Kathryn M. Docherty

[Kathryn M. Docherty @DrDocherty]

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

[Kathryn M. Docherty @DrDocherty]

Here is the ad in The Chronicle: https://t.co/IKECOD66oH

[Kathryn M. Docherty @DrDocherty]

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: https://t.co/ALsme7ZV5a

[Kathryn M. Docherty @DrDocherty]

We are hiring a postdoc to work on soil health and prairie restoration projects! Please spread the word. Position here: https://t.co/DpueRlPrGk
@BlackinSTEMEd @LatinxinSTEM @500womensci @WomenInSoilEco @BEcologists @ESALatAmCarib @ESASoilEcology @ESAMicrobe @soilecol @EsaSeeds

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@BlackinSTEMEd @LatinxinSTEM @500womensci @WomenInSoilEco

[The State News @thesnews]

This was our home. And it will never be the same.

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[Kathryn M. Docherty @DrDocherty]

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: https://t.co/42NEtFZwD2

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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.

[Kathryn M. Docherty @DrDocherty]

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.

[Kathryn M. Docherty @DrDocherty]

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

[Kathryn M. Docherty @DrDocherty]

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! https://t.co/sj2Uv6GPXN

[Kathryn M. Docherty @DrDocherty]

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. https://t.co/oq8capyGZy

[Kathryn M. Docherty @DrDocherty]

Great job to my collaborators @EcoAdkins and @JessicaRMiesel getting this paper out! https://t.co/MgEa49F59g In a nutshell: forest soil bacterial life history strategies and soil C pool kinetics are affected by wildfire and fire severity.

[Kathryn M. Docherty @DrDocherty]

*fun not fund

[Kathryn M. Docherty @DrDocherty]

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. 🌻🌻🌻🌻

[Kathryn M. Docherty @DrDocherty]

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

[Kathryn M. Docherty @DrDocherty]

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

[Kathryn M. Docherty @DrDocherty]

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

[Kathryn M. Docherty @DrDocherty]

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!

[Timothy Hoellein @HoelleinH2Olab]

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.