Kaija Gahm
PhD Student Researcher at SORTEE
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolKaija Gahm is a PhD candidate in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at UCLA with eight years of data-focused research experience combining movement ecology, social network analysis, and reproducible R-based workflows. In the Pinter-Wollman lab she studies multilevel interaction networks and movement behavior in Eurasian Griffon Vultures, bringing quantitative rigor to questions about social behavior in birds and other taxa. Her background includes building and maintaining complex relational databases, developing Shiny apps and data-quality pipelines, and translating messy field data into reusable, public-facing tools. An advocate for open science and beginner-friendly data science education, she pairs strong field experience with software fluency to make ecological data more accessible and trustworthy.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Newton North High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University
French, Spanish, English
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Github Skills (104)
shinydashboard10
development-environment10
ide10
rstudio10
r9
shiny9
reactivity9
data-wrangling9
knitr9
r-package9
reprex9
stable9
organize8
dplyr8
htmlwidgets8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kaijagahm/ygdpDB
Dec 2019 - Jan 2021
Contributions:136 pushes, 78 comments, 93 issues in 1 year 1 month
Collaborative-Vulture-Work/wrap-around-vultures
Aug 2023 - Jul 2024
Contributions:24 PRs, 85 pushes, 16 branches in 11 months
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