Ok, just kidding – of course I haven’t stopped worrying – but it’s been just over a year since I started here, and things are starting to […]

***UPDATE: We have made offers on the UW-Madison positions and are no longer soliciting applications*** Recruiting: Three postdoctoral researchers and one Ph.D. student Project: Systems […]

I am humbled and honoured to have been selected by my department to be appointed to the O.N. Allen Professorship in Soil Microbiology. The five-year professorship began officially […]

Sampling has continued apace up in Wood Buffalo National Park this past week. We keep expanding the number of different ecosites we have visited, with […]

I’m up in Wood Buffalo National Park for a few weeks with collaborators from the Canadian Forest Service and the University of Alberta. We are […]

I’m excited to announce that the JGI accepted our CSP 2016 proposal, “Contrasting metagenomes from soil amended with pyrogenic and fresh organic matter: Implications for carbon […]

Congratulations to lab member Michael Braus, who was recently awarded a UW-Madison Student Research Travel Grant! He will be using it to travel to the Microbial Diversity […]

[Update: position reopened; applications now due July 1. If you applied in the first round, we still have your information on file.] We are recruiting a […]

The CALS team at UW-Madison did a mini-Q&A with me to introduce me to the college – it’s posted here.

Yesterday marked my first month as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Soil Science at UW-Madison! Coming from the fantasyland of a Californian postdoc, I quickly remembered my […]