Miriam Kannan

Regents Professor

Miriam Kannan 

Contact Info

Office: SC-149
Lab: SC-161
Phone: (859) 572-5522; 572--6649 (lab)
E-mail: kannan@nku.edu
Web Page: www.nku.edu/~kannan

Education

  • B.A., 1973, Rider College
  • M.A., 1975, Ph.D., 1979, Ohio State University

Areas of Concentration:

  • Limnology
  • Microbiology
  • Phycology

Research Interests:

  • Paleolimnology: Reconstructing Environmental Histories using diatoms from lake cores
  • Aquatic Ecology: Using algae, including diatoms, as water quality indicators
  • Ecology of the Ohio River Basin
  • Diatom applications to nanotechnology and alternative energy sources.