Caroline Terry, a doctoral student in the lab of Wes Dowd (SBS), along with two co-authors Josie Liebzeit and Ella Purvis, published an article in the Journal of Experimental Biology (2024) titled, Interactive effects of temperature and salinity on metabolism and activity of the intertidal copepod Tigriopus californicus (doi:10.1242/jeb.248040). In this article, Terry et al. found that the metabolic rate and activity of this species of intertidal copepod decreased with increasing salinity, which was reversed with decreasing salinity exposure. By contrast, elevated temperature led to reduced rates of activity overall, resulting in no discernible impact on metabolic rate. This suggests that swimming activity must be accounted for when estimating the response of metabolic rate in changing environmental conditions. They also found that the effects of temperature on activity depended on salinity level, with more dramatic temperature-dependent reductions in activity with higher salinity. This group used Loligo respirometry microplanes and behavior analysis software available in the Aquatic Phenomics Research Center.