MTS37 - Hazel Barton - Cave Dwellers
Meet the Microbiologist
English - October 23, 2009 19:04 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsLife Sciences Science Natural Sciences Homepage Download IPFS Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Hazel Barton is the Ashland Professor of Integrative Science at Northern Kentucky. She explores some of the world's most remote caves to study the remarkable diversity of microbes that thrive in their dark rececesses. I spoke to Barton about how she first became captivated by these bizarre organisms, what it's like to do delicate microbiology when you're hip-deep in mud, and why she wants to explore caves on Mars in search of Martians.