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…]
Hi everyone! I’m Dave, a violin student at MUN, and I’m taking my Master’s degree in Music (Violin) Performing and Pedagogy. If you could see the second person from the bottom left, with a grey pants, yes, that’s me! Could you see how cheerful we were?! It was a bonfire night at The Logy Bay … [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…]
Hi! This is my first blog post, so I ought to introduce myself. I’m Shannon and I just started my Master’s in Sociology at MUN in Fall 2018. I drove out here from southern Ontario on an epic 3-day journey with all the worldly possessions that could fit in my car. My dad and my … [Read more…]
Helloooo readers! Here we are, in the beginning of a new semester, full of different people, classes, and expectations! I’m having flashbacks this all of this week when I see students holding maps in their hands, and I always feel butterflies in my stomach when I look at them. Anyway, I hope you all had … [Read more…]
The graduate student blog is resuming for the 2018-2019 academic year. We are very excited to have nine graduate students on board, who will be sharing with us about their experiences as graduate students at Memorial. Here are bloggers who are returning to our blogging team this year: Anna Crofts is from West Vancouver, British … [Read more…]
Hello lovely readers! I hope you had a lovely (and productive) summer! It felt like summer went by even more quickly than usual. It seems like the winter semester just ended but somehow here we are at the start of the fall semester. I do not know where the time went. All I did this … [Read more…]
Hello all you wonderful blog readers, As I sit here thinking about what to write for my blog post, I’m thinking back on the past two months since my last one, and a lot has happened. In July, I went to Golden, Colorado for one week for the ACS Summer School in Sustainable Chemistry and … [Read more…]
A journal club is similar to a book club, but instead of reading a book, the group reads an academic article. The main benefits of attending journal club are to meet with people that have a common interest and to exchange ideas about those common interests with people you may not otherwise interact with. Like … [Read more…]
Hi All, You can take the ecologist out of the field but she’ll long to be there. For the past five years, when the growing season arrives I’ve packed up my backpack and have headed out to the field to spend the summer working on ecological studies. This summer has been dedicated to thesis writing … [Read more…]