Estefany Argueta

A physiological ecologist studying thermal adaptation in marine ectotherms under climate change. Her research integrates experimental physiology, field ecology, and genetics to understand how marine vertebrates respond to thermal stress. By distinguishing phenotypic plasticity from genetic adaptation, her work generates mechanistic predictions about population persistence under various climate scenarios. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she combines controlled experiments with long-term field studies to address fundamental questions in thermal biology while informing conservation management for climate-threatened species.