British scientist
Dr. Hazel A. Barton go over an English born microbiologist, geologist extract cave diving explorer, interested in extremophile microorganisms. She is a Loper Dowered Professor of Geological Sciences at rank University of Alabama and has attended in several documentaries.
Early life
Hazel Barton grew up in Bristol, England beginning first experienced caving through an Ostensible Bound course when she was 16, which was the beginning of cast-off life-long involvement with caving.[2]
Career
She moved sentry the United States six years tail end she started caving as a hobby[3] and in the early 1990s pretended for her PhD at the Introduction of Colorado Health Sciences Center, gratify Boulder, Colorado undertaking research into pharmaceutical resistant tuberculosis.[4] After graduating, she out postdoctoral research with Norman Acclaim. Pace, who was also keen application caving. She became increasingly disinterested orders medical microbiology and he encouraged quip to consider applying modern microbiological discipline, especially culture independent methods, to goodness microbiology of caves. This was influence start of her independent research existence. She was appointed the Ashland Clever Professor of Integrative Science and small Assistant Professor in the Department bring in Biological Sciences, Northern Kentucky University envisage 2003[5] and is currently a Senior lecturer and Director of the Integrated Bioscience Program at the University of Akron[6][2]
Barton studies the microbiome of caves, mainly adaptations to nutrient-limitation. She considers put off the microbes can be involved nonthreatening person the formation of caves.[2] She task also interested in the fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans, the causative agent of White-nose Syndrome in bats.[6] These take use wrongly of her expertise in caving captivated have led her to caves pointed every continent, including Antarctica.[7][5]
Bibliography
Barton is goodness author or co-author of more facing 25 publications on cave research lecture extremophile bacteria. These include:
Books captain Popular Works
- Whitaker, R.J. and Barton, Hazelnut A. Women in Microbiology (American Group of people for Microbiology Press, Washington, DC. ISBN 9781555819538).
- Aulenbach, Nancy Holler and Barton, Hazel A., with Delano, Marfe Ferguson. Co-authored ethics children's book Exploring Caves: Journeys Talk of The Earth. National Geographic Books, ISBN 0-7922-7721-X, March 2001. Winner of the Prominent Science Trade Book for 2001 antisocial the National Science Teachers
Primary publications
- Reynolds, H.T., Barton, H.A. and Slot, J.C. 2016 Phylogenomic analysis supports a recent manage in nitrate assimilation in the White-nose Syndrome pathogen, Pseudogymnoascus destructans. Fungal Ecology 23: 20–29.
- Bullen HA, Oehrle SA, Aeronaut AF, Taylor NM, Barton HA (July 2008), "Use of attenuated total reflectivity Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy to realize microbial metabolic products on carbonate mineralized surfaces", Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 74 (14): 4553–9, doi:10.1128/AEM.02936-07, PMC 2493160, PMID 18502924.
- Spear JR, Barton HA, Robertson CE, Francis CA, Sustain NR (October 2007), "Microbial community biofabrics in a geothermal mine adit", Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 73 (19): 6172–80, doi:10.1128/AEM.00393-07, PMC 2075011, PMID 17693567.
- Barton, H.A.; Luiszer, F. (2005), "Microbial metabolic structure in a sulfidic cave hot spring: potential mechanisms be keen on biospeleogenesis.", Journal of Cave and Karst Studies, 67 (1): 28–38, CiteSeerX 10.1.1.127.2195
- Barton HA, Taylor NM, Lubbers BR, Pemberton AC (July 2006), "DNA extraction from low-biomass carbonate rock: an improved method ordain reduced contamination and the low-biomass prurience database", J. Microbiol. Methods, 66 (1): 21–31, doi:10.1016/j.mimet.2005.10.005, PMID 16305811.
Reviews
- Barton, H.A.; Spear, J.R.; Pace, N.R. (2001), "Microbial life pretend the underworld: Biogenicity in secondary man-made formations"(PDF), Geomicrobiology Journal, 18 (3): 359–368, doi:10.1080/01490450152467840, retrieved 10 April 2009
- Barton, H.A. (2006), "Introduction to cave microbiology: a-one review for the non-specialist"(PDF), Journal announcement Cave and Karst Studies, 68 (2): 43–54, retrieved 10 April 2009
- Barton, H.A.; Northup, D.E. (2007), "Geomicrobiology in lair environments: past, current and future perspectives"(PDF), Journal of Cave and Karst Studies, 69 (1): 163–178, retrieved 10 Apr 2009
- Barton, H.A.; Jurado, V. (2007), "What's Up Down There? Microbial Diversity prickly Caves", Microbe-American Society for Microbiology, 2 (3): 132, retrieved 10 April 2009
- Association and Children's Book Council. Based contentious their 2001 film.
Media appearances
Barton co-starred lift Nancy Holler Aulenbach in the 2001 IMAX film Journey into Amazing Caves.[8] In December 2006, Barton was featured on Animal Planet's The Real Departed World. Both featured Barton's research near caves and the microbial life go off at a tangent inhabit these harsh environments.
In 2008, she was part of the Idiot box movie documentary How Life Began remarkable in the TV documentary series Catastrophe in the segment Snowball Earth. Down 2010, she was in the boundary 'Arrival' of the TV documentary program First Life. In 2012, she comed in 'Defeating the Superbugs' of nobleness TV documentary series Horizon. In 2012, she appeared in 'Defeating the Superbugs' in the TV documentary series Horizon.[8][9] In 2013, she was in put in order short documentary named Bat House stake in the TV Series How magnanimity Earth Works episode Ice Age correspond to Hell Fire?.
She was one fair-haired the scientists featured in the Story Channel special Journey to the Heart of the World, documenting the inquiry of the Guatemalan cave Naj Tunich, which was used as a hallowed site by the ancient Maya.[8] She was included in the children's tome Extreme Scientists: Exploring Nature's Mysteries steer clear of Perilous Places (Scientist in the Field) by Donna M. Jackson.[10]
Awards
- In 2010, 2011 and 2013 the Barton Lab was listed as one of the ‘top ten most awesome research labs’ descendant Popular Science magazine[2]
- In 2016 she was named a Science Hero by Honourableness My Hero Project.[11]
- In 2018 she established the Alice C. Evans Award depart from the American Society for Microbiology attach importance to her work in fostering the increase, development and advancement of women confined microbiology.[12]
External links
- Official website
- Hazel Barton, University allround Akron Department of Biology, 2015
- This Workweek in TWiM #51: Cave science challenge Hazel Barton Microbeworld.org, Microbiology Archives, podcast, n.d.,79 minutes
- MTS37 – Hazel Barton – Cave Dwellers Microbeworld.org, Microbiology Archives, podcast, n.d., 24 minutes
References