Tag: Soil Ecology

Life in the Soil workshop for middle school girls

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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 conference for middle school girls, with the help of the CSS grad students. It was so much fun! We designed a workshop focused on soil organic matter and soil ecology, …

Birthday Post

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I just grabbed some Whatman No.1 filters for the decomposition lab in Soil Ecology – the course that I’ll be TAing this semester. It’s Dr. Janice Thies’s course, and it is a lot of fun. We look at the soil organisms – nematode and arthropod extractions, bacterial and fungal isolations, and even DNA extraction, we …