Hope all is OK and you can treat yourself to a bit of Lake Tahoe soon, until then...

Via chronosequence of fire impacted sites along HWY50 CA we investigated recovery of soil microbes 4-30y after fire. Soil microbes are important to post-fire forest as they regulate essential nutrients, form symbioses with plants.

Join us tomorrow, Aug 3, 2021 2:30 – 3:30 PM PST to discuss microbes & biogeochemistry through the whole soil profile. @ESASoilEcology @ESAMicrobe @ESAbiogeosci #ESA2021 panelists: @rmackelprang @ChrisInKnox @dawsonfairbanks @nicholascdove ➡️ cdmcd.co/Z4DLYb

2 days to #ESA2021 but talks are online already ➡️ cdmcd.co/Z4DLYb Join us Tue, Aug 3, 2021 2:30 – 3:30 PM PST to discuss microbes & biogeochemistry through the whole soil profile. @ESASoilEcology @ESAMicrobe @ESAbiogeosci

Postdoc & research associate positions in my lab, join us @BerkeleyLab @eesalbnl while we unlock the mysteries of Arctic soil & permafrost microbes Postdoc: m.rfer.us/LBLVgl40T RA: m.rfer.us/LBL3Nn40S

#ESA2021 is just around the corner. Join us to dig into connections between microbial communities and global biogeochemistry through the whole soil profile. @ESASoilEcology @ESAMicrobe @ESAbiogeosci Talks ➡️ cdmcd.co/Z4DLYb Tue, Aug 3, 2021 2:30 – 3:30 PM PST

We looked at changes in genes and metagenome assembled genomes (MAGs) in response to warming: some in top soils & none significant in deep soils (7/8)

Deeper soils had a different response: there were no apparent changes in their make up (tied to warming), they would favor respiration over growth & were not immediately responding to the changes in carbon and nutrient availability (6/8)

We sampled the whole soil profile (warming for 4.5 yrs at the time): surface-to-deep soils and made a series of process measurements in laboratory incubations with different carbon and nutrient additions to look for resource limitations in microbes (4/8)

@nicholascdove was awarded @doescience #SCGSR fellowship, and together we set out to study soil microbes and their response to warming in the beautiful Blodgett Forest, CA - experiment established by @eesalbnl TES SFA team tes.lbl.gov/ warming soils +4°C ambient (3/8)

Happy #WorldMicrobiomeDay 2020. One of my favorite microbiomes: Fecal bacteria by Anton Akkermans

Yerba Buena bush #fire smoke looks really thick from East Bay

"Let the carbon stay where it belongs, deep down in the ground" @eesalbnl @BerkeleyLab #LabSLAM2019

Getting ready from Berkeley Lab Research SLAM. Good luck Megan and Pat!!!