Diana Northup, librarian, microbiologist and associate in the university’s Museum of Southwestern Biology, will be featured the Nova episode “The Mysterious Life of Caves,” on Tuesday, Sept. 6 at 8 p.m. and again on Friday, Sept. 9 at 9 p.m. on KNME-TV Channel 5.
New Mexico’s Carlsbad and Lechuguilla Caverns are featured. Toxic caverns teeming with strange life forms spark a radical theory of how certain caves take shape.
For more on this episode, visit Nova’s website at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/caves/ or listen to Nova’s interview with Northup at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/caves/extremophiles.html.
Contact: Evy Todd, (505) 277-1218