Heather Liwanag
Heather Liwanag, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
805-756-5202
hliwanag@calpoly.edu
33-375 office
33-473 lab
Education
B.S. Biology, University of California, San Diego
Ph.D. Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Research Interests
- Comparative Physiology
- Thermal Biology
- Physiological Ecology
- Evolutionary Physiology
- Animal Behavior
Advising Interests
- Biology of vertebrate animals, especially reptiles and marine mammals
- Functional morphology
- Environmental physiology
Research
I am interested in the physiological adaptations of animals to their environment, and the evolutionary processes involved in those adaptations. Much of my research has focused on thermoregulation - the regulation of body temperature - in both endotherms and ectotherms.