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Kiirsti Owen
Dec 16, 20214 min read
Advice to PhD students from a new PhD *candidate*: surviving your candidacy exam
On Tuesday, I became a PhD candidate. If you're not familiar with the process (I certainly wasn't until well into grad school), when you...
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Kiirsti Owen
Aug 7, 20204 min read
A few tips for defending online, from someone who just defended
I successfully defended my Master's thesis via Zoom a couple of weeks ago, and I've been reflecting on what worked well as I prepared and...
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Kiirsti Owen
Mar 25, 20204 min read
Being productive through a pandemic as a grad student
The title is misleading. This isn’t going to be another post about how to be productive while working from home. There are already many...
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Kiirsti Owen
Mar 9, 20203 min read
How to stay focused & productive* while working from home
Edit: **I originally wrote this before coronavirus hit Canada in a big way, once it did I was struggling with productivity myself, and...
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Kiirsti Owen
Nov 30, 20193 min read
The 25 days of chRistmas: an R advent calendaR
Thank you for your interest in this advent calendar and learning R! R is a powerful tool for data analysis and visualization. At first,...
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Kiirsti Owen
Sep 1, 20195 min read
Advice to grad students from a grad student: first conference
"The self-made inferno of the academic junk bond era is the conferences, where the din of ambition is as deafening as on the floor of the...
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Kiirsti Owen
Jul 4, 20194 min read
Tropical Dry Forests - Part Two: The Wet Season
Before you start reading: have you read Part One? If not, STOP, and head over to my previous post. It will be a better experience if you...
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Kiirsti Owen
May 3, 20193 min read
Tropical Dry Forests - Part One: The Dry Season
Welcome to the tropical dry forests of Guanacaste, Costa Rica! You can see in the photo above (Fig. 1) where this ecosystem gets its...
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Kiirsti Owen
Apr 9, 20195 min read
Climbing Mountains & Overcoming Old Fears
Okay, not literal mountains, though I totally recommend that too - the feeling I get from summiting a mountain peak is the same wonderful...
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Kiirsti Owen
Feb 3, 20197 min read
Advice to new grad students from a new grad student
After five months of grad school, I'm just over a quarter of the way through (assuming I can finish in two years, which is my goal) and I...
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Kiirsti Owen
Jan 27, 20191 min read
Welcome to my new website & blog
Through my research and field work, I get to visit some very cool places. I really enjoy the work and research I am involved in and I...
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