texascavers Digest 11 Apr 2014 14:55:39 -0000 Issue 1961
texascavers Digest 11 Apr 2014 14:55:39 - Issue 1961 Topics (messages 23670 through 23675): DFW cavers! Anyone up for a beer tomorrow? 23670 by: Fofo Vulcanospeleology Symposum 23671 by: Mixon Bill Visual Arts Salon at TSA Spring Convention 23672 by: R D Milhollin Papers for International Workshop on Ice Caves due in 4 days! 23673 by: George Veni Colorado Bend Project This Weekend! 23674 by: Kris Pena Re: Participate in a cave conservation research study! Win a $100 gift card! 23675 by: Mixon Bill 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--- Hi! Well, I'll be in your beautiful city tomorrow, Thursday, and if anyone would like to meet for a beer in the evening let me know, you can reply to my email or call/text at 831-776-5385. Unfortunately I'm in town just for Thursday, leaving very early on Friday. Hope to see some of you tomorrow! - Fofo ---End Message--- ---BeginMessage--- I know several Texas cavers attended this thing. Perhaps they and you will enjoy this summary of the symposium by Tim Francis. -- Mixon The 16th Volcanospeleology Symposium of the UIS Commission on Volcanic Caves was held in The Galápagos Islands, 15th to 22nd March 2014 hosted by Dr. Theofilos Toulkeridis. This year’s conference was the most heavily attended conference in the Commissions history with around 80 delegates attending. The dramatic volcanic landscape of the islands combined with its unique fauna and flora, famously highlighted in Charles Darwin’s 1859 book “On the Origin of Species”, proved to be an irresistible draw. The Symposium, based at the Conference Centre of the Galápagos Islands National Park’s Service in Puerto Ayora, delivered a rich lecture programme and poster submissions. This formal programme was combined with field trips to a mix of above and below ground sites on Santa Cruz and Isabela Islands. This catered for the various interests of the delegates such as spelaeology, volcanology, mineralogy, entomology and palaeontology. Highlights included descending into the interior of an extinct volcano, Triple Volcáno; traversing the extensive lava fields of the Sierra Negra shield volcano; and visits to the lava tube complexes on Santa Cruz island. Post conference trips included both the touristic and the speleological, the latter being a tour of numerous limestone caves situated in the Amazonian lowlands of Ecuador. If you can't say something nice, come and sit by me. You may reply to the address this message came from, but for long-term use, save: Personal: bmi...@alumni.uchicago.edu AMCS: a...@amcs-pubs.org or sa...@amcs-pubs.org ---End Message--- ---BeginMessage--- Fellow cavers, the caving season has arrived. There are many trips happening in and around Texas, so here is a little extra incentive to take photos, draft maps and express artistically your impressions of the caves your are exploring: This year at the TSA Spring Convention we will combine the map salon and photo salons, holdovers from previous years, and introduce a fine arts category as well. The salons will be housed in a tent sited near the convention pavilion at Cave Without A Name, this year featuring 120v electricity. In order to assure the security of entries and any art exhibited but not submitted for judging the salon will be only open on Saturday, with setup around 12:00 noon and judging about 5:00 PM, coordinated with the speaker schedule. During that time there will be a docent present in the tent at all times. Exhibitors of maps and wall art are asked to submit their pieces matted, and we will place these onto heavy cardboard backings that will be suspended from the horizontal tent supports.In addition to the wall art, there will be a table provided for art items like sculpture, and any other items that don't fit usual classification. One of the goals of this competition is to encourage Texas cavers to compete at higher levels of competition, including the annual NSS Convention visual arts salons. This year the TCMA will sponsor an award category for best work featuring a conservancy cave. It is hoped that this will help raise the work of the TCMA in the consciousness of Texas cavers, and to identify innovative artwork that could be used by the TCMA in various efforts to accomplish its mission. There will be three basic categories to be judged: Photography, Fine Art, and Cartography. Ribbons will be awarded for categories with more than one entry. Judges will be needed for this event; professional and
[Texascavers] FW: [NSSwest] Participate in a cave conservation research study
Cavers - Speleo-climatology is a growing area of scientific research. Sarah Truebe is working to establish a set of best practices for future research projects. If you have a chance, please consider sharing your opinions on the subject. Thanks! Please feel free to share this with your grottos. Matt _ From: nssw...@yahoogroups.com [mailto:nssw...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Sarah Truebe Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 9:15 PM To: nssw...@yahoogroups.com Subject: [NSSwest] Participate in a cave conservation research study! Win a $100 gift card! [1 Attachment] [Attachment(s) from Sarah Truebe included below] Hello Western Region! I am a new transplant to California (moved from AZ in Jan), but I'm hoping all of my new neighbors will do me the honor of taking this survey as a part of my PhD research. I am working on my PhD in geosciences, and one of my studies is to evaluate the sampling of speleothems for past climate (paleoclimate) research. I am asking cavers, cave owners, cave managers, cave scientists, and anyone else that enjoys, explores, or studies caves to take the survey for my research (more details below the dotted line). Please take this survey and forward it widely amongst your caving contacts! Taking the survey allows you to enter into a drawing for one of seven $100 gift cards to Amazon or a cave gear website of your choice. The link is here: https://uarizona.co1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_6llZGoHoNyBTCsJ The survey will remain open until April 30, 2014. More details are below. Many thanks in advance for your time! Sincerely, Sarah NSS # 61563 = Speleothem Sampling Methods Survey https://uarizona.co1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_6llZGoHoNyBTCsJ Who should take this survey? This survey is for cavers, cave owners, cave managers, and cave scientists other than paleoclimate scientists to gather a variety of opinions about paleoclimate research and how it impacts caves. Paleoclimate scientists were surveyed earlier to produce a list of current research practices, which was used to build this survey. What is this survey about? Paleoclimate--or past climate--research uses the chemistry and mineralogy of speleothems to reconstruct past climate, temperature, rainfall, etc. Stalagmites are one of the best sources of this information, especially where other sources (like lakes, trees, ice cores, and ocean sediments) don't exist. Sampling stalagmites for this type of research requires looking along the growth axis, down the center of the speleothem. Generally, this means the stalagmite must be sliced open and measured down the middle. Many scientists are trying to minimize their impact on caves while doing this sampling, but as a community of cave stakeholders, we can do better. Taking this survey is the first step to initiating a community-wide discussion between paleoclimate scientists and other cave stakeholders, including recreational cavers, cave managers, cave owners, and other cave scientists. The goal of this discussion is to emerge with a set of current best practice guidelines for scientists and managers to be able to pursue valuable past climate information while conserving valuable cave resources. Your participation in this survey is voluntary. You may stop at any time. This survey is anonymous. There are no risks to participating in this survey. The survey will take from 30-60 minutes. At the end, you will be asked if you would like to enter your contact information for a drawing for one of seven $100 gift cards to a vendor of your choice. Your contact information is stored separately from your survey responses. For ease of use, please take the survey on a computer or tablet rather than a mobile phone. Thank you for your participation in this survey. If you have any questions during the survey, or have any problems taking the survey, please feel free to contact researcher Sarah Truebe (stru...@arizona.edu). Take the survey here: https://uarizona.co1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_6llZGoHoNyBTCsJ Thank you for your time and participation! -- Sarah A Truebe PhD Candidate Dept of Geosciences, University of Arizona office: Gould-Simpson Bldg, Rm. 350 phone: 650-804-5413 http://u.arizona.edu/~struebe http://u.arizona.edu/%7Estruebe __._,_.___ Attachment(s) from Sarah Truebe | View https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/NSSwest/attachments/201599661;_ylc=X3oD MTJyZ3JtYnZzBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzEzNjM2MjM2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTEyNTQwNQRz ZWMDYXR0YWNobWVudARzbGsDdmlld09uV2ViBHN0aW1lAzEzOTcxODk3NTY- attachments on the web 1 of 1 File(s) http://l.yimg.com/kq/static/images/yg/img/doc/generic16x16.gif Truebe_SCMA_flyer_final.pdf https://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/13636236/2061097647/name/Truebe_SCMA_flyer_fi nal%2Epdf -- Coming Events: April 4-6, 2014 Speleo-Ed Seminar in southern California Lake Morena County Park in Campo, CA
