Research Photos

This gallery contains pictures and videos of Matt Futia's ongoing and prior research. Feel free to contact me at mfutia@uvm.edu if you'd like to learn more about anything you see!


Current research at UVM

Surgical transmitter implant
Lake strugeon collected for acoustic tracking
Sorting catch from a bottom trawl
Fiery sunrise over Lake Champlain
Lake trout with sea lamprey and fresh lamprey wound
Juvenile lake trout captured with bottom trawling
Adult lake trout captured by angling
Rolling off the back of the R/V Melosira for scuba surveys
Seeding fertilized lake trout eggs in egg bags
Reflective sunrise on Shelburne Pond
Sunrise at the start of winter field day on Lake Champlain
Fall fieldwork on Lake Champlain
Lake trout with a large rainbow smelt in its stomach
Pulling in a gillnet through the ice
Lake trout captured during fall
Spawning aggregation of lake trout
Winter sampling on Lake Champlain
Channel catfish collected while assisting state biologists
Acoustic receiver and bouy covered in zebra mussels
Burying a mesh egg bag in a lake trout spawning reef

Surgical implantation of acoustic transmitter-Part 1

Surgical implantation of acoustic transmitter-Part 2

Surgical implantation of acoustic transmitter-Part 3

Lake trout released after tagging


Previous research at SUNY Brockport

Stripping eggs from a Chinook salmon for biochemical analyses
Backpack electroshocking for salmon and trout in a tributary of Lake Ontario
Chinook salmon collected for biochemical analyses

Steelhead trout offspring with a natural thiamin deficiency. Video credit: Sage Hallenbeck

Northern pike captured in a trap net
Eyed lake trout eggs
Invasive round goby for feeding experiment
Atlantic salmon collected with gillnets
Size comparison of two spawning male Chinook salmon
Lake trout collected while assisting USGS biologists
Field work with the USGS and their R/V Kaho
Headshot of a sea lamprey
Sunset on Lake Ontario while electrofishing
Snapping and painted turtles from a trap net
American eel captured while night electrofishing
Male rainbow darter with breeding coloration
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