rock riffles) for improving habitat quality and biotic diversity in Illinois streams.”

2003

Ben Batten – “Recovery of a Midwest Stream Following an Ammonia Spill.”

Jeremy Tiemann –  “Diel and longitudinal differences in habitat use by Noturusspecies.”