Text Box: Principle Investigator - Dr. Barton

Text Box:   Dr. Hazel A. Barton, a British native, is currently the Ashland Endowed Professor of Integrative Science and an Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at Northern Kentucky University, where she coordinates an active undergraduate research laboratory and teaches medical microbiology.  Her research includes a National Institutes of Health funded study examining microbial adaptation to starvation using Salmonella as a model organism, and the interactions of microbial communities in starved cave environments, funded by the National Science Foundation EPSCoR Program and the Center for Integrated Natural Science and Mathematics.  Dr. Barton is also an avid cave explorer, past director of the National Speleological Society, the Quintana Roo Speleological Survey and an award winning cave cartographer. Her cave research has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Forbes, National Geographic Explorer, Outside Magazine, on NPR and BBC Radio, an Animal Planet special and in the IMAX movie Journey into Amazing Caves.  

Text Box: Television, radio and articles about Dr. Barton’s research

Text Box: The Amazing Caves: Exploration Science camp for traditionally under-represented students.

Text Box: A short history about how Dr. Barton came to carry out cave research.

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Text Box: A list of peer-reviewed publications, abstracts and other articles.

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