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Research Interests

  1. Ecophysiology
  2. Molecular Ecology
  3. Marine Climate Change
  4. Life History Theory
  5. Developmental Plasticity

Dr. Christopher Murray

Research Associate III
Biology Department

Contact Information:
christopher.murray@whoi.edu
Building: Redfield Laboratory

Mailing Address:
266 Woods Hole Road, MS #32
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA 02543

Selected Publications

Murray, C.S., Mays, A., Long, M., Aluru, N., (2025) Cross-generational plasticity in Atlantic silversides (Menidia menidia) under the combined effects of hypoxia and acidification. Journal of Experimental Biology 228 (15): jeb249726.

Murray, C.S., Gregg, J.L., Mackenzie, A.H., Jayasekera, H, Hall, S., Klinger, T., Hershberger, P.K., (2024) The effects of elevated pCO2 on bioenergetics and disease susceptibility in Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii). Marine Ecology Progress Series 738:225-242

Murray, C.S., Klinger, T., (2022) High pCO2 does not alter the thermal plasticity of developing Pacific herring embryos during a marine heatwave. Journal of Experimental Biology 225 (5): jeb243501

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Education

Ph.D.: Oceanography. 2019. Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut

M.Sc.: Marine Science. 2014. School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University

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Biography

Chris is an integrative fish biologist who studies how marine fish will cope with the rapid and simultaneous changes in their environment caused by global and regional anthropogenic impacts. He uses experimental tools from the fields of ecophysiology and molecular ecology to measure bioenergetic, biochemical, and transcriptional responses elicited by environmental stressors. His current research is funded by an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology where he is exploring the mechanisms of multi-generational plasticity (transcriptional and epigenetic) of early life exposure to the combined effects of acidification and hypoxia in a coastal forage fish species.