Diana Eleanor Northup | |
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| Alma mater | University of New Mexico West Virginia University University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| Scientific career | |
| 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][page needed] She was awarded the National Speleological Society Science Prize in 2013.[2]