Above: Redband trout encountered while fly fishing a local river.

Adaptive Capacity of Redband Trout

I am currently working on designing agent-based models to understand the adaptive capacity of Redband trout in Idaho as part of the Idaho GEM3 project. Much of this work is on-going, and in collaboration with folks from across Idaho.

Currently my focus has been on extending CDMetaPOP to include plasticity in the models to understand its impact on population persistence in combination with local adaptation (see GitHub page here). This has been in collaboration with Erin Landguth from the University of Montana. This will likely be published as a theoretical paper, prior to incorporating the wide-array of empirical data that are currently being collected.