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My Final Crop and Soil Science Seminar
Posted on May 3, 2014I gave my “defence” seminar this Thursday. In our department, you give one seminar before your qualifying (“A”) exam, and one before your defence (“B […]
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Life in the Soil workshop for middle school girls
Posted on April 13, 2014This 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 […]
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Baby’s first Illumina MiSeq submission!
Posted on March 17, 2014Today 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 […]
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First Ph.D. chapter to be published in Soil Biology and Biochemistry!
Posted on February 10, 2014UPDATE: 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 […]
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NanoSIMS at the national lab (PNNL-EMSL)
Posted on January 24, 2014I 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 […]
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2013 retrospective: 1-year anniversary!
Posted on December 30, 2013It’s been one year since I launched my research website! Once again, I was taking the train from Halifax to Toronto on my way home […]
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Outstanding Student Presentation Award at AGU!
Posted on December 22, 2013I just found out that my poster presentation was selected as one of the Outstanding Student Presentation Awards at the AGU 2013 fall meeting, in […]
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5 reasons AGU is awesome
Posted on December 12, 2013As the last day of AGU approaches, I am pleased to report that the meeting has been excellent. Here is what I love about it […]
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Poster vs. Presentation: the face-off
Posted on December 11, 2013I’m at the American Geophysical Union‘s fall meeting in San Francisco this week, along with about 20,000 other… geophysicists, if that’s what we’re collectively called. […]
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100 Citations on Google Scholar!
Posted on October 26, 2013Fun fact: my total citations hit 100 today on Google Scholar (h-index = 5)! Still a long way to go, but it’s exciting to see that […]