Copi® chili dogs with tricolor tomatoes, onions, and tortilla strip toppings and seasoned fries

Copi® smash barbecue cheeseburger with mayo, pickles, barbecue sauce, and American cheese toppings and season fries

Copi® loaded nachos with Copi® crumbles and sour cream, cheese, onions, peppers, tomatoes, cilantro, and pico salsa toppings

Chicago Chef Maurice Jackson brought his sophisticated culinary take on Copi® fair food to Conservation World during the 2025 Illinois State Fair, and we are loving it!

Fairgoers can look for Chef Maurice’s Copi® Stand in Conservation World behind the butterfly house.

Well done!

Please help share! We have an opening for a fundraising coordinator available! illinois-river-bio-station.inhs.illinois.edu/about/careers/

Please reach out with any questions - lots of flexibility!

Please help share! Please send any questions my way. We're starting to new fundraising campaigns and are in need of a coordinator to raise funds to help support and protect our monitoring and research programs and a new research and education facility.

AFS Introduced and Invasive Species Section invites abstract submissions for our symposium for #AFS2025. Students can also submit for our travel award. @amfisheriessoc.bsky.social @scifendler.bsky.social @mullyfish.bsky.social

Postdoc Employee – Quantitative ecology – ESPM: Organisms & The Environment University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

Looking for a quantitative ecology #postdoc? Check out this opening on time-series modeling of estuarine food webs - based in my group @natureatcal.bsky.social, in collaboration w/ State agency scientists. Apply ASAP - review of applications starts Apr 4. More info: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04818

Water quality sampling from an airboat on a frozen backwater lake of the Illinois River

Water quality sampling from an airboat on a frozen backwater lake of the Illinois River

Water quality sampling from an airboat on a frozen backwater lake of the Illinois River

Water quality sampling from an airboat on a frozen backwater lake of the Illinois River

This week began our 2-week winter #waterquality monitoring season. We're thankful for our partners at the Chautauqua National Wildlife Refuge and use of their airboat while ours is in the shop. Ice thickness on Tuesday was still around 8 inches in most places, though quickly thawing. #UMRR

J Lamer presents "Exploring tools to evaluate invasive carp management success across different density gradients and river systems."

K Vinavich (graduate student) presents "Invasive Carp Growth Chronologies: Management Tool to Help Evaluate Harvest Success?"

M Spear presents "Evaluating Invasive Carp Management on the Illinois Waterway through Adaptive 'Multi-Agency Monitoring"

This past week 2 staff & 1 grad student presented at the annual #MidwestFW in St. Louis as part of a symposium titled "Sharing Knowledge Across Sub-basins: Invasive Carp in the Missouri River Basin and Beyond."

Work on our aquatic macroinvertebrate project was highlighted in last summer’s edition of “Our Mississippi”! Check it out, and follow the link below for more highlights of work being done on the Upper Mississippi River! #UMRR

www.mvd.usace.army.mil/Portals/52/o...

Fish telemetry folks: Anyone have any HR2 Innovasea receivers sitting on a shelf that we could borrow for a few months for a pond study? Ideally, we could use 8, but can get by with less.
Thanks!

Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservatikn is seeking applicants for fisheries technician in our paddlefish and native nongame program. Go to https://www.wildlifedepartment.com/about/careers/open-positions

Hey, #TeamFish- we’re seeking applications for a technician in our #paddlefish and #native #nongame program. Please share and repost! Thanks
www.wildlifedepartment.com/about/career...

Please add me, thanks! We work with several freshwater species otoliths - age, biochronology, microchemistry.

If you like fishes, cutting edge riverine research & smiling techs showing off their cool catches in the field, make sure to follow the Illinois River Biological Station. IRBS is 1 of 7 field stations at INHS. It is located on the Illinois River in Havana, IL
& has a rich history in stream ecology.

Hello! Part of INHS @prairieresearch.bsky.social, the Illinois River Biological Station, our mission is to advance scientific understanding, conservation, and sustainable management of our large river ecosystems through cutting-edge research, partnerships, and public education. Check us out!

Be sure to follow the Prairie Research Institute (PRI): @prairieresearch.bsky.social. The Illinois Natural History Survey is part of PRI, and for the past 22+ years, I've been honored to be part of this great organization & continue the legacy of being a leader in conservation of aquatic resources.