Congratulations to Pauline Capelle whose first data chapter entitled “Pre-natal stress exposure generates higher early survival and smaller size without impacting developmental rate in a Pacific salmon” was just accepted for publication in the Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological Genetics and Physiology. Working with co-supervisor Dr. Christina Semeniuk, Semeniuk-Love lab post-doc Dr. Natalie Sopinka and Dr. John Heath of Yellow Island Aquaculture Ltd, Pauline’s results demonstrate that elevations in egg cortisol can positively influence offspring fitness through an increase in early survival while also altering phenotype at a critical life-history stage. Overall, her work suggests that exposure to pre-natal stress may not always produce apparently ‘negative’ impacts on offspring fitness and further proposes that complex phenotypic responses should be examined in relevant environmental conditions. Tremendous work Pauline.