This summer, I accepted a tenure-track faculty position as a soil ecologist at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. I wasn’t exactly sure what to […]

I have exciting news about my future: I can officially announce that I will be starting a postdoc in Mary Firestone‘s lab at the University […]

As of last week, I am now officially, completely, 100% Doctor Thea Whitman. To celebrate, I’ve made a wordle of my entire dissertation, so you […]

We got out to my field trial site out at Mt. Pleasant a couple of weeks ago to re-establish the plots, and to sample them […]

[I tried to post this June 6, but it wouldn’t save properly then – I’m just putting it up now.] The official announcement of Cornell’s […]

I gave my “defence” seminar this Thursday. In our department, you give one seminar before your qualifying (“A”) exam, and one before your defence (“B […]

This weekend, Joseph Amsili and I ran a workshop on Life in the Soil as part of Cornell’s Expanding your Horizons science, engineering, and math […]

Today I submitted my first soil microbial DNA sample for Illumina sequencing! I am very excited / nervous. It’s the samples from my field trial this […]

UPDATE: You can see the first workup of my paper here! I’m excited to report that the first chapter of my Ph.D. dissertation has been accepted […]

I just got back to Ithaca last night, after an awesome two weeks out in Richland, Washington at the Pacific Northwest National Lab‘s Environmental Molecular […]