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Hazel Barton
British scientist
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Hazel A. Barton is an English born microbiologist, geologist and cave diving explorer, interested in extremophile microorganisms. She is a Loper Endowed Professor of Geological Sciences at the University of Alabama and has appeared in several documentaries.
Early life
Hazel Barton grew up in Bristol, England and first experienced caving through an Outward Bound course when she was 16, which was the beginning of her life-long involvement with caving.[2]
Career
She moved to the United States six years after she started caving as a hobby[3] and in the early 1990s studied for her PhD at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, in Boulder, Colorado undertaking research into drug resistant tuberculosis.[4] After graduating, she carried out postdoctoral research with Norman R.
Pace, who was also keen on caving. She became increasingly disinterested in medical microbiology and he encouraged her to cons