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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

[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 […]