My main research activities focus on the ecology of large rivers, particularly the Mississippi and Illinois rivers. I am also interested in population dynamics and community level interactions of freshwater fishes, early life history stages of fishes, and general aquatic ecology. I am especially interested in questions related to how spatial variability in aquatic ecosystems affects population and community level processes.

Illinois Experts Profile

Best Presentation - Illinois Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, 2014

Volunteer Service Award, Lieutenant Governor, State of Illinois – for service to the River Coordinating Councils of Illinois, Science Advisory Committee, 2013

Best Presentation - Illinois Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, 2007

Certificate of Appreciation - Mississippi River Research Consortium – for service as president, 2007

Cooperative Conservation Award, U.S. Department of the Interior – for service to the Long Term Resource Monitoring Program, 2007

Outstanding New Employee - Illinois Natural History Survey, 2002

Adjunct Professor, Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana

Adjunct Professor, Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana

External Affiliations

Gibson-Reinemer, D.K., R.E. Sparks, J.J. Parker, A.F. Casper, J.A. DeBoer, M.W. Fritts, M.A. McClelland, and J.H. Chick. 2017. Ecological recovery of a large river following the Clean Water Act. BioScience 67:957-970. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/bix110

Gibson-Reinemer, D.K., R.M. Pendleton, L.E. Solomon, J.H. Chick, and A.F. Casper. 2017. Hydrology controls recruitment of invasive bigheaded carp on the Illinois River, USA. PeerJ 5:e3641; DOI 10.7717/peerj.3641. (Citations = 1)

Gibson-Reinemer, D.K., A.F. Casper, T.D. VanMiddlesworth, M.Y. VanMiddlesworth, and J.H. Chick. 2017. Widespread and enduring demographic collapse of invasive common carp (Cyprinus carpio) in the Upper Mississippi River System. Biological Invasions 19:1905-1916. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-017-1405-5 (Citations = 2)

Colaninno, C.E., J.H. Chick, T.J. Martin, A.M. Painter, K.B. Brown, C.T. Dopson, A.O. Enzerink, S.R. Goesmann, T. Higgins, N.Q. Knutzen, E.N. Laute, P.M. Long, P.L. Ottenfeld, A.T. Uehling, and L.C. Ward. 2017. An Interdisciplinary Human-Environmental Examination of Effects Consistent with the Anthropocene in the Lower Illinois River Valley. Midcontinential Journal of Archaeology 42:266-290. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01461109.2017.1375067

Thomas, S.M., Chick, J.H., and S.J. Czesny. 2017. Underestimation of microzooplankton is a macro problem: one size fits all zooplankton sampling needs alterations. Journal of Great Lakes Research 43:91-101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2016.11.002 (Citations = 1)

Gibson-Reinemer, D.K., Ickes, B.S., and J.H. Chick. 2017. Development and assessment of a new method for combining catch per unit effort data from different fish sampling gears: multi-gear mean standardization (MGMS). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 74:8-14. (https://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2016-0003)

Solomon, L.E., Pendleton, R.M., Chick, J.H. and A.F. Casper. 2016. Long-term changes in fish community structure in relation to the establishment of Asian carp in a large floodplain river. Biological Invasions 18:2883–2895. (doi:10.1007/s10530-016-1180-8). (Citations = 12)

Culver, E. F., and J. H. Chick. 2015. Shocking Results: Assessing the Injury Rates of Fishes from Pulsed-DC Electrofishing. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 35:1055-1063. 

Chick, J.H., Soeken-Gittinger, L.A., Ratcliff, E.N., Gittinger, E.J., Lubinski, B.L. and R. Maher. 2013. A Decade of Monitoring on Pool 26 of the Upper Mississippi River: Water Quality and Fish Data with Cross Component Analyses. Bulletin of the Illinois Natural History Survey 39:323-420.

Contents:

Chick, J.H. Prologue: A Decade of Monitoring. Bulletin of the Illinois Natural History Survey 39:323.

Soeken-Gittinger, L.A. and J.H. Chick. Chapter 1: Setting the Stage - The Environmental Setting and Water Quality Trends of Pool 26.  Bulletin of the Illinois Natural History Survey 39:324-350.

Ratcliff, E.N., Lubinski, B.J., Gittinger, E.J. and J.H. Chick.  Chapter 2: Population Trends for Selected Fishes in Pool 26 of the Upper Mississippi River. Bulletin of the Illinois Natural History Survey 39:351-369.

Gittinger, E.J., Maher, R., Ratcliff, E.N. and J.H. Chick.  Chapter 3: Exploring fishery independent (LTRMP) data as a tool to evaluate the commercial fishery in Pool 26 of the Mississippi River.  Bulletin of the Illinois Natural History Survey 39:370-386.

Chick, J.H., Soeken-Gittinger, L.A., Ratcliff, E.N., Gittinger, E.J. and B.J. Lubinski.  Chapter 4: Evaluating relationships between environmental factors and the fish community in Pool 26 of the Mississippi River. Bulletin of the Illinois Natural History Survey 39:387-401.

Chick, J.H. Epilogue: Is Long-Term-Ecological Monitoring Possible? Bulletin of the Illinois Natural History Survey 39:403.

Senior Management Team

PhD, Ecology, University of Georgia, 1997
MS, Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, University of Florida, 1992
BS, Wildlife and Fisheries Biology, University of Massachusetts, 1988