Rooted in Soil

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 […]

Soil Ecology at the California Academy of Sciences Nightlife tomorrow night!

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 […]

World Soils Day is coming – December 5th, 2014!

Latest paper: Soil with less easily-decomposable C is more susceptible to C loss with charcoal additions (over the short term…)

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 […]

Soils Soils Soils America (SSSA) Meeting

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 […]

My Experience with the Academic Interview Process

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 […]

Cornell to Berkeley to Madison: my next two years

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 […]

Ph.D. dissertation, in lurid colour

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 […]

Field Season!

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 […]

Cornell subsumes Crop and Soil Science department into School of Integrative Plant Science

[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 […]