Peyton Thomas

  • Postdoctoral Scholar

Fish physiology • Climate change impacts

Peyton Thomas is a fish physiologist focused on changing climate regimes and the impacts on fish growth trajectories. 

She currently studies the growth potential of Arctic fishes across Interior Alaska and Canadian Yukon Territories through bioenergetics modeling using hindcast and forecast river conditions as part of the Arctic Rivers Project. This project is working to incorporate Indigenous Knowledge into the research questions, model parameters, and model outputs to improve our understanding of how fish and communities may adapt to climate change.

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Advisors: Cassandra Brooks  Keith Musselman 

 

Peyton and her Postdoc advisor Cassandra Brooks did a short ice fishing trip in Alaska during a 2023 American Fisheries Society conference.  Click to zoom.

Peyton Thomas (center) with Cassandra Brooks (left) in Alaska.
Peyton Thomas stands on a frozen Alaskan lake with five other people
Peyton Thomas in a long puffy jacket holds a recently caught fish on a frozen lake with a red tent beside her.