texascavers Digest 11 Dec 2013 16:40:55 -0000 Issue 1896
texascavers Digest 11 Dec 2013 16:40:55 - Issue 1896 Topics (messages 23147 through 23152): Re: [SWR] Jewel Cave 23147 by: Mark Minton Jewel Cave 23148 by: dirtdoc.comcast.net Link to NSS Bookstore Holiday Greetings 23149 by: Jacqueline Thomas CBSP December Project This Weekend 23150 by: Kris Pena Google Street View related 23151 by: David Re: 2013 Conservation Activities Needed 23152 by: Geary Schindel Administrivia: To subscribe to the digest, e-mail: texascavers-digest-subscr...@texascavers.com To unsubscribe from the digest, e-mail: texascavers-digest-unsubscr...@texascavers.com To post to the list, e-mail: texascavers@texascavers.com -- ---BeginMessage--- Nice article, but the author isn't very good at math: Austin, 29, and the team, found the first of 2,047 new feet of unexplored cave passage � over two-thirds of a mile. 2047 feet is less than half a mile! Mark On Sun, December 8, 2013 11:45 am, Lee H. Skinner wrote: If you have trouble with Dwight's link, try this one: http://tinyurl.com/nzbft8c -Lee Jewel Cave A rather nice article on Jewel Cave today (Sunday 8 Dec 2013) in the Rapid City Journal. http://web.mail.comcast.net/service/home/~/jewel%20cave%20article%20-%20rc%20journal%20dec%208%202013.pdf?auth=coloc=en_USid=640314part=2 DirtDoc ---End Message--- ---BeginMessage--- Most of the readers aren't either -- (I wonder if their grammar is as good as mine?) DirtDoc - Original Message - From: Mark Minton mmin...@caver.net To: s...@caver.net, texascavers@texascavers.com Sent: Sunday, December 8, 2013 11:03:54 AM Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Re: [SWR] Jewel Cave Nice article, but the author isn't very good at math: ---End Message--- ---BeginMessage--- All, The flyer from the NSS Bookstore is now on the TSA Homepage: http://www.cavetexas.org/ Click on the thumbnail for a larger image. Below the thumbnail is a link to the NSS Bookstore. Butch Fralia very kindly set this up so I wouldn't have to send it out on the remailer. Thanks, Butch! Jacqui ---End Message--- ---BeginMessage--- The next Colorado Bends State Park Project is this weekend. There's no better place to spend a cold Saturday than below ground! Most cavers show up Friday evening and camp out. All survey teams will be organized and sent out of camp by 9:30 a.m. Saturday morning. Camping is again available on Saturday evening with the possibility of more caving on Sunday morning. If you have your own Garmin GPS, please bring it so that you have an easier time finding the caves. For more information check out the project info sheethttp://www.cavetexas.org/PDF/CBSP/TSA_CBSP_project_info_sheet%202013.pdf or the schedule on the TSA calendar http://cavetexas.org/calendar/index.php. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions. Kris Peña and Will Quast TSA-CBSP Project Coordinators ---End Message--- ---BeginMessage--- I am sure this is old news, but I thought I would post it for those in Texas that don't have time to follow everything on the web. You can now drive thru the town of Bustamante ( on the main road only ) up to the entrance of the canyon virtually on the internet, using Google Maps. https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Bustamante,+Nuevo+Leon,+Mexicohl=enie=UTF8ll=26.533251,-100.52516spn=0.050298,0.077162sll=31.168934,-100.076842sspn=12.298661,19.753418oq=Bustamante+Nuet=hhnear=Bustamante,+Nuevo+Le%C3%B3n,+Mexicoz=14layer=ccbll=26.534663,-100.528917panoid=4KXfVF0FB-65ETsPCkZP1wcbp=12,292.12,,1,0.05 On a related note, it will also let you drive through nearly every road of the border towns, except inside of restricted areas like Boystown. ( I haven't heard of any cavers going there in 20 years ) In the fall of 84, I accompanied 5 other inexperienced Aggie cavers to Bustamante. All the knowledge amongst us that we had about Mexico was a crude hand-drawn map in a Texas Caver issue, of the border-town of Nuevo Laredo. Texas cavers today have access to a wealth of information on how to plan their road-trip into Mexico, and additional border-crossings, and better gasoline, than we had.Yet when was the last organized trip to Grutas del Precipico or Minas Viejas by cavers from Texas ? David Locklear ---End Message--- ---BeginMessage--- 2013 Conservation Activities Needed The NSS needs your input. Each year the NSS must file an application with the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) in order to qualify to be listed in the CFC donation database. The hardest part of the application is to document the nationwide NSS Conservation activities. Please take just two or three minutes and send Scott Fee (scottfee at bellsouth dot net) an email that includes the following: 1) State the activity took place 2) Closest City or the County 3) 2013 Date (Prefer month, day and year) 4) Very Brief description. Example: California,
