Will Bugg

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Liber Ero Fellow PhD from the University of Manitoba. Postdoc with UBC and PSF. Conservation and physiological responses to environmental stressors. From NC -> AL -> MB -> BC.

Juvenile lake sturgeon

Graphical depiction of the changes to the muscle transcriptome that result in persistent enhanced growth phenotypes in lake sturgeon

Different process which changed in the gill of lake sturgeon during early development.

Lake sturgeon embryos developing on an egg mat

Hiking on a narrow rocky trail overlooking the ocean with islands in the background

A white sturgeon being released from a fish cradle

A graph showing the whole body cortisol content of juvenile lake sturgeon exposed to thermal stress either alone or in a group of 3 or 6. Fish that were exposed to thermal stress alone had higher levels of cortisol than in either larger group.

Juvenile lake sturgeon in a respirometer

Photo of Will Bugg holding a lake sturgeon recently caught during spawning in Manitoba

A wooden sturgeon ornament hung in a Christmas tree

Paneled figure depicting a) the probability of a viral pathogen PRV detection in Atlantic salmon on salmon farms reaching nearly 100% the longer fish were on farm conditions b) the proportion of PRV positive chinook salmon in relation to distance to an active aquaculture site with PRV fish being more likely to detect closer to aquaculture and c) the global transmission of PRV from Norway and Iceland to British Columbia and Chile.

Juvenile white sturgeon on a hand

This illustration depicts north america colored te to burnt orange, highlighting temperature differences across the continent. The 8 north american sturgeon species ring the outside of the map. Each sturgeon species is underlaid by a color which corresponds with dots on the map. The dots on the map show where thermal tolerance studies were completed, and the size of the dot corresponds to how many studies were completed in that area. Illustration by Madison Earhart.