Dr. Edward Rutherford
Associate Research Scientist
Current Students
Masters:
Hideaki Sano: Factors influencing spatial distributions and relative
abundances of chinook salmon in Lake Michigan
Hui-Yu Wang: Spatial analysis of movement, life history and habitat quality of walleye (Stizostedion vitreum) in Lake Erie
Solomon David: Factors influencing Fish Community Dynamics in the lower
Muskegon River, MI.
Daniel Wyns: To be decided
Katherine Marko: Carbon and Nitrogen Stable Isotope Analysis of Food Pathways for Walleye In the Muskegon River Watershed
Ph.D:
David Swank: Life History Variation of Steelhead in the Great Lakes
Tomas Hook: Habitat mediated recruitment dynamics of alewife in Lake Michigan
Larissa Sano: Risk Analysis of the environmental release of a biocide: case study of ballast water treatment using glutaraldehyde
Darryl Hondorp: Mechanisms of Depth Segregation in the Great Lakes Sculpin Cottus cognatus and Myoxycephalus thompsoni
Lori Ivan: Nutrient Cycling by Fishes In a Great Lakes Watershed
Former Students and Thesis Titles
Aaron Woldt: Production of juvenile steelhead in two northern Lake Michigan tributaries
Brian Brenton: Simulating the effects of invasive ruffe (Gymnocephalus cernuus) on native yellow perch (Perca flavecsens) and walleye (Stizostedion vitreum) population dynamics in Great Lakes waters
Neal Godby: Growth, diet, and prey availability of juvenile steelhead in the Muskegon River and Bigelow Creek, Michigan
Brad Horne: Simulating effects of hydrodam alteration on thermal regime and wild steelhead recruitment in the Manistee River, Michigan
Sara Creque: Using landscape-scale habitat models to predict potential abundance of potamodromous fishes above dams on Great Lakes tributaries