GrrlScientist is an evolutionary biologist, ornithologist, aviculturist, birder and freelance science and nature writer. A native of the Pacific Northwest, she relocated from Seattle to NYC with her parrots after earning a BS in Microbiology (emphasis in Virology) and PhD in Zoology (Ornithology) from the University of Washington. In NYC, she was the Chapman Postdoctoral Fellow at the American Museum of Natural History for two years, pursuing part of her "dream" research project by reconstructing a molecular phylogeny of the parrots of the South Pacific islands. GrrlScientist and her five parrots are currently relocating to Germany, where she will continue writing her blog while also writing a book and learning German. (Meanwhile, her parrots will continue to nibble on her extensive personal library.) If you appreciate GrrlScientist's writing, you can help pay her living expenses by hiring her to "blog" your conference, speak at your club or write articles for your publication (or by clicking on the Paypal button below). If you read an essay on this blog that you especially enjoyed, please nominate it for inclusion in 
tags: Exactum Building, architecture, University of Helsinki, Helsingin Yliopisto, Kumpula campus
Spiral staircase, Exactum Building, University of Helsinki, Kumpula campus, Helsinki, Finland.
Image: GrrlScientist, 3 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)
I spent a few hours on the Kumpula campus of the University of Helsinki yesterday, which is where this photograph was snapped. Today, I am returning to the beautiful island of Seurasaari, where I will take more photographs to share with you. Stay tuned for more (I've already taken several hundred photographs that I've saved -- and more than twice that many that I've deleted).
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