Erika J. Eliason
Research Scientist
Ecosystem Sciences Division, Science Branch
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Affiliate Faculty – UC Santa Barbara
Affiliate Faculty – University of British Columbia
Adjunct Faculty – Simon Fraser University
email: eliason@ucsb.edu; erika.eliason@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
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Postdoctoral Fellows
Kim Birnie-Gauvin
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2021-2024
Current position: Researcher, Danish Technical University
Research Overview: Intraspecific differences in energetics, swim performance and upper thermal tolerance limits across Pacific salmon species.
Naomi Pleizier
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2022-2025
Current position: Biologist, Nova Pacific
Research Overview: Maximum swimming performance in adult salmon.
Gail Schwieterman
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2020-2022
Current position: Assistant Professor at University of Maine
Research Overview: Cardiac responses to thermal variability; mechanisms of cardiac collapse at upper thermal limits.
Alex Little
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016-2019
Current position: Assistant Professor at McMaster University
Research Overview: Mechanisms of sex-specific differences in mortality in Pacific salmon; costs and limits of phenotypic plasticity.
PhD Students
Jacey Van Wert
PhD Student, 2018-2024
Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow, NOAA
Thesis: Conservation Physiology of Fishes in the Anthropocene
Emily Hardison
PhD Student, 2017-2023
Current position: NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pittsburgh
Thesis: Feeding for resilience: how nutrition mediates organismal responses to temperature
Terra Dressler
PhD Student, 2017-2023
Current position: Fisheries Biologist, Stillwater Consulting
Thesis: Distribution, thermal tolerance, and vulnerability of stream fishes in a warming world
Jasmine Childress
PhD Student, 2020-2023; Co-advised by Kevin Lafferty
Current position: Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Thesis: The parasite ecology of the San Miguel Island Fox, Urocyon littoralis littoralis
Krista Kraskura
PhD Student, 2017-2022
Current position: Assistant Professor at Towson University
Thesis: Causes and consequences of body size-specific vulnerability to warming in fishes
James Leo Loving Lichtenstein
PhD Student, 2020
Current position: Assistant Professor at Sacred Heart University
MSc Students
Madison Heard
MS Student, 2021-2023
Jessica Madden
MS Student, 2019-2023; Co-advised by Jenny Dugan
Noa Mayer
MS Student, 2021-2022; University of British Columbia, co-advised by Scott Hinch
Clay Steell
MSc Student, 2016-2018; Carleton University, co-advised by Steven J. Cooke
Tanya Prystay
MSc Student, 2016-2018; Carleton University, co-advised by Steven J. Cooke
Melissa Dick
MSc Student, 2014-2016; Carleton University, co-advised by Steven J. Cooke
Undergraduate Students
We have had the pleasure of working with over 45 talented and diverse undergraduate students.