A wild looking Paleudalf*******

Wild Paledualf here in Central Virginia! The soil was terraced for agriculture by enslaved individuals in the late 1700s. The dipping red Bt and yellow BC follows the original topography while the new Ochric epipedon follows the new leveled surface.
#soil #legacyeffects

Dr. Justin Mathias at WVU is looking for a postdoc! Flexible topic focused on wildfire impact forest carbon or nitrogen cycling. Dr. Mathias is awesome!
See details here:
wvu.taleo.net/careersectio...

Charley Kelly at West Virginia University is looking for a soil science PhD student! Morgantown is a pretty cool college town to be in, a gem of the mountains!
www.davis.wvu.edu/faculty-staf...

The Massachusetts geological survey is looking for a forest soil postdoc! You'll be working with the awesome @brian-yellen.bsky.social
websites.umass.edu/byellen/fore...

Great news with SSSA on the election results, thank you everyone for voting! I look forward to serving as the Forest, range, and wildlands division chair elect :)

www.sciencesocieties.org/publications...

Two more days left for Soil Science Society of America elections! Don't forget to vote!
www.soils.org/elections
If you're in the forest, range, and wildlands division, vote for me :)

Resolution of the University of Virginia #UVA Faculty Senate in Defense of Academic Freedom, Institutional Integrity, and the Principles of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

facultysenate.virginia.edu/resolution-u...

What happens when lithium batteries ignite a fire in a scrap metal yard? Not looking good for the local community but there are steps to help reduce exposure!
whyy.org/articles/emr...

Two cool post-doc positions available at Umeå Uni to work on David Wardle's unique long-term experiments on lake islands in N-Sweden! One position focuses on microbial communities, the other on above-belowground linkages. Please, share! 🧬🦠🌲🍂

www.umu.se/en/work-with...

www.umu.se/en/work-with...

PROP - PR Over Policy.

Don't confuse them.

He is flooding the zone. He knows that media will cover everything he does. Getting people upset. Which helps give him more coverage of the upset people. All just talking about him.

Dems need to be strategic.

"All review panels, new awards, and all payments of funds under open awards will be paused as the agency conducts the required reviews and analysis."

NSF statement on the impact of Trump administration executive orders.
new.nsf.gov/executive-or...

With some much terrible news, I want to share something positive. This is a spodosol my students made for our soils class back @dartmouthears.bsky.social featuring O-reo horizon, whipped cream E horizon, pudding Bhs and B horizon, and graham cracker glacial till.

For those you didn't see, PhD student Alexandrea Rice published her first study from her work in New Hampshire and Vermont in Geoderma!
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Great to be here and share soil and biogeochemistry related things! #soil #biogeochemistry #not_on_X