[SWR] 6th International Workshop on Ice Caves: Call for Papers
Dear Friends, The 6th International Workshop on Ice Caves (IWIC-VI) is coming to Idaho Falls, Idaho, USA, on 17-22 August 2014 and I'm pleased to announce our Call for Papers! This will be the first IWIC outside of Europe and an excellent opportunity for North American ice scientists to attend. We welcome papers on any topic involving cave ice. Major themes include: * Cave glaciology and ice dynamics * Cave meteorology and climatology * Cryo-mineralogy and cryo-crystallography * Paleoclimatology and global change * Chemistry and geochemistry of ice caves * Ice cave management and technology * Glacier caves Please note that there is no separate abstract submission procedure. We encourage submission of full manuscripts but will accept extended abstracts for publication in the conference proceedings volume. The deadline for submission of all manuscripts and extended abstracts is 14 April, 2014. For more information on the conference, visit http://www.iwic-vi.org/index.html. Also, look for the announcement on the opening of registration for IWIC-VI, which will to start soon. IWIC is a series of conferences devoted entirely to ice cave studies, where international experts discuss ongoing research efforts and promote global cooperation in ice cave science and management. IWIC is a conference of the Glacier, Firn, and Ice Caves Commission of the International Union of Speleology, and IWIC-VI is being hosted by the National Cave and Karst Research Institute of the USA. On behalf of the IWIC-VI Organizing Committee, we look forward to receiving your papers and meeting you in Idaho Falls in August 2014. Please forward or post this message to anyone who may be interested. Thank you. George George Veni, Ph.D. Executive Director National Cave and Karst Research Institute 400-1 Cascades Avenue Carlsbad, New Mexico 88220-6215 USA Office: 575-887-5517 Mobile: 210-863-5919 Fax: 575-887-5523 gv...@nckri.org www.nckri.org ___ SWR mailing list s...@caver.net http://lists.caver.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swr ___ This list is provided free as a courtesy of CAVERNET
Re: [Texascavers] 6th International Workshop on Ice Caves: Call for Papers
COOL!! I checked out the Web site and am very impressed by the layout and style and ease of use. Upon reading the fine print, I learned the Web site was created and maintained by The Texas Caver editor, Jill Orr. EXCELLENT JOB, JILL! As George mentioned, this is the first time this workshop will be held in the US, and for good reason. I am sure it will be a long time before it comes back to the US. Take advantage. There are opportunities for ice caving, and Idaho is beautiful in August, when Texas is blazing hot! Thanks for the heads up George, and great job getting NCKRI as the US sponsor. No wonder you never sleep. You are too busy partnering with other orgs to bring us excellent cave information. julia -Original Message- From: George Veni gv...@nckri.org To: New Mexico Cavers s...@caver.net; TexasCavers. com Texascavers@texascavers.com Sent: Wed, Dec 11, 2013 4:59 pm Subject: [Texascavers] 6th International Workshop on Ice Caves: Call for Papers Dear Friends, The 6th International Workshop on Ice Caves (IWIC-VI) is coming to Idaho Falls, Idaho, USA, on 17-22 August 2014 and I’m pleased to announce our Call for Papers! This will be the first IWIC outside of Europe and an excellent opportunity for North American ice scientists to attend. We welcome papers on any topic involving cave ice. Major themes include: ·Cave glaciology and ice dynamics ·Cave meteorology and climatology ·Cryo-mineralogy and cryo-crystallography ·Paleoclimatology and global change ·Chemistry and geochemistry of ice caves ·Ice cave management and technology ·Glacier caves Please note that there is no separate abstract submission procedure. We encourage submission of full