We had a beautiful day for an Annex potluck / firepit out at UW Madison’s scenic Picnic Point!

The Whitman lab is seeking an undergraduate researcher to assist in a DOE funded project investigating microbial cycling of carbon in post-fire systems. The student […]

The UW-Madison Department of Soil Science is pleased to welcome David Montgomery, professor at U Washington, and author of Dirt: Erosion of Civilizations, The Hidden Half […]

Recruiting: Ph.D. student Project: Systems biology enabled research on the roles of microbial communities in carbon cycle processes – Determination of the roles of pyrophilous microbes in […]

We had a great full-team DOE project meeting in Berkeley last week, after the JGI user meeting. We discussed our results so far, got to […]

Ok, just kidding – of course I haven’t stopped worrying – but it’s been just over a year since I started here, and things are starting to […]

***UPDATE: We have made offers on the UW-Madison positions and are no longer soliciting applications*** Recruiting: Three postdoctoral researchers and one Ph.D. student Project: Systems […]

I am humbled and honoured to have been selected by my department to be appointed to the O.N. Allen Professorship in Soil Microbiology. The five-year professorship began officially […]

Sampling has continued apace up in Wood Buffalo National Park this past week. We keep expanding the number of different ecosites we have visited, with […]

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 […]