EDUCATION
1993 B.Sc. (1st Class Hons.) Appl. Biol. Sciences, Uni. West of England.
1997 Ph.D. Microbiology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
1997 - 1999 Instructor, Dept. of Surgery, Uni. of Colorado HSC.
1999 - 2002 Research Associate, Dept. MCDB, Uni. of Colorado, Boulder.
2002 - 2003 Research Assistant Microbiologist, University of California, Davis.
2003 - 2008 Assistant Professor, Northern Kentucky University (NKU).
2003 - 2010 Ashland Endowed Professor of Integrative Science, NKU.
2008 - 2010 Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, NKU.
2010 - Pres Associate Professor, Department of Biology, UAkron.
2011 - Pres Associate Professor, Department of Geology and Environ Sci, UAkron.
OTHER APPOINTMENTS
2000-2006 Director of the National Speleological Society.
2005-2007 Member of the Advisory Board, Journal of Cave and Karst Studies
2006-2012 Member, Committee on the Status of Women in Microbiology,
2007-2013 Member, Communications Committee, American Society for Microbiology.
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AWARDS
2000 Fellow, National Speleological Society
2006 Certificate of Appreciation, National Speleological Society.
2007 Forest Supervisor’s Honor Award, Hoosier National Forest.
2009 Popular Science, Top Ten Best Courses in the US
2009 Cincy Magazines ‘Most Interesting People’
2010 - 11 PopSci's Awesome College-Lab Ranking - 4th (Popular Science Magazine)
CURRENT GRANT SUPPORT
National Park Service Microbial Diversity of the Subterranean Aquifer at Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota. 09/01/08 - 12/31/11.
NIH R15 AREA Program. Microbial metabolic mutualism in starved environments. 02/01/2008 – 01/31/2011. (NIH R15GM079775).
NSF EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Initiative (RII) (Co-PI), Kentucky Infrastructure in Ecological Genomics (KIEG). 10/01/2008 - 09/31/2013. (NSF #0814194).
NSF MRI-R2: Acquisition of an Agilent 7890A Gas Chromatograph for Northern Kentucky University. 01/01/10 - 12/31/12.
USFWS White Nose Syndrome Research Program. The Propagation and Decontamination of White-nose Syndrome (WNS) in the Environment. 10/1/09 - 09/31/11.
USFWS Bat White-Nose Syndrome Research. PI Natural History of Geomyces in Cave Environments: Phylogeny, Ecosystem Activities, Natural and Anthropomorphic Transport. 10/01/10 - 09/30/12.
INVITED LECTURES (SELECTED)
Astrobio 2010. "Dark Life: How Life Underground Can Point to Life in the Stars." CEPAL, Santiago, Chile. January 15,
2010 White-Nose Syndrome Symposium. "WNS: Bugs, Caves and Decon." Pittsburg, PA, May 25-27, 2010.
Darwin Keynote Speaker Series: The Christian Gram Speaker. "Amazing Caves: Amazing Microbes." Indiana State University, Terra Haute, IN. February 2, 2010.
Regional Microbiology Educators 6th Annual Student Research Symposium. "Living on the Edge: The Geomicrobiology of Cave Environments." Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania. July 16, 2009.
World Science Festival. "Cool Jobs." Kimmel Center, NYU, New York, NY. June 12, 2009.
Thompson Rivers University, Biology Seminar Series 'Dark Life: The Geomicrobiology of Cave Environments.' Thompson Rivers, BC, Canada, March 19, 2009
Wuhan Geobiology Symposium. "The Geomicrobiology of Cave Environments," Wuhan University for Geosciences, Wuhan, People's Republic of China. October 13-16, 2008.
Northeast Association for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Disease. Keynote Lecture “Amazing Caves, Amazing Microbes”, Springfield, MA. June 18th 2007.
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Planetary Protection Group. “Dark Life: Can Life Underground Point to Life in the Stars”, Pasadena, CA. February 9th 2007.
Rochester Institute for Technology, College of Science Distinguished Speaker Series. ‘From Cave Dwellers to Astrobiology: How Life Underground Can Point to Life in the Stars’, February 9th 2006.
FEATURED ARTICLES
‘The Desperate Battle Against Killer Bat Plague’ Wired Magazine, December 2010.
‘Scientific Community Unites to Save Bats’, Newsworks and WHYY, December 2010.
‘The Race to Save The Bats’, Popular Mechanics, November 2010.
'Caving for a Cure' Cincinnati Magazine, September, 2010.
Jackson, D.M. Extreme Scientists: Exploring Nature's Mysteries from Perilous Places (Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, ISBN-10 0618777067, May 2009).
'NKU Prof Key to Effort to Save Bats' Cincinnati Enquirer, December 12, 2009.
'Underground Adventures' by Erinn Banting. Scholastic Stepping Up 7-8, The Literary Place, 2009.
'So you want to... (Cool Jobs in Science)' Popular Science, p. 44-45. September 2009.
'Der Kosmos Der Anderen' by Lars Abromeit. Geo Magazine (in German), p 103-130. March 3, 2009.
‘Cave Crawler’ by Brendan Borrell. The Scientist. 22(60): 21-22. June 2008.
‘Flowing Stone: The Science of Cave Formations’, Science News, 169(17): 266-268. April 29th, 2006.
The Dark Side of Science: Hazel’s Depth Wish, Yes Magazine. January/February 2006.
How to Save the World: Our 25 Action Heroes Show You What It Takes, Outside Magazine. December 2005, p.102.
Hellbound Germ Collector, National Geographic Adventure Magazine. October 2005, p.73.
Mavericks: Cave Woman, Forbes Magazine. April 11th 2005, p. 64-66.
Deep Into Her Work. Sports Illustrated. September 8th 2003. p. A16-A23.
Cave woman: Hazel Barton explores some of the most forbidding caves on Earth in her hunt for "extremophiles". Current Science, March 22, 2002
Hazel Barton: British Microbiologist and Speleologist. Biography Today: Scientists and Inventors Series. 2002 v6, p. 9-23
Weird and Wild: Caving In. National Geographic World. March 2001.
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