manuscripts but will accept extended abstracts for publication in the conference proceedings volume. The deadline for submission of all manuscripts and extended abstracts is 14 April, 2014. For more information on the conference, visithttp://www.iwic-vi.org/index.html. Also, look for the announcement on the opening of registration for IWIC-VI, which will to start soon. IWIC is a series of conferences devoted entirely to ice cave studies, where international experts discuss ongoing research efforts and promote global cooperation in ice cave science and management. IWIC is a conference of the Glacier, Firn, and Ice Caves Commission of the International Union of Speleology, and IWIC-VI is being hosted by the National Cave and Karst Research Institute of the USA. On behalf of the IWIC-VI Organizing Committee, we look forward to receiving your papers and meeting you in Idaho Falls in August 2014. Please forward or post this message to anyone who may be interested. Thank you. George George Veni, Ph.D. Executive Director National Cave and Karst Research Institute 400-1 Cascades Avenue Carlsbad, New Mexico 88220-6215 USA Office: 575-887-5517 Mobile: 210-863-5919 Fax: 575-887-5523 gv...@nckri.org www.nckri.org
[SWR] Karst geoscience post-doctoral grant
Dear Friends, Below is a last minute announcement of a karst geoscience post-doctoral grant from the Karst Research Institute in Slovenia. Notice the last paragraph. If you are interested, you must contact the Institute at the address below by 15 December 2013. I know a number of people who previously received and greatly benefited from these grants. I encourage anyone interested to apply. Please share or post this message with anyone you think may be interested. Thank you, George - Dear friends and colleagues, This is a last minute call. Please respond if interested, or distribute it to potentially interested candidates. Zaradi zaščite zasebnosti je prikaz slik v sporočilu onemogočen. Prikaži slikehttp://pp.zrc-sazu.si/?_task=mail_action=show_uid=12609_mbox=INBOX#loadimages#loadimages Karst Research Institute at ZRC SAZU, Postojna, Slovenia (http://izrk.zrc-sazu.si/en/predstavitev#v) is searching a candidate for an AXA postdoctoral grant. The Institute has been selected as an eligible institution by AXA Research Fund. We offer stimulating environment, field sites of classical karst, tutorship and related research infrastructure. Post-Doctoral project must be related to the topic of Environmental risk (climate change, from glacier retreat to sea-level rise; natural hazards, from earth hazards to atmospheric and space-weather phenomena; human-driven environmental changes such as urban pollution, nanotechnologies or pesticide exposure). The candidate must comply with the following conditions: - The candidate must have defended her/his Ph.D. thesis in sciences related to karst studies (geology, hydrology, geomorphology, speleothem science, karst biology or microbiology, and similar) before the beginning of the Post- Doctoral grant. - Less than 5 years since awarding of first Ph.D. (extensions to this period may be allowed in case of eligible career breaks which must be properly documented). - The candidate has to demonstrate excellence in research. We need to report a name of one candidate to the AXA Research Fund by December 16th, 2013. The first round of selection is based on the candidate's outline proposal that has to be submitted by January 9th, 2014. Pre-selected candidates will be then invited to submit a full proposal by March 13th, 2014. The final selection will be announced on June 10th, 2014. Once selected, candidates have up to 12 months after the announcement of the campaign results to start their Post Doc research (i.e., to administratively register within their Host Institution). http://www.axa-research.org/post-doctoral-fellowships Interested candidates are invited to contact us and send us a letter of interest, short CV and possible research topic. Please send an e-mail with subject AXE-Fellowship to i...@zrc-sazu.simailto:i...@zrc-sazu.si by December 15th, 2013. George Veni, Ph.D. Executive Director National Cave and Karst Research Institute 400-1 Cascades Avenue Carlsbad, New Mexico 88220-6215 USA Office: 575-887-5517 Mobile: 210-863-5919 Fax: 575-887-5523 gv...@nckri.orgmailto:gv...@nckri.org www.nckri.orghttp://www.nckri.org ___ SWR mailing list s...@caver.net http://lists.caver.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swr ___ This list is provided free as a courtesy of CAVERNET
