Center For Fisheries, Aquaculture, and Aquatic Sciences SIU-Carbondale

08/19/2025

CFAAS had an amazing time at the National AFS in San Antonio, TX! In addition to amazing presentations delivered by undergraduates, graduate students, and post docs, we also took the time to sightsee and eat some of the local food. Swipe to see what we got up to!

03/04/2025

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02/24/2025

SIU making an appearance at the Illinois AFS Conference! Our team did an amazing job at the poster talk and presentation! 😀

01/27/2025

View full job posting here:
https://jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id=103058

We are seeking full-time fisheries research technicians (4-5) to join us within the Center for Fisheries, Aquaculture, and Aquatic Sciences (CFAAS) at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois. The preferred start date is May 12th and will continue until August 15th with a possibility for extension until December 2025 or transition into the M.S. in the CFAAS program.

Responsibilities include:
Assist graduate students and researchers by performing fieldwork to complete fish population, water quality, and habitat assessments, including surveys, species identification, and data collection as well as assisting with project planning, support, and implementation. This may include boat electrofishing, setting gill nets, hydroacoustics, and telemetry.

Assist graduate students and researchers by compiling data and laboratory work, including assembling information from hardcopy and digital sources, performing data entry, preparing samples for stable isotope analysis, species dissection, and identification…

12/09/2024

This vibrant male orangespotted sunfish was caught in Buttonland Swamp. They are small but mighty sunfish that can be found in lakes and streams around Illinois!

11/19/2024

Kelli Hill, a graduate student under Dr. Garvey, is shown seining a pond with Silver Carp at Touch of Nature.

Those Silver Carp sure can jump high!

Photo Credit: Shane Kemp

10/28/2024

Silver Carp jumping on the Illinois River while Joe (associate scientist) and Katie (researcher) electrofish.

This research in Dr. Garvey's lab is to assess Silver Carp density in the Illinois River so commercial fishermen can better target Silver Carp.

07/11/2024

We are hiring!

If you like working with fish, have boating experience, are motivated, and are great working with others, this may be the job for you!

Dr. Garvey's lab is looking to hire 2 fisheries researchers to work on our hydroacoustic and telemetry surveys of bigheaded carp, and boat electrofishing surveys.

For more information and/or to apply go to https://www.schooljobs.com/careers/siu/jobs/4575728/researcher-i-stream-and-river-ecology-multiple-vacancies?keywords=researcher&pagetype=jobOpportunitiesJobs

03/25/2024

03/20/2024

Let's talk about by-catch!

These turtles (Musk Turtle and Common Snapping Turtle) were caught in fyke nets that were targeting the fish community in Buttonland Swamp.

*Do not pick up turtles if you are not trained; especially snapping turtles.
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03/01/2024

Lauren (CFAAS fisheries tech for Dr. Garvey) and Evelyn (Master's student for Dr. Kwasek) went to the Aquaculture America 2024 Conference in Texas.

Lauren presented her research on environmental plasticity of Zebrafish at the conference.

The last picture is of phytoplankton cultures at Friedrich Aquarium.