Congratulations to Dr. Holly Roth for successfully defending her PhD defense today. Holly’s research on fire impacts on soil biogeochemistry has changed the way we think about nitrogen cycling in burnt watersheds. ⁦Thx to collaborators @mj_wilkins⁩ ⁦Dr. Amelia Nelson⁩

Article: Complex polymeric compounds, including pyrogenic carbon, in subsoils can be lost rapidly under warming GWiesenberg @MWISchmidt nature.com/articles/s4156…

Abundant water. Bright sun. #SierraNevada

Don't forget to leave milk and cookies out for Earth tonight.

So fun speaking at and attending RMGS this past weekend! Great community - thanks to the organizers Rocky Mountain Geobiology Symposium 2024 @wilkinslab @mj_wilkins Julie Fowler, M.S.

Fire and Ice! Contributed talks this afternoon about pile burns as a proxy for severe wildfires Julie Fowler, M.S. and methanotrophic metabolism in the permafrost Jared Ellenbogen!

We have immediate opening for Postdoctoral researcher with expertise in comparative metagenomic computational analyses. We are interested in team members who can contribute to projects in the soil, plant, air Microbiome. Proficiency in Unix or Python or R. DM for more information

Check out our newest work, recently published in Frontiers in Communication!

When the wildfire team asks you to post "some prevention messaging" because it's going to be a hot, dry weekend

No one: Ecologists: “Well, it really depends on scale.”

Excited to share Ikaia's first author paper! Thanks to all who made it possible! Mikayla A. Borton Mike Shaffer Josué Rodríguez-Ramos 🇵🇷 @rmfofco Rebecca Daly @katherinekokki1 Linnea Kop Lindsey Solden Anice Sabag-Daigle Brian Ahmer and Kelly Wrighton NIH Funding microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Check out our new paper in ES&T, headed by Jacob VanderRoest! Congratulations, Jacob!

!!! PhD chapter #2 is now out in The ISME Journal! This study uses a unique multidecadal chronosequence of burn piles to address whether the soil microbiome is resilient during a burning-induced aboveground ecosystem shift (1/3) academic.oup.com/ismej/article/…

🚨New Review! Molecular insights and impacts of wildfire-induced soil chemical changes The Borch Lab et al. discuss the transformations & biogeochemical interactions of soil organic matter and metals induced by wildfires🔥 Free for two weeks, download now! nature.com/articles/s4301…

New post-wildfire soil micro paper out, led by the great Julie Fowler, M.S.!!! Check it out here ⬇️

Check out our newest work! 🔥

My 3rd PhD chapter with @wilkinslab is now out in ISME Communications! We use an 11 year wildfire burn scar chronosequence in CO/WY to discern whether different microbial life history strategies help taxa thrive/survive in burned soils 🦠🔥 academic.oup.com/ismecommun/art…