Microbes adapt to the stress of climate change, experiencing evolutionary responses on similar time scales to ecological responses to stress due to their very large population sizes and relatively short generation time. To study microbial response to stress, we have worked to cultivate soil bacteria from a site near the Prospect Hill and SWaN long-term warming experiments. By isolating, co-culturing, and sequencing additional dominant soil microbes from the Harvard Forest, our research aims to link meta-omic sequence data with microbial physiology, and to incorporate this data into a series of microbially-explicit carbon models that integrate evolutionary adaptation into long-term projections of soil carbon and ecosystem function.