Tomas O Höök

Assistant Professor

Department: Forestry and Natural Resources
Phone: 765.496.6799
Fax: 765.496.2422
Office: FORS 211
E-mail: thook@purdue.edu
Personal Web Page

Area of Expertise: Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Research Group	Facilities	Areas of Excellence
Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences	Aquatic Molecular Biology and Analytical Lab Aquatic Ecology Research Lab Fish Ecology Lab Aquaculture Research Lab	Partnering for Land Use Sustainability

I am interested in environmental questions at the interface between applied and basic ecology. To address such questions I use an adaptive research approach and employ a variety of research methods (e.g., field sampling, controlled experiments, statistical analysis, simulation modeling). The focus of my research is fish and fisheries ecology in the Laurentian Great Lakes. However, I also study lower trophic level organisms and both smaller freshwater and larger marine ecosystems

- Recent Publications

Wilson, A. E., D. C. Gossiaux, T. O. Hook, J. P. Berry, J. Dyble, P. F. Landrum, & S. J. Guildford (2008). Evaluation of the human health threat associated with the hepatotoxin, microcystin, in the muscle and liver tissues of yellow perch (Perca flavescens). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 65.

Wang, H., T. O. Hook, M. P. Ebener, L. C. Mohr, & P. J. Schneeberger (2008). Spatial and temporal variation of maturation schedules of lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) in the Great Lakes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 65.

Hook, T. O., E. S. Rutherford, T. Croley, D. M. Mason, & C. P. Madenjian (2008). Annual variation in habitat-specific recruitment success: Implications from an individual-based model of Lake Michigan alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences., 65.

Hook, T. O., E. Gorokhova, & S. Hansson (2008). RNA:DNA ratios of Baltic herring larvae and copepods in embayment and open sea habitats. Estuarine, Coastal, and Shelf Science, 76.

Vanderploeg, H. A., S. A. Ludsin, S. A. Ruberg, T. O. Hook, S. A. Pothoven, S. B. Brandt, G. A. Lang, J. R. Liebig, & J. F. Cavaletto (2008). Hypoxia affects spatial distribution of pelagic fish, zooplankton, and phytoplankton in Lake Erie. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, ?.

Vanderploeg, H. A., S. A. Ludsin, J. F. Cavaletto, T. O. Hook, S. A. Pothoven, S. B. Brandt, J. R. Liebig, & G. A. Lang (2008). Hypoxic zones as habitat for zooplankton in Lake Erie: refuges from predation or exclusions zones?. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology., ?.

Dufour, E., T. O. Hook, W. Patterson, & E. S. Rutherford (2008). High-resolution isotope analysis of age-0 alewife Alosa pseudoharengus otoliths: assessment of temporal resolution and reconstruction of habitat occupancy and thermal history. Journal of Fish Biology, 73.

Pothoven, S. A., H. A. Vanderploeg, S. A. Ludsin, T. O. Hook, & S. B. Brandt (2008). Feeding ecology of rainbow smelt and emerald shiner in Lake Erie’s central basin. Journal of Great Lakes Research, ?.

Hook, T. O., & S. A. Pothoven (2008). Energy dynamics of young alewives in eastern Lake Michigan and Muskegon Lake, a connected drowned river mouth lake. North American Journal of Fisheries Management., ?.

Pothoven, S. A., S. A. Ludsin, T. O. Hook, D. Fanslow, D. M. Mason, P. Collingsworth, & J. Van Tassel (2008). An evaluation of bioelectrical impedance analysis for estimating fish energy, lipid, and water content. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 137.