Trent Sutton is a member of the following professional organizations:

American Fisheries Society           Education Section           Early Life History Section           Fisheries Management Section           North-Central Division           Indiana Chapter           Michigan Chapter

American Institute of Fishery Research Biologists

American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists

Indiana Academy of Science

International Association of Great Lakes Research

North American Native Fishes Association

Sigma Xi, National Honorary for Scientists

World Sturgeon Conservation Society

          In addition to these memberships, Trent also serves in a number of other professional capacities at the local, state, and national levels.
          Examples are as follows:

Member, Michigan Department of Natural Resources Sea Lamprey Control Funding Task Force, 1996-1998.

Member, St. Marys River Fisheries Task Group, Great Lakes Fishery Commission, 1998- 2001.

Associate Editor, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 1999 – 2005.

Adjunct Research Scientist, Lake Superior State University Aquatic Research Laboratory, 2001 - 2003

North-Central Division Representative to the Education Section, American Fisheries Society, 2001 - 2004.

Member, Indiana Department of Natural Resources Technical Advisory Committee, 2002 - present.

Technical session facilitator and reporter, Great Lakes Lake Sturgeon Coordination Meeting, 2002.

President of the Indiana Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, 2004 - 2005.

Participant in the Aquatic Nuisance Species Management Plan Task Force sponsored by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources and D. J. Case and Associates, 2003.

Member of the Great Lakes Fishery Commission Lake Michigan Lake Sturgeon Task Group, 2003 - present.

Selected for inclusion in the AcademicKeys Who’s Who in Agriculture Higher Education, 2003.

Board of Directors of the Aquatic Research Center of the Indiana Biological Survey, 2004 - 2006.

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, South Dakota State University, 2004 - present.

Co-Chair, Symposium on Species-Environment Interactions in Agricultural Landscapes: Measuring and Modeling Multi-Scale Processes, 65th Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, 2004.

Co-Editor with Al Zale and Donna Parrish of the third edition of Fisheries Techniques, 2004 - present.

Co-Chair, Symposium on Impacts of a Changing Environment on Lake Whitefish, 49th International Association of Great Lakes Research, 2006

At Purdue University, Trent has served on eleven (11) departmental committees, two (2) committees in the College of Agriculture, and three (3) committees at the University level.  In addition, he has chaired the graduate committees for eight (8) master’s degree students and four (4) doctoral students.  Trent also has served on the graduate committees for one (1) master’s degree student and three (3) doctoral students in the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, as well as one master’s degree student each at South Dakota State University (Brookings, South Dakota) and the University of Waterloo (Waterloo, Ontario)