Soil Microbial Ecology and Biogeochemistry
I was honoured to receive the Outstanding TA Award for CSS last week. For reasons pictured in the photo below, the award has been come to be known as the “Golden Apple” award. There was a nice luncheon for the TAs from across the departments, where I was proud to find that many of my …
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 …