NTNU CENTRE FOR BIODIVERSITY DYNAMICS
NEW IN TRONDHEIM Cameron Ghalambor, August 2020
From Colorado to Trondheim I joined CBD in August 2020 after spending the last 17 years at Colorado State University. I consider myself to be an integrative evolutionary ecologist – which means I’m interested in how organisms behaviorally and physiologically respond to the environment and how these responses influence subsequent ecological and evolutionary change. My research interests are fairly broad, and I’m most excited by questions at the intersection of evolution, ecology, physiology, and behavior. I have current projects on microgeographic adaptation in morphology and physiology in birds, the role of phenotypic plasticity in rapid evolution of fish, trade-offs between physiological tolerance and biotic interactions with competitors, predators, and parasites in insects and fish, and the physiological correlates of vulnerability to global change in ectotherms.
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I was drawn to CBD and Biology at NTNU because so many researchers are interested in similar questions, making the transition a very exciting and natural one.
However, moving from the United States to Norway during a global pandemic was certainly challenging and it wasn’t obvious my family and I would be able to travel until a month before our departure. Fortunately, my wonderful new colleagues in CBD made the transition an easy one once we arrived. While there is a lot for me to learn, I’m looking forward to the new opportunities ahead.
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