Sarah E. Diamond

Diamond graduated from Bucknell University in 2005 and then gained her Ph.D. in the field of biology from the Kingsolver Lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2010. Until 2013, she worked as a postdoctoral research assistant in the Department of Biological Sciences at North Carolina State University.{{cite web |title=People| url=https://www.diamond-lab.org/people.html |website=People |publisher=Diamond Lab |access-date=9 November 2018}}{{cite web |title=Sarah E. Diamond |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sarah_Diamond |access-date=9 November 2018}}

Since 2014, Diamond has been an assistant professor in the Department of Biology at Case Western Reserve University. In 2017, she was appointed as the George B. Mayer Chair in Urban and Environmental Studies.

Much of Diamond's research focuses on predicting how ecological systems and biological organisms will respond to novel environments. Utilizing field study, laboratory research, and computational modeling, she examines the environmental forces that drive organisms to change and the mechanisms that organisms may employ in order to evolve and cope.

Diamond's research predicts how plants and animals will react to the changing climate and also provides insight into how human behavior affects the mechanisms that force these changes, and how humans may be able to mitigate or avoid those mechanisms.

Her work on urban evolution gives an indication of how species may respond to stressors such as temperature change. Species display varying abilities to respond to altered environments through both phenotypic plasticity and genetic evolution.{{cite journal |last1=Bender |first1=Eric |title=Urban evolution: How species adapt to survive in cities |journal=Knowable Magazine |publisher= Annual Reviews |date=21 March 2022 |doi=10.1146/knowable-031822-1 |doi-access=free |url=https://knowablemagazine.org/article/living-world/2022/urban-evolution-species-adapt-survive-cities |access-date=31 March 2022}}{{cite journal |last1=Diamond |first1=Sarah E. |last2=Martin |first2=Ryan A. |title=Evolution in Cities |journal=Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics |date=2 November 2021 |volume=52 |issue=1 |pages=519–540 |doi=10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-012021-021402 |s2cid=239646134 |url=https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-012021-021402 |access-date=1 April 2022 |language=en |issn=1543-592X|doi-access=free }}{{cite journal |last1=Diamond |first1=Sarah E |last2=Chick |first2=Lacy D |last3=Perez |first3=Abe |last4=Strickler |first4=Stephanie A |last5=Zhao |first5=Crystal |title=Evolution of plasticity in the city: urban acorn ants can better tolerate more rapid increases in environmental temperature |journal=Conservation Physiology |date=14 June 2018 |volume=6 |issue=1 |pages=coy030 |doi=10.1093/conphys/coy030 |pmid=29977563 |pmc=6007456 |issn=2051-1434}}

Diamond's work with the acorn ant on urban evolution is helping scientists to better understand how creatures respond to environmental stressors, and how evolution works. Urban environments tend to be hotter and change temperature more rapidly than rural ones. Urban populations of acorn ants have evolved both improved heat tolerance and increased phenotypic plasticity in response to temperature changes in their environment.{{cite news |last1=Yin |first1=Steph |title=What Makes a City Ant? Maybe Just 100 Years of Evolution |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/03/science/acorn-ants-evolution-cleveland.html |access-date=1 April 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=3 April 2017}}

Diamond also studies the movement of butterfly species, with the help of citizen scientists. Some species are moving into new territory, while others are not. Diamond is studying why, and whether specific traits in different butterfly species relate to their range.{{cite web |title=NSF Award Search: Award # 1845126 - CAREER: Butterflies on the move: integrating biogeography, physiology and citizen science towards a mechanistic understanding of contemporary range shifts |url=https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1845126&HistoricalAwards=false |website=www.nsf.gov |access-date=1 April 2022 |language=en}}

Diamond's scientific publications have been cited 3796 times as of April 1, 2022, giving her an h-index of 33.{{cite web |title=Sarah E. Diamond |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KRULmrUAAAAJ&hl=en |website=Citations |publisher=Google Scholar |access-date=1 April 2022}}

Among Diamond's most-cited publications are two papers on phenotypic selection. In "Synthetic analyses of phenotypic selection in natural populations: lessons, limitations and future directions", she takes a meta-approach towards analyzing the thousands of published estimations of phenotypic selection, and she uses her analysis to consider how these past estimations may guide her future estimations.{{cite journal |last1=Diamond |first1=Sarah |title=Synthetic analyses of phenotypic selection in natural populations: lessons, limitations and future directions |journal=Evolutionary Ecology |volume=26 |issue=5 |pages=1101–1118 |doi=10.1007/s10682-012-9563-5 |year=2012 |s2cid=16864371 }} In "Phenotypic Selection in Natural Populations: What Limits Directional Selection?" Diamond explores the implications of direct selection, which is a form of natural selection that favors dominant genes over non-dominant genes.{{cite journal |last1=Diamond |first1=Sarah |title=Phenotypic Selection in Natural Populations: What Limits Directional Selection? |journal=The American Naturalist |volume=177 |issue=3 |pages=346–357 |doi=10.1086/658341 |pmid=21460543 |year=2011 |s2cid=26806172 }}

• 2018, Early Career Fellow, Ecological Society of America{{cite web |title=Dr. Sarah Diamond elected Early Career Fellow of the Ecological Society of America March 15, 2018 |url=http://biology.case.edu/2018/03/15/dr-sarah-diamond-elected-early-career-fellow-of-the-ecological-society-of-america/ |website=Department of Biology |publisher=Case Western Reserve University |access-date=9 November 2018}}
• 2019, Early Career Development (CAREER) grant, National Science Foundation (NSF){{cite news |title=Biology's Sarah Diamond granted prestigious NSF CAREER award |url=https://thedaily.case.edu/biologys-sarah-diamond-granted-prestigious-nsf-career-award/ |access-date=1 April 2022 |work=The Daily |publisher=Case Western Reserve University |date=22 July 2019}}

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