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 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 […]

[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 […]

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

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 […]

*** 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

I set myself the goal of writing at least three proposals this year before I officially take up my position at UW Madison next January. How […]