I'm a doctor!

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I'm very pleased to say I passed my dissertation defense and I'm finally a doctor of ecology! Well, at least according to my academic advising committee. I still need to submit edits to my dissertation that my committee recommended for my degree to be official, but I have a few months to do so. Post-defense edits are extremely common and the suggestions I received are quite manageable, so that's a huge relief. Once I get edits submitted, I'm off to prep for my post doc position doing avian population modeling, which I'm extremely excited about. That unfortunately requires a move across the country, but I'll be moving to a city I've lived in previously, working for an institution I have a long history with, so hopefully it won't be too much of a struggle. Either way, I'm excited to move on from my dissertation work to something new.