The Illinois Natural History Survey is seeking a Quantitative Ecologist to explore and quantitatively assess existing fish length and age data to evaluate various approaches to fish stock assessment and identify/pursue data gaps to characterize reach-specific population demographics of recreational and commercially important sport fishes in Illinois and Mississippi rivers and evaluate current sampling strategies for riverine sportfish.

Duties & Responsibilities Include:

  • Assimilate and explore fish length and age data from various published and agency sources, identify data needs, and develop solutions to fill data gaps.
  • Compare underutilized length-based estimators to age-based methods to determine species/conditions in which each of these are appropr

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