I gave my “defence” seminar this Thursday. In our department, you give one seminar before your qualifying (“A”) exam, and one before your defence (“B […]

This 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 […]

Today 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 […]

UPDATE: 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 […]

I 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 […]

It’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 […]

I just found out that my poster presentation was selected as one of the Outstanding Student Presentation Awards at the AGU 2013 fall meeting, in […]

As the last day of AGU approaches, I am pleased to report that the meeting has been excellent. Here is what I love about it […]

I’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. […]

Fun 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 […]