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President Nick Wahl
Nick came to SIUC in 2002 as an undergraduate in zoology. He spent the summers of 2004 and 2005 working as a fisheries technician for the US Forest Service on the Shawnee National Forest. During the school year, he worked in the Fisheries and Illinois Aquaculture Center. In the fall of 2005, he began an undergraduate research project looking at bluegill diets and fish age and growth in Campus Lake. After graduation in 2006, Nick continued work on Campus Lake with his thesis research looking at the effects of a partial planktivore (bluegill) removal in Campus Lake. wahly240@siu.edu
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Vice President Quinton Phelps
Quinton Phelps is the Vice president of the Southern Illinois University student subsection of the American Fisheries Society. Quinton is a Ph.D. student under Dr. Jim Garvey currently studying the ecology of sturgeons in the middle Mississippi River. Specifically, his study focuses on variation in growth and recruitment across latitudinal gradients and how these sturgeon populations respond to factors such as harvest. Quinton is also active in inland warmwater fisheries research. Quinton has been involved in fisheries since 1998-1999 when he began working with Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks. After completion of an Associates of Science at a small college in Kansas, he transferred to South Dakota State University to pursue both a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Wildlife and Fisheries Science. While at South Dakota, Quinton was involved with projects occurring with South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks and Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Upon completion of his Master’s degree Quinton moved to Southern Illinois University to obtain a Ph.D. and become more diversified in the fisheries field. Throughout Quinton’s fisheries career he has published multiple peer-reviewed journal articles and popular articles on a variety of fisheries related topics. qphelps@siu.edu
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Secretary / Treasurer John Zeigler
John is currently working on his MS degree under Dr. Gregory Whitledge. His research involves testing the utility of fish otolith microchemistry for determining the environmental history of fishes in the Middle Mississippi and Lower Illinois Rivers. This entails collecting fish and water samples from main-river, tributary, and floodplain lake sites. Fish otoliths and water samples are analyzed for a suite of elements and stable isotopes. His research will test whether water chemistry differs between sites, whether fish otolith chemistry reflects those differences in water chemistry, and if fish can be classified back to their site of origin through otolith chemistry.jzeigler@siu.edu
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