Daniel D. Heath

This study compares transcriptomic responses of non-lethal and lethal tissues in Chinook salmon exposed to different salinity levels, finding greater gene expression differences in lethal tissues and positive correlations across time points.

This study identifies 18°C as a critical sublethal thermal threshold for juvenile bull trout, beyond which acclimation capacity declines and stress responses increase.

The paper develops multi-species qPCR assays for a STP-Chip to assess salmonid resilience to environmental stressors, finding tissue and genus-specific amplification success across 8 species.