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Sara M. Creque
  Email: screque@illinois.edu
  Title: Aquatic Ecologist

Mailing address:
Lake Michigan Biological Station
400 17th St.
   
  Phone: 847-872-8677              Fax: 847-872-8679

Research
Habitat and aquatic communities along the Illinois shoreline.
Diet overlap of native and non-native fishes.
Growth and survival of nearshore fishes in the Illinois waters of Lake Michigan.
Evaluation of an artificial reef in southwestern Lake Michigan.


Selected
publications
Creque, S.M. and S.J. Czesny. In press. Diet overlap of non-native alewife with native yellow perch and spottail shiner in nearshore waters of southwestern Lake Michigan, 2000-2007. Ecology of Freshwater Fish. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0633.2011.00538.x

Creque, S.M., K.M. Stainbrook, D.C. Glover, S.J. Czesny and J.M. Dettmers. 2010. Mapping bottom
substrate in Illinois waters of Lake Michigan: linking substrate to biology. Journal of Great Lakes Research 36:780-789.

Sparks, R. E., T.L. Barkley, S.M. Creque, J.M. Dettmers and K.M. Stainbrook. 2011. Evaluation of a fish
dispersal barrier in the Chicago Sanitary and Shipping Canal. In Proceedings of “Invasive Asian carps in North America: a forum on their biology and management”. Ed. D. C. Chapman and M. Hoff. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, MD.

Creque, S.M., M.J. Raffenberg, W.A. Brofka, J.M. Dettmers. 2006. If you build it, will they come? Fish and Angler Use at a Freshwater Artificial reef. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 26:702-713.

Creque, S.M., E.R. Rutherford, and T.G. Zorn. 2005. Use of GIS-derived Landscape-scale habitat features to explain spatial patterns of fish density in Michigan Rivers. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 24:1411-1425.

Professional
society
involvement
and activities

American Fisheries Society (National, Illinois Chapter, Education and Equal Opportunities Sections)

Education MS, Resource Ecology & Management, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2002

BS, Water Resources & Environmental Biology, Heidelberg University, Tiffin, OH, 1999





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