Diana Northup
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Diana Eleanor Northup | |
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| Alma mater | University of New Mexico West Virginia University University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
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| Institutions | University of New Mexico |
| Thesis | Geomicrobiology of caves (2002) |
Diana E. Northup is an American microbiologist, speleologist, ecologist, Visiting Professor of Biology, and Professor Emerita of Library Sciences with the University of New Mexico. Her research focuses on the microbial ecology of caves around the world. Dr. Northup is a Fellow of the National Speleological Society and the Cave Research Foundation. She wrote the Wiley textbook Microbial Ecology.[1] She was awarded the National Speleological Society Science Prize in 2013.[2]
Northup was an undergraduate student at West Virginia University, where she studied political science. She moved to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for graduate studies, where she earned a Master's of Library Science in 1972. Northup moved to the University of New Mexico, where she earned a Master's degree in biology in 1988. She remained at the University of New Mexico for her doctoral research, where she studied the geomicrobiology of caves.[3][page needed]
