Hello everyone!!! I am super happy and excited to write to you all again! I hope you are having a wonderful time and preparing for the summer! Next week, I will be performing an oral presentation at a conference in Quebéc. While I was preparing my slides – and thinking about all the poutine I … [Read more…]
Ah, spring! There is new life being breathed into everything around us. This time of year always makes me feel inexhaustible like the ever increasing daylight. We emerge from under our layers, our homes and our winter routines to embrace the boundless opportunities like we embrace the warmer days. Here is the problem: I am … [Read more…]
Helloooooo everyone! I hope you are doing great, and enjoying some of the warm days we are having. There you go, 12 °C is warm now! Canada teaches you how to enjoy little things really quick. On my way to MUN, I started seeing forms of life again, including seagulls. To our misfortune, these crazy … [Read more…]
I have heard many times that graduate school is a marathon and not a sprint. In fact, in her blog post last week Amy Sheppard said this very thing! I wanted to expand on this idea because for the past year I spend most of my time either running or working on my thesis. I … [Read more…]
Helloooooooo everyone! I am so excited to be writing for you again! I hope you are all doing well, enjoying all the snow (cause all the freezing rain is hard to enjoy), and having a great time in your Winter semester. In my case, I could not find anything else that could describe my 2019 … [Read more…]
The end of the year is a very reflective time, where we devote more awareness to the important connections in our lives. For this post I wanted to share what I have come to learn about the importance of connection and community during my time in academia. We often feel like we are alone and … [Read more…]
Hello everyone! I hope you are doing well! Around here, time is flying! I forgot how crazy the Fall semester was, but I’m feeling the weight on my shoulders way lighter than last year. I think I got used to the fact of being busy, so instead of freaking out all the time, I’m just … [Read more…]
Hi folks, I am a PhD candidate in the Wildlife Evolutionary Ecology Lab in the Biology Department at MUN. I’ve been in my program for three years, but it is my first fall actually in St. John’s. Until last February, I was tracking wolves in Riding Mountain National Park in Manitoba. You can read a … [Read more…]
The oceans are in peril. Acidification threatens planktons’ ability to produce shells vital to their survival, corals are dying from excess acidity, and rising sea levels threaten coastal communities (Hoegh-Guldberg, Mumby, Hooten, Steneck, Greenfield, Gomez, & Knowlton, 2007). Despite the arm waving of the climate change deniers, these threats are anthropogenic in origin (Hoegh-Guldberg et … [Read more…]
Hello friends! I hope that your St. John’s summer has been going well. It seems like it was a bit late to start, but now that it is here, the sunshine and warm temperatures have been absolutely beautiful around the city recently. Getting out with some friends to see the capelin rolling at Middle Cove … [Read more…]