Evolutionary Ecology & Physiology
UOW PERL Research Fellow
(Prioritising Emerging Research Leaders)
School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences
Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health
University of Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia
cfriesen at uow dot edu dot au
PhD in Zoology, Oregon State University, 2013
BSc in Zoology w/ Chemistry minor, Summa Cum Laude, Oregon State University, 2006
BSc in Philosophy, Summa Cum Laude, Oregon State University, 2006
Our research questions are inspired by the awe and curiosity engendered by the natural variation in the world and by watching animals do what they do.
Charles Darwin captured this sense of awe in writing:
"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. ―On the Origin of Species (1859)
Our research program integrates lab and field-based behavioural ecology to understand the evolutionary processes that generate and maintain sexually dimorphic and intrasexual polymorphic behaviour, physiology, and morphology (biological function) across the landscape.
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