Kathryn M. Docherty

I've moved the lab's social media over to Instagram. You can follow our lab updates there under docherty_microecolab.

Here is the ad in The Chronicle: jobs.chronicle.com/job/37725670/t…

WMU Department of Biological Sciences is hiring a tenure-track faculty member at the Assistant or Associate level. Please share! Applications can be submitted here: wmujobs.org/postings/2850

We are hiring a postdoc to work on soil health and prairie restoration projects! Please spread the word. Position here: kdochert8.wixsite.com/dochertylab/po… @BlackinSTEMEd @LatinxinSTEM @500womensci @WomenInSoilEco @BEcologists @ESALatAmCarib @ESASoilEcology @ESAMicrobe @soilecol @EsaSeeds

@BlackinSTEMEd @LatinxinSTEM @500womensci @WomenInSoilEco

This was our home. And it will never be the same. bit.ly/3xqToAP

Big congratulations to @e_badgerhanson who successfully defended her Masters and became a PhD candidate yesterday! Her work examines how prairie management choices influence soil microbial communities and carbon cycling. Her talk is here: wmich.mediasite.com/Mediasite/Play…

Third, congrats to @e_badgerhanson who received a @USDA SARE graduate student grant for this summer. Her work will expand our understanding of how restoration management choices affect soil microbial communities and carbon.

Second, I am honored to have received a Mid-Career Advancement award from @NSF! I'm spending this semester @UNH with @seritafrey's group, learning more about soil carbon dynamics and carbon use efficiency.

He has joined the team at Impact Compliance and Testing, an environmental consulting firm near Lansing, MI. We'll miss you @smith_christian!

I've been a bad PI and not kept up with our lab announcements feed. First, @smith_chr1stian defended his M.S. research "Urban biotic homogenization of airborne microbial communities on a continental scale". Congrats! wmich.mediasite.com/Mediasite/Play…

Congratulations! to @e_badgerhanson on her first publication, which reviews microbially focused restoration strategies in tallgrass prairies, with a focus on how this is both urgent and complicated in the face of climate change. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Great job to my collaborators @EcoAdkins and @JessicaRMiesel getting this paper out! doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2… In a nutshell: forest soil bacterial life history strategies and soil C pool kinetics are affected by wildfire and fire severity.

*fun not fund

Happy #EarthDay2022 ! The Docherty lab did a fund activity this week and made native seed bombs @BeeJoyfulShop Kalamazoo. Watch out for native plants coming up in places you might least expect them. 🌻🌻🌻🌻

One of my favorite quotes: "We must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future" - MLK Jr. There is always hope if you have the courage to look for it and the perseverance to create it. #MLKDay2022 #MLKDay

@UrbanH2O That sounds like International Space Station levels - was everyone cranky?

So...if the CO2 got up to 1100ppm in the 50 minutes of my 80-person class, how bad is that...? We're doing this 3x/week, masked, but not all vaxxed.

Anyone interested in soil ecology - check out this awesome Women in Soil Ecology panel on Feb 8!

Big congratulations to @WMUBios Docherty lab undergrad @MeganNippa, who defended her @LeeHonorsCol thesis today about how the late-successional plant white wild indigo influences soil bacterial communities. Great job Megan!

Are you an ecologist studying pollutants like plastics/trash & attending Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting (JASM) in May '22? Consider our session: 'Talking trash: The ecology of litter in freshwaters' 🗑️🌊 details below.