*** Update: The paper has been accepted at ISME J! *** We’ve posted a pre-print version of our paper, Dynamics of microbial community composition and soil organic […]

We are recruiting 1-2 new graduate students (MS or PhD) to join our Soil Ecology lab starting as soon as January 2016. Students will work with […]

I am excited to announce that my three-source, dual-isotope partitioning approach has been published at Nature Communications! The paper describes a new technique to separate one pool (e.g., total […]

I’m officially on the UW-Madison Soil Science website, listed as an Assistant Professor [http://soils.wisc.edu/people/faculty/thea-whitman/], thanks to soil extension outreach specialist Geoff! I’ll be posting a […]

I set myself the goal of writing at least three proposals this year before I officially take up my position at UW Madison next January. How […]

Moss on a leash. Time-lapse video of a bowl of fruit rotting. Larger-than-life worms squirming on a giant screen. I saw all of these at the […]

I’m really excited to be running a booth at the California Academy of Sciences Nightlife tomorrow night. The theme is “Micro“, and we’re gonna have […]

My third Ph.D. dissertation chapter has been published in Environmental Science and Technology. I am feeling pretty proud, and am happy to be getting the work I […]

The SSSA (and CSSA and ASA) annual meeting last week in Long Beach, CA, was awesome! Soil science, and particularly soil ecology, inhabits kind of a […]