I am currently a Research Fish Biologist at the NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center. Previously, I spent time as a Hutchinson Postdoctoral Researcher in Dr. Martha Muñoz's lab at Yale University. I also received my PhD in Ecology from UC Davis, where I was in the Wainwright Lab. I am broadly interested in the underlying ecological processes that drive diversification in fishes. I use a combination of phylogenetic comparative methods and functional morphology to study the evolution of body shape in response to different selective pressures.

I spend a lot of my time in the lab using R, but when I'm not in lab I really enjoy getting outdoors and away from my computer screen. In my spare time, you can probably find me rock climbing, hiking, backpacking, or traveling.

Feel free to send me an email if you want to talk fish, phylogenetics, or just be friendly!

Email address:

sarah.friedman [at] noaa [dot] gov

Mailing address:

Alaska Fisheries Science Center
NOAA Fisheries
7600 Sand Point Way N.E.
Seattle, WA 98115