Interviews/Newspaper Articles/TV/Web Site Links
- Tweti, Mira. May, 2004. Cave Slime Sisters. Readers' Digest.
- Ivey, Catherine. February, 2004. Slime Sisters. Sally Ride Science
Club Newsletter.
- Niio, Genya. 2003. Filming a documentary in Cueva de las Sardinas for
the Japanese Broadcasting Company (NHK).
- Summer 2003. American Society for Microbiology. Microbe World.
Interview on the recovery of nitrogen cycle bacteria from the Cerro Grande
burned soils research project.
- May 2003. Jensen, Mari N. Report: Forest fires foster community
change in nitrogen-fixing bacteria. BioMedNet. One of six featured research
presentations from the first day of the American Society of Microbiology
annual meeting in Washington, D.C. on the BioMedNet site.
- Clay, Diane. 15 July 2003. Caves become labs in search for life; cavern
environment may parallel planets The Oklahoman.
- Super Science 2003. (kids' magazine published by Scholastic
Publishers.
- Snottites. 15 August 2003. American Association for the Advancement
of Science website audio story.
- Secret Life of Caves. BBC. 4 April 2003. A remake of the NOVA
episode.
- Hadington, Evan and Holt, Sarah. October 1, 2002. Mysterious life of
caves. NOVA.
- Hadington, Evan. October 2002. Subterranean Surprises.
Smithsonian.
33(7):68-74.
- Turner, Pamela. the Cave that Microbes Built. Fall 2002.
California Wild 55(4): .
- Parker-Stevens, Victoria. April 28, 2002. Researcher seeks out
Caverns creepy-crawlies. Carlsbad Current Argus.
- Bernat, Valerie. 2002. Cave Gunk. Wild Outdoor World (WOW)
6(1): 32-35
- Martin, Bob. February 2002. Channel 13 (KQRE). News piece on cave
conservation.
- Clark, Alice. Pioneer Productions, BBC. December 2001. Filming in
Cueva de Villa Luz, Tabasco, Mexico, for a fall 2002 program on the origin
of life.
- BBC. Fall 2001. ``Final Frontier''. Interview with Penny Boston, and
scenes of Boston, Spilde, and Northup doing research in Four Windows Cave,
El Malpais National Monument.
- Grossman, Dan. 2001. Astrobiology. DNA Files. National Public
Radio. Won the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, the Clarion
Award, and the American Institute of Biological Sciences Broadcast Award.
- Krajick, Kevin. 2001. Cave biologists unearth buried treasure.
Science 293(5539): 2378-2381.
- BBC. Fall 2001. "Final Frontier". Interview with Penny Boston, and
scenes of Boston, Spilde, and Northup doing research in Four Windows Cave,
El Malpais National Monument.
- Ryo. August 16-17, 2000. "Year 2000, Super Summer Adventure Series,
Amazing Underground". (hour-long documentary on caves). NHK Broadcasting
Company (Japan), produced by "FORTIES-NHK INFORMATION NETWORK".
- Racine, Marty. 2000. Life in a cave: trying to unlock the secrets of a
microbial world in Carlsbad Caverns. Houston Chronicle: Texas,
July 16, 2000: 8-13.
- Crane, Candace. 2000. Carlsbad Caverns National Park: Worlds of
wonder. Carlsbad, NM: Carlsbad Caverns Guadalupe Mountains Association.
55pp. Discusses research of various team members.
- Spilde, M.N. and Northup, D.E. 2000. Scanning electron micrograph appeared
on the cover of the Journal of Cave and Karst Studies, v. 62(1):cover.
- Getz, David. October 2000. Exploring the Cave of the Sulfur Eaters.
Muse Magazine 4(8):28-35.
- Gasek, Paul. May, 2000. Understanding caves. 1 hour documentary for
The Learning Channel. Interview with Penny Boston.
- Frederick, R.D. "Gus". March 2000. Mars Millennium Project: Life in Lava
Tubes. Mars Millennium Project: Life in Lave Tubes.
- David, Leonard. March 2000. Search for life takes two women to the
depths.
Space.com: People
- Mauro-Noon, Carol. 2000. Interview for a companion piece for the kids print
magazine that accompanies the Space.com website.
- BBC. February 2000. Mars exploration. Interview with Penny Boston.
- Zanes, Tom. January, 2000. Leave No Trace. 15 minute video produced
for the U.S. National Forest Service on low-impact caving; brief interview
with Northup.
- Achenbach, Joel. 2000. Life Beyond Earth. National Geographic.
v.197(1): 24-51. (Picture of Boston, Northup, and Spilde sampling in Villa Luz,
Tabasco, Mexico, and excerpts from interviews with Penny Boston.)
- Cole, Julia. October, 1999. Treasures in a pristine cave.
Geotimes, v.44(10):6-7.
- Belderson, Martin and Sid Perou. 1998-1999. NOVA episode on microbes
and caves. Filming with Northup in Villa Luz and Boston and Northup in
Lechuguilla Cave. Has not aired yet.
- Motion International Productions, Canada. Fall, 1999. Popular Mechanics
for Kids. Microbes in caves, a kid-hosted adventure with Penny
Boston.
- Gonzales, Carolyn. September 20, 1999. Northup caves for national
media. The University of New Mexico Campus News. v. 35(5):3.
- Taylor, Michael Ray. July 27, 1999. U.S. cave yields odd microbes.
Discovery Channel Online, Discovery News Brief
- Krulwich, Robert. Summer, 1999. ABC News Nightline Interview
with Penny Boston about life on other planets and extremophiles on Earth.
- Ferguson, Chaka. February 3, 1999. Cave Searched for Mars Clues. The
Columbian.
- Bauer, Paula. Winter,1998. Cave corrosion residues: Anybody home?
Canyons & Caves, no.11: 4-5.
- Dano, Mike. November 23, 1998. Mysterious organism eats cave walls,
vexes scientist. Daily Lobo, v. 103(64): 1,5.
- Chandler, David L. August 24, 1998. Cave dwellers. The Boston
Globe: C1, C3.
- Charles Petit, San Francisco Chronicle for story in U.S. News and
World Report, January 1998.
- Haddrill, Marilyn. December 21st, 1997. Light in the Darkness:
NM cave's `bugs' tease with insight. The Dallas Morning News: 56A.
- Fleck, John. October 27, 1996. Hunting N.M. clues to life on Mars.
Albuquerque Journal, A1,A16.
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