Principal Investigator • Tracey Sutton, Ph.D. • tsutton@hboi.edu RESEARCH INTERESTS Fish ecology (with emphasis on trophic ecology), taxonomy, systematics and zoogeography; pelagic ecosystem structure; fish/zooplankton interactions; zooplankton ecology; small-scale zooplankton community structural dynamics; in situ biological sampling instrumentation; marine technology, with emphasis on optical sensors and data acquisition systems. EDUCATION • Postdoctoral Scholar | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | 2001-03 • Ph.D. Biological Oceanography | University of South Florida | 2001 • M.S. Biological Oceanography | University of South Florida | 1994 • B.S. Zoology | 1988 | University of South Florida PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE • Principal Investigator - Department Director, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution; 2003-present • Affiliate Assistant Professor, Florida Atlantic University; 2003-present • Co-Principal Investigator: MAR-ECO (www.mar-eco.no) Pelagic Nekton components: PN1, Community structure (http://www.mar-eco.no/sci/documents/PN1.pdf); and PN2, Trophic ecology (http://www.mar-eco.no/sci/documents/PN2.pdf) MAR-ECO, a Census of Marine Life field project, is an international exploratory study of the animals inhabiting the northern mid-Atlantic. Scientists from 16 nations around the northern Atlantic Ocean are participating in research of the waters around the mid-Atlantic Ridge from Iceland to the Azores. • Research Scientist: Developed a program to analyze the dietary habits of several commercially important inshore fishes as a function of habitat, development, and temporal variation (funded by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection), 1992-1993 • Research Scientist: Collected and analyzed bimonthly zooplankton samples from the Little Manatee River to describe the community structure, distribution, and seasonal abundance of zooplankton in an estuarine watershed (funded by Southwest Florida Water Management District), 1991. OTHER RESEARCH EXPERIENCE • Research cruises: 56 (24 as Chief Scientist) entailing: midwater trawling; benthic trawling; in situ submersible observation; plankton sampling and sampler design (High Resolution Sampler - HRS I & II); participant and shift leader on 2004 RV G.O. Sars Mid-Atlantic Ridge Expedition. • 2003 Session Chair "Biology of the Deep Gulf of Mexico" - 10th Deep-Sea Biology Symposium, OIMB • 2001-03 Postdoctoral Scholar - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution • Consultant for Discovery Channel/BBC Natural History Unit Gulf of Mexico filming for Blue Planet: The Deep • Program Leader: High Resolution Sampler development (funded by Office of Naval Research); 1994-2001 • Provided zooplankton component for 3 Gulf of Mexico modelling efforts (HyCODE: Florida; ECOHAB: Florida; and ECOPATH: West Florida shelf); 1999-2001 • Project Manager: Iron/Phosphorus Nutrient Enrichment Experiment, Gulf of Mexico; 1997,1998 SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Sutton, T.T. (in press) Trophic ecology of the deep-sea fish Malacosteus niger (Pisces: Stomiidae): an enigmatic feeding ecology to facilitate a unique visual system? Deep-Sea Research. Lester, K.M., C. Heil, M. B. Neely, D. Spence, S. Murasko, S. Milroy, T. Hopkins, T. Sutton, S. Burghart, R. Bohrer, A. Remsen, G. Vargo, and J. Walsh (in review) Zooplankton and Karenia brevis in the Gulf of Mexico. Continental Shelf Research. Donnelly, J., J.J. Torres, T.T. Sutton, and C. Simoniello (2004) Fishes of the eastern Ross Sea, Antarctica. Polar Biology 27: 637-650. Sutton, T.T. and K. E. Hartel (2004) A new species of Eustomias (Teleostei: Stomiidae) from the Western North Atlantic, with a review of the subgenus Neostomias. Copeia 2004(1): 116-121. Walsh, J.J., R.H. Weisberg, D.A. Dieterle, R. He, B.P. Darrow, J.K. Jolliff, K.M. Lester, G.A. Vargo, G.J. Kirkpatrick, K.A. Fanning, T.T. Sutton, A.E. Jochens, D.C. Biggs, B. Nababan, C. Hu, and F.E. Muller-Karger (2003) The phytoplankton response to intrusions of slope water on the West Florida shelf: models and observations. Journal of Geophysical Research 108(C6): 3190, doi: 10.1029/2002JC001406. Wienerroither, R.M., F. Uiblein, F. Bordes, T. Moreno, J.G. Nielsen, T.T. Sutton and M. Youngbluth (2003) Diversity, population ecology and biogeography of Myctophidae. Organisms, Diversity and Evolution 3(4): 308. McEachran, J.D. and T.T. Sutton. (2002) Chiasmodontidae. Swallowers. In: K.E. Carpenter (ed.), The living marine resources of the Western Central Atlantic. Volume 2: Bony fishes part 2 (Opisthognathidae to Molidae), sea turtles and marine mammals. