Bio

I am a biologist and data scientist. Currently, I’m studying vultures’ social and spatial networks in Noa Pinter-Wollman’s lab. Previously, I worked with the Cary Institute to manage a relational database and improve data-management workflows. I also applied many of the same ideas to my work with a linguistics research group at Yale, where I built a relational database and an interactive Shiny dashboard to make it easier for researchers and the public to explore the project’s findings.

I did my B.S. in E&EB at Yale, where I studied physiological tradeoffs in wood frog tadpoles (talk | paper).

I’m interested in advocating for open and reproducible data science and helping others to apply these ideas to their own work. I’m on the Board of Directors for SORTEE. On this site, I also describe some of my own insights in (hopefully!) friendly language.

Education

University of California, Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA Ph.D. Student in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | September 2021 - Present

Yale University | New Haven, CT B.S. in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | September 2016 - May 2020

Work

Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies | Database Specialist | June 2020 - August 2021

Yale Grammatical Diversity Project | Research Assistant | September 2018 - March 2021

Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History | Student Museum Assistant (Entomology) | September 2016 - May 2020

Contact

I’d love to hear from you! You can find me online using the links to the left, or email me at kaija.gahm@aya.yale.edu.