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Real soils used to make state soil map of US… and guess which one’s stuck on NY!
Posted on April 16, 2013Les Gregor is a Canadian artist who made this awesome soils map of the US, using the real state soil for each state: The Soil […]
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Soil Carbon Controversies in the Classroom
Posted on April 4, 2013I gave the lecture in our Soil Ecology course today: Soils, Carbon, and Climate Change. It was really fun! I’ve been giving that lecture for […]
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Academic engagement with Stephen Pacala
Posted on April 1, 2013I had an interesting lunch today with Stephen Pacala, along with Fiona, Sam, and Bhavya (other biogeochemistry students at Cornell). Dr. Pacala has a pretty cool […]
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Shocking news: Honeoye soil about to be trampled on?!
Posted on March 28, 2013After Canada abandoning the UNCCD, another shocking story this morning – NY Senator John J. Bonacic is trying to name a new NY state soil […]
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Canada abandons the UNCCD!
Posted onCanada is leaving the UN Convention to Combat Desertification! This seems so crazy to me. We will now be the only country that is not […]
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Canada abandons the UNCCD!
Posted onCanada is leaving the UN Convention to Combat Desertification! This seems so crazy to me. We will now be the only country that is not […]
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SPRANG BREAAAK! (What happens in the lab hopefully won’t stay in the lab, via publication)
Posted on March 20, 2013Today’s the spring equinox! I’ve really been enjoying Cornell’s Spring Break, not because I’m on vacation, and not even because the campus is empty, but just […]
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Being an “Expert Reviewer” for the IPCC!
Posted on March 6, 2013I’m excited to be helping review the IPCC’s 5th assessment report. The Working Group III (Mitigation of Climate Change) has their second draft out for […]
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The value of a Ph.D. in the House of Commons
Posted on February 22, 2013I read Marc Jaccard’s article in the Walrus this morning, and it made me pretty sad. When I started graduate school five years ago, I […]
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Multivariate Statistics or: How I learned to stop limiting my analyses and love n-dimensionality, matrix algebra, and R
Posted on February 18, 2013Or, at least, that’s what I’d like the title to be at the end of this semester. I’m auditing a multivariate statistics course this semester, […]