Great work Josué Rodríguez-Ramos 🇵🇷 and Natalie Sadler PNNLSoilsSFA showing the importance of structured environments for capturing soil microbial phenotypes in culturing experiments!

Happy to share our latest work on CH4 emission mitigation using transgenic rice plants: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… We uncover that it is altered rice root exudates that reduce the total microbial-derived H2 pool ultimately decreasing the associated hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis

Anthropogenic impacts on the terrestrial subsurface biosphere Amundson & co assess the importance and diversity of microbial life in the deep terrestrial subsurface & discuss how anthropogenic activity impacts microbial composition and activity in engineered subsurface systems.

We're recruiting a postdoctoral scholar to work on biogeochemical modelling: soilenvsci.wisc.edu/people/job-opp…

📢Looking for a job!📢 With the PhD defense in my rearview I am throwing my hat in the academic job market. I specialize in crop-soil-microbe interactions, N biogeochem, cereal-legume intercropping, etc. Would prefer a post-doc or other research postings, remote or hybrid!

Emergency bulletin! 14 journals have co-published an urgent call for the deployment of microbial solutions against climate catastrophe, by Raquel Peixoto et al. nature.com/articles/s4156…

For women in academia, barriers to having children aren't just finding partners or preserving fertility. It's systemic barriers—relentless relocations, temporary contracts, focus on individual achievement—planning for a family is like an impossible luxury.science.org/content/articl…

If you're planning on going to AGU and are interested in Soils and / or DNA + RNA viruses, swing by my poster! Abstract ID: 1759782 Session: B31I: Advancing Soil Carbon Predictions: From Micro- to Global Scale I Poster Date: Wednesday, 11 December 2024; 08:30 – 12:20 EST

Spent my morning moderating the first half of the UC Berkeley Berkeley Science Bowl - main takeaway: CA high schoolers are SO. SMART. 😳

Feeling energized for science in the new year after a trip to the Hopland Research and Extension Center for the Soil SFA all-hands meeting. Beautiful field sites and reconnecting with old friends 🌳

I’m very excited to finally share the results of a passion project that has been on my mind for nearly a decade. You can find the pre-print below, but what follows is the saga of how this project came to be:

🔥New in Nature Communications 🔥 Fire-driven disruptions of global soil biochemical relationships Led by Guiyao Zhou & ManuDelgadoBaquerizo w/ Manuel Esteban Lucas Borja Eisenhauer Lab Tadeo Saez and many more IRNAS Sevilla #OpenAccess nature.com/articles/s4146…

My first noticeable Bay Area earthquake and my geologist heart is excited!

Excited to share our new Policy Analysis in the Journal of Science Policy & Governance (JSPG) Winter Issue! With Helen Silver, Megan Machmuller & Dr. Jane Zelikova, we explore how diversified ag systems impact soil carbon, soil health & yields. 🌱📈 Read it here 👉 sciencepolicyjournal.org/article_103812…

out this week in Genome Biology: genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Many of you gave me so much encouragement when I posted here earlier about my 10 year long passion project to make a microbial map of the ocean. Pinch me because I can't believe I get to update you that today that research was published in the journal SCIENCE! (AAAS)

📢 New paper! 📢 We have a lot of evidence that microbial communities are important for litter decomposition but we haven't evaluated those microbial community effects in ecosystem-scale models using empirical data. Now this work has! 1/n

Excited to share that I’ve joined the University of Southern Indiana USI Pott College as an Assistant Professor of Geology! Excited to be back in my home state and start exploring how Indiana ecosystems store and cycle carbon, + work to develop the environmental science major & curriculum at USI!

🌋 A rare eruption—and a timely reminder of East Africa’s dynamic geology. This week, the Hayli Gubbi volcano in Ethiopia erupted for the first time in nearly 12,000 years, sending ash into the sky above the Afar region. While eruptions like this capture global attention,

CURT CIGNETTI AND INDIANA LIFT THE BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHY 🏆 Indiana Football