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  • Update from Wood Buffalo National Park

    Posted on June 19, 2016

    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 […]

  • Exciting news from the JGI

    Posted on May 23, 2016

    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 Mike!

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    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 […]

  • Hiring lab technician / manager

    Posted on April 18, 2016

    [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 […]

  • CALS profile

    Posted on February 22, 2016

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

  • First Month of being an Assistant Professor

    Posted on February 12, 2016

    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 […]

  • Effects of char additions to soil on microbial community composition and CO2 emissions

    Posted on December 8, 2015

    *** 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 […]

  • Recruiting Graduate Students in Soil Ecology at UW-Madison

    Posted on November 13, 2015

    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 […]

  • Paper in Nature Communications: Three-source dual-isotope partitioning

    Posted on November 4, 2015

    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 […]

  • It’s official…

    Posted on October 14, 2015

    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 […]

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