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Special Publication No. 5. Rome, FAO. pp. 1742-1743. Sutton, T.T. (2003) Stomiiformes: dragonfishes and relatives. In: (D. Thoney and P. Loiselle, eds, Vol. 4. Fishes I) Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia. Gale, New York. pp. 421-430. Samson, S, T.L. Hopkins, A. Remsen, L.C. Langebrake, T.T. Sutton, and J. Patten (2001) A System for High-Resolution Zooplankton Imaging. IEEE J. of Oceanic Engineering, 26: 671-676. Sutton, T.T. and S.E. Burghart (2001) Zooplankton. In: (S. Mackinson, T.A. Okey and B. Mahmoudi, eds) A preliminary model of the west Florida shelf food web for use in ecosystem-based fisheries management and research. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Florida Marine Research Institute, St. Petersburg, FL. Sutton, T.T., T.L. Hopkins, A. Remsen, and S. Burghart (2001) Multisensor sampling of pelagic ecosystem variables in a coastal environment to estimate grazing impact. Continental Shelf Research 21: 69-87. Bordes, F., F. Uiblein, R. Castillo, A. Barrera, J.J. Castro, J. Coca, J. Gomez, K. Hansen, V. Hernandez, N. Merrett, M. Miya, T. Moreno, F. Perez, A. Ramos, T.T. Sutton, and M. Yamaguchi (1999). Epi- and mesopelagic fishes, acoustic data, and SST images collected off Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, and Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, during cruise "La Bocaina 04-97". Inf. Téc. ICCM, 5, 1-44. Hopkins, T.L. and T.T. Sutton (1998) Midwater fishes and shrimps as competitors in low latitude oligotrophic ecosystems. Marine Ecology - Progress Series 164: 37-45. Sutton, T.T. and T.L. Hopkins. (1998) Trophic diversity of a midwater fish community. In: Pelagic Biogeography ICoPB II. Proceedings of the second International Conference. Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Workshop Report No. 142: 353-357. Hopkins, T.L., T.T. Sutton and T. M. Lancraft. (1996) Trophic structure and predation impact of a low latitude midwater fish community. Progress in Oceanography 38: 205-239. Remsen, A., T.L. Hopkins, T.T. Sutton, T. Wilcox and L. LeBlanc. (1996) A high frequency chirp sonar to be mounted on the High Resolution Sampler (HRS II) and capable of sizing small zooplankton. Oceans 96 MTS/IEEE Conference Proceedings 3: 1480-1484. Sutton, T.T. and T.L. Hopkins (1996) The species composition, abundance and vertical distribution of the stomiid (Pisces: Stomiiformes) fish assemblage of the Gulf of Mexico. Bulletin of Marine Science 59(3): 530-542. Sutton, T.T. and T.L. Hopkins (1996) Trophic ecology of the stomiid (Pisces, Stomiidae) assemblage of the eastern Gulf of Mexico: strategies, selectivity and impact of a mesopelagic top predator group. Marine Biology 127: 179-192. Sutton, T.T., T.L. Hopkins, and L. C. Langebrake (1996) A high resolution marine particle analysis system. Oceans '96/IEEE Conference Proceedings 3: 1474-1479. WEB LINKS MAR-ECO: http://mareco.imr.no/index.html Census of Marine Life: www.coml.org Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: www.whoi.edu WHOI Ocean Life Institute: www.whoi.edu/institutes/oli/ Dr. Sutton's WHOI web page: www.whoi.edu/institutes/oli/research/education_sutton.htm College of Marine Science, University of South Florida: www.marine.usf.edu High Resolution Sampler web page: www.marine.usf.edu/sipper/hrs_platform.htm Center for Ocean Technology: www.cot.marine.usf.edu Office of Naval Research: www.onr.navy.mil Ichthyology Department, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard: www.mcz.harvard.edu/departments/fish/ Iceland Marine Research Institute: www.hafro.is/sjalf.e.html Norway Institute of Marine Research: www.imr.no ECOHAB: www.redtide.whoi.edu, www.cop.noaa.gov/Fact_Sheets/ECOHAB.html Northeast Fishery Science Center: www.nefsc.noaa.gov National Systematics Laboratory: www.nefsc.noaa.gov/nefsc.systematics/