Ed Rutherford

Current Research Projects:
(See also All Research Projects for Rutherford)

• Forecasting Spatial Distributions of Salmonines in Lake Michigan
• Influence of Physical Processes on Fish Recruitment Variability in the Great Lakes
• Spatial Structure and Biophysical Coupling in Pelagic Food Webs–connecting the Nearshore Shunt and Offshore Desert with the Laser Plankton Survey System (LPSS)
• Development of A GIS for Integrated Ecosystem Assessments of Great Lakes Aquatic Resources
• Modeling Impacts of Climate Change and Land Use on Habitat Suitability for Fishes in the Muskegon River Tributary to Lake Michigan
• Reproductive and Recruitment Success of Walleye in the Muskegon River
• Interactive Effects of Hypoxia and Mercury Contamination in Great Lakes Fish
• Food Web Response to Invasive Species and Hypoxia in Lake Erie, Saginaw Bay Lake Huron, and Southeast Lake Michigan
• Implications of Cercopagis and Bythotrephes to Alewife Recruitment and Stability of the Lake Michigan Pelagic Food Web
• Lake Circulation Studies and the Great Lakes Coastal Forecast System (GLCFS)

Recent GLERL Publications:
(See also All GLERL Publications for Rutherford, Pre-GLERL Publications)

• Dufour, E., T.O. HÖÖK, W.P. Patterson, and E.S. RUTHERFORD. High resolution isotope analysis of young alewife Alosa pseudoharengus otoliths: assessment of temporal resolution and reconstruction of habitat occupancy and thermal history. Journal of Fish Biology 73:2434-2451 (2008). http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2008/20080049.pdf
• Jonas, J., R.M. Claramunt, and E.S. RUTHERFORD. Salmonine reproduction and recruitment. In The State of Lake Michigan in 2005. D.F. Clapp and W. Horns (Eds.). Great Lakes Fishery Commission Special Publication 08-02. Great Lakes Fishery Commission, Ann Arbor, MI, pp. 65-70 (2008). http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2008/20080067.pdf
• RUTHERFORD, E.S. Lake Michigan's tributary and nearshore fish habitats. In The State of Lake Michigan in 2005. D.F. Clapp and W. Horns (Eds.). Great Lakes Fishery Commission Special Publication 08-02. Great Lakes Fishery Commission, Ann Arbor, MI, 7-17 (2008). http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2008/20080068.pdf

