Jim Lamer, Ph.D

 

Director, Illinois River Biological Station

Illinois Natural History Survey

704 N Schrader Ave.

Havana, IL  62644

 

E-mail: lamer@illinois.edu

Tel: 309-543-6000

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Education

 

Doctor of Philosophy in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences (2015)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

Masters of Science in Biology (2006)

 

Western Illinois University

 

Bachelor of Science in Zoology (2001)

Western Illinois University

 

Research Statement

 

My research interests lie within a freshwater ecology framework.  Although fisheries is a major component of my research, I am interested in all biotic and abiotic interactions in aquatic systems, especially pertaining to large river ecology.  I have a background in population and hybrid genetic methods and combine those tools with more traditional fisheries and ecological techniques to answer questions pertaining to invasive species management, feeding ecology of fishes, fish movement, and life history dynamics of fishes.  Basic and applied techniques to understand and mitigate the effects of Asian carp in the Mississippi River Basin have been of particular interest (i.e., piscivory by native fishes, hybrid marker development and testing, age and growth of young of year and adult fishes, advanced GPS telemetry, contracted harvest, acoustic telemetry, reproductive ecology).

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