Sarah E. Diamond
Principal Investigator

(2018-present) Ecological Society of America Early Career Fellow 
(2017-present) George B. Mayer Assistant Professor of Urban and Environmental Studies
(2014-present) Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University
(2010-2013) Post-doctoral Research Associate, North Carolina State University
(2010) PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 
(2005) BS, Bucknell University

Lacy D. Chick
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Lacy is a postdoc in the lab (2015-present). She is broadly interested in the links between thermal physiology and climate change. Lacy has a MS degree from Middle Tennessee State Univ. where she worked on latitudinal variation in locomotion of the northern water snake and a PhD from the Univ. of Tennessee where she worked on ant macrophysiology.

Abe Perez
PhD Student

Abe is interested in how community structure and biodiversity are influenced by changing environments.

Aaron Yilmaz
​PhD Student

Aaron is interested in how arthropod thermal tolerance, desiccation tolerance, and body size vary geographically, and the evolutionary forces shaping these traits.

Angie Lenard
​PhD Student

Angie is starting in the lab Fall 2018.

Former Lab Members

Stephanie A. Strickler
Research Associate

Stephanie examined how species respond to urban environments, specifically focusing on the physiology and phenology of ants. She is now an instructor at Murray State University.