Sutton, Trent M.
Mailing Address:
Purdue University
Department of Forestry and Natural Resources
195 Marsteller Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907-1159
Office Phone:
(765) 496-6266
Office FAX:
(765) 496-2422
Office Location:
111 Forestry Building
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General Information:
Dr. Trent Sutton is an Associate Professor of Fisheries Biology at Purdue University, where he has been a faculty member since May 2001. In the five years prior to arriving at Purdue University, Trent served as Assistant Professor of Fisheries Biology in the Department of Biology and Director of Fisheries Research and Culture for the Aquatic Research Laboratory at Lake Superior State University. In these capacities, Trent taught 12 different undergraduate courses, mentored 39 undergraduate research projects on various aspects of fisheries ecology and management, and supervised research and culture operations on Atlantic salmon, coaster brook trout, Pacific salmonids, yellow perch, and lake sturgeon. His current research interests focus on the ecology and population dynamics of freshwater fishes, particularly those inhabiting the Laurentian Great Lakes (i.e., lake sturgeon, sea lamprey, lake herring, lake whitefish, brook trout), large rivers (i.e., flathead catfish, shovelnose sturgeon, blue sucker), and Indiana lakes and streams (i.e., western mosquitofish, killifishes, warmwater fishes). Through these research efforts, Trent has completed six (6) M.S. students, two (2) Ph.D. student, fourteen (14) undergraduate independent study projects, and four (4) high school independent study projects. Currently, he has three (3) M.S. and two (2) Ph.D. in his research group. In addition to teaching six (6) different undergraduate- and graduate-level courses at Purdue University, Trent has served as the academic advisor of the Purdue University student subunit of the American Fisheries Society. He is also very active in the American Fisheries Society, serving as the co-editor of the third edition of Fisheries Techniques and on numerous other committees for the society at the national, division, section, and state levels.
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