[Texascavers] Jacob's Well
The Houston Chronicle web-site published an article today that sounded like it was written by a middle-schooler making their first book report on their swimming trip to Jacob's Well. Describing the geology of the cave, it stated, the well was formed as part of an underground aquaflow system. The article came across as an interview with a diver, Don Dibble, who seemed to be familiar with only part of the cave. ( I presume this is the same person that owns The Dive Shop in San Marcos. ) The article read like an invitation for thrill-seekers to come out and swim in the cave and free dive down to the gate.Meaning there wasn't any information about conservation or cavers related to the article. There was no mention of where the water comes from, or where it goes, or the critters that live in the water. The article was about cave-diving, yet not a single photo or video attached to the article was about cave-diving. There was no map or sketch explaining to the a reader ( who you have to presume is aimed at people unfamiliar with underwater caves ) as to what the author means by one of the longest underwater systems in Texas. The Houston Chronicle has become a laughing stock of journalism and an embarassment to southeast Texas. I have given up hope of ever finding anything credible in its articles.. I have also become very disgruntled with the way the media overall is behaving.I am officially boycotting Time Magazine. For what it is worth, the AMCS Activies Newsletter is one of the best things to read on the planet. And the NSS News, is also high on my list of favorite things to read. I wish I had more spare time to enjoy them. David Locklear Ref: http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/One-of-the-world-s-most-dangerous-dive-sites-is-5055541.php?cmpid=hpfc#photo-5585236 - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
Re: [Texascavers] Jacob's Well
Jacob's Well. Ah,yes. To see what is beyond the gate, you should read Jacob's Well by Stephen Harrigan . Those cavers that I hired to work on the Texas Natural Areas Survey (which helped get Devil's Sinkhole, the Lower Canyons, Mt. Livermore, Devil's River, Big Bend Ranch State Park, Enchanted Rock, and other places set aside in the Public Domain) will recognize slightly-disguised cavers and their colleagues from the70s. Not only is Dwight Deal the heroic (although flawed) model for the geologist, you can recognize parts of Ronnie Fieseler, Tom Byrd, and Ron Ralph, Gary Moore, and certainly remember the Lady Archaeologist who did field work in the nude. DirtDoc
[Texascavers] FW: 2013 Conservation Activities Needed
2013 Conservation Activities Needed The NSS needs your input. Each year the NSS must file an application with the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) in order to qualify to be listed in the CFC donation database. The hardest part of the application is to document the nationwide NSS Conservation activities. Please take just two or three minutes and send Scott Fee (scottfee at bellsouth dot net) an email that includes the following: 1) State the activity took place 2) Closest City or the County 3) 2013 Date (Prefer month, day and year) 4) Very Brief description. Example: California, Orange County, May to July 2012: Over 20 members removed dozens of large trash bags of litter and rusting metal from cave, sinkhole, river, stream, or highway. Ideally, please include how many volunteers and what you did. Any statistics like number of bags, hours spent, truckloads of debris, etc. are a welcome addition. That is it! Shouldn't take two minutes to convey where, when, and what! This will help the NSS Document caver conservation activities throughout 2012 in the USA! Established in 1961, the CFC is the largest workplace charity campaign in the country and the only campaign authorized to solicit and collect contributions from federal employees in the workplace. Through this effort, nearly four million federal employees and military personnel are able to contribute to the organizations of their choice during the annual charity drive, which runs from September 1 through December 15. Please distribute this in any caver related forum. attachment: winmail.dat- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
