Amphibians are the most threatened vertebrates, yet their resilience to warming climates remains largely uncharacterized. Indeed, over 40% of amphibian species including terrestrial salamanders globally are threatened, and their decline is further exacerbated by the effects of warming climates on their habitats. As ectotherms, their body temperatures and metabolic rates are linked closely to ambient conditions such as soil temperature, causing their energetic demands to rise under climate warming. This is particularly true for the Eastern red-backed salamander (Plethodon cinereus), which spends its entire life cycle in close contact with the soil, making it an effective bioindicator of temperature-sensitive ecological changes in woodland ecosystems. To compensate for warming, eastern red-backed salamanders may opt to select cooler microhabitats to forage, such as climbing to higher elevations above the forest floor, to maintain lower body temperatures. In this study, I captured thermal images of salamanders in situ using an infrared camera, followed by additional thermal imaging of their surrounding environment during a series of nocturnal surveys under wet conditions. Sampling occurred at an ongoing, long-term soil warming experiment at the Harvard Forest Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) site to gain more insights on the compensatory responses of Eastern red-backed salamanders under sustained soil warming plots. The site contains 18 6x6 m plots across three treatment groups: heated plots warmed +5°C above ambient using buried electrical cables, disturbance control plots with inactive cables, and unmanipulated control plots. By comparing salamander and ambient temperatures, along with microhabitat and surrounding area averages via thermal imaging, we hope to better elucidate the behavioral plasticity of these salamanders in response to warming. Understanding such responses to climate warming is critical for assessing how other ectotherms may persist under climate change and guiding biodiversity conservation strategies in forest ecosystems.