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Professional Service
Trent Sutton is a member of the following professional organizations:
- American Fisheries Society
- Education Section
- Early Life History Section
- Fisheries Management Section
- Western Division
- Alaska Chapter
- Education Section
- American Institute of Fishery Research Biologists
- American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
- 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 has also served or currently 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 of Lake Whitefish, 49th International Association of Great Lakes Research, 2006.
- Participant, Pallid Sturgeon Scope-of-Work Meeting, 2008.
- Co-organizer and leader with Gordon Kruse, Two-day workshop on developing a fisheries research plan for Alaska, 2009.
- Co-Editor with Travis Brenden and Michael Jones, Special Issue on lake whitefish biology and management in the Laurentian Great Lakes in the Journal of Great Lakes Research, 2009.
- Co-Chair, Symposium on Whitefish Life History and Management, Annual Meeting of the Alaska Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, 2009.
- Vice-President (2009-2010) and President-Elect (2010-present) for the Alaska Chapter of the American Fisheries Society.
At the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), Trent has served on ten (10) division committees, three (3) committees in the School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, and three (3) committees at the University level.
Since 2003, he has chaired the graduate committees for 13 master’s degree students and four (4) doctoral students at Purdue University and UAF Currently, Trent is serving as the advisor for 10 master’s and two (2) doctoral graduate students at these two institutions.
Trent is also currently serving on the graduate committees for four (4) master’s degree students in the School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences.