Recent Presentations:
* denotes speaker

• *Breck, J., C.A. Joseph, E.S. RUTHERFORD, and K. Newman. Development of a GIS-based decision support tool for evaluating Great Lakes lakebed alterations. Seminar at NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor, MI, September 17, 2009 (2009).
• *Breck, J., C.P. Simon, E.S. RUTHERFORD, B. Low, P.J. Lamberson, and D.R. Swank. When to Mature? Age at maturity in Steelhead? 139th Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society, Nashville, TN, August 30 - September 3, 2009 (2009).
• *Geddes, C.A., M. Kimura Edgar, E.S. RUTHERFORD, and K. Newman. Development of a GIS-based decision support tool for evaluating Great Lakes lakebed alterations. Annual Meeting of the Michigan Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, Dundee, MI, March 18, 2009 (2009).
• *KRUEGER, D.M., E.S. RUTHERFORD, and D.M. MASON. Feeding behavior of walleye and brown trout and its influence on chinook salmon recruitment in a Lake Michigan tributary. 139th Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society, Nashville, TN, August 30 - September 3, 2009 (2009).
• *KRUEGER, D.M., E.S. RUTHERFORD, and D.M. MASON. Feeding behavior of walleye and brown trout and its influence on wild Chinook in the Muskegon River, Muskegon, MI. Annual Meeting of the Michigan Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, Dundee, MI, March 18, 2009 (2009).
• *KRUEGER, D.M., E.S. RUTHERFORD, M.J. Wiley, C. Riseng, and D.M. MASON. Using fisheries management activities to forecast species interactions and chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) recruitment in a large Lake Michigan tributary. 52nd Annual Conference of the International Association for Great Lakes Research, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, May 18-22, 2009 (2009).
• *Madenjian, C.P., E.S. RUTHERFORD, B. Sederberg, and M. Blouin. Poor quality of spawning habitat: a serious impediment to cisco rehabilitation in the Great Lakes? Annual Meeting of the Michigan Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, Dundee, MI, March 18, 2009 (2009).
• *Madenjian, C.P., E.S. RUTHERFORD, B. Sederberg, and M. Blouin. Poor quality of spawning habitat: a serious impediment to cisco rehabilitation in the Great Lakes? Annual Meeting of the Lake Michigan Technical Committee, July, 2009 (2009).
• RUTHERFORD, E.S. Marine and Coastal Systems: Resources, Impacts and Conservation. Lecture to undergraduate course on environmental studies at Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI, March 17, 2009 (2009).
• RUTHERFORD, E.S., S. Alderstein-Gonzalez, and L.N. Ivan. Modeling impacts of invasive species on the Saginaw Bay, Lake Huron food web. 139th Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society, Nashville, TN, August 30 - September 3, 2009 (2009).
• *RUTHERFORD, E.S., J.A. Tyler, M.J. Wiley, C. Riseng, L.N. Ivan, S.T. Cheng, B. Pijanowski, and D. Hyndman. Modeling Land Use Change and Climate Change Impacts on Fish Habitat Suitability in the Muskegon River. 52nd Annual Conference of the International Association for Great Lakes Research, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, May 18-22, 2009 (2009).
• *Stanfield, L., F. Cowie, J. Stewart, J. McKenna, C. Joseph, E.S. RUTHERFORD, and H. Hall. Challenges and opportunities of riverine information management systems within Canada and across borders. 139th Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society, Nashville, TN, August 30 - September 3, 2009 (2009).
• *Tyler, J.A., E.S. RUTHERFORD, M.J. Wiley, C. Riseng, B. Pijanowski, and D. Hyndman. Effects of urban development in the Muskegon River watershed on steelhead growth, survival and potential recruitment: results of a multi-modeling approach. 52nd Annual Conference of the International Association for Great Lakes Research, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, May 18-22, 2009 (2009).
• *Wiley, M.J., E.S. RUTHERFORD, B. Pijanowski, A. Kendall, C. Riseng, S.T. Cheng, P. Steen, D. Hyndman, P. Richards, J.A. Tyler, M. Carlson, R.J. Stevenson, P. Seelbach, and J. Koches. A Multi-Modeling Approach to Evaluating Impacts of Climate Change on River Ecosystems. 52nd Annual Conference of the International Association for Great Lakes Research, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, May 18-22, 2009 (2009).
• *LANSING, M.B., and E. RUTHERFORD*. NOAA in the Great Lakes, the Great Lakes salmon and trout fishery. Michigan Sports Fishing Association, Oakland County Sportsman Club, Clarkston, MI, October 15, 2008 (2008).
• RUTHERFORD, E.S. A look back, and forward: a review of research opportunities with Michigan DNR and NOAA GLERL. Presentation to Michigan DNR research scientists, Ralph A. McMullen Conference Center, Roscommon, Michigan, October 10, 2008 (2008).
• RUTHERFORD, E.S. The Great Lakes Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research. Webinar Presentation to Consortium of Universities for Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Ann Arbor, MI, November 7, 2008 (2008).
• *RUTHERFORD, E.S., and C.P. Madenjian. Lake trout refuges: a tool for Ecosystem based management of Great Lakes fisheries? Lecture to distributed graduate seminar on the role of marine protected areas in ecosystem based management, University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment, Ann Arbor, MI, October 6 2008 (2008).
• *HOOK, T.O., D. BELETSKY, E. RUTHERFORD, D.M. MASON, and D.J. SCHWAB. A linked hydrodynamic and individual-based model to similate alewife recruitment in Lake Michigan. 51st Annual Conference of the International Association for Great Lakes Research, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, May 19-23, 2008 (2008).