Dr. Steven R. Chipps

Assistant Leader - Fisheries

South Dakota Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit

U. S. Geological Survey - Biological Resources Division

South Dakota State University

Brookings, SD   57007-1696
Adjunct Assistant Professor

South Dakota State University

Brookings, SD   57007-1696
Voice: (605) 688-6121/Fax: (605) 688-4515
                                     email: steven.chipps@sdstate.edu
 

Dr. Chipps is an Associate Professor and Assistant Unit Leader-Fisheries in the South Dakota Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit. He teaches graduate-level courses in Aquatic Trophic Ecology (WL 717) and Ecology of Aquatic Invertebrates (WL 718). Dr. Chipps advises and mentors graduate students. His primary areas of expertise include bioenergetics modeling, limnology, aquatic invertebrates, and fish ecology. 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

    Research in my lab is directed toward identifying and measuring food web interactions in lakes, reservoirs, and wetlands. My graduate students and I are particularly interested in how food web structure effects factors such as energy flow, nutrient recycling, phytoplankton biomass, and aquatic macrophytes in lentic ecosystems. Other areas of research focus on bioenergetics modeling, development, and application of wetland biomonitoring criteria, limnology of Black Hills reservoirs, and effects of winterkill on nutrient recycling in natural, glacial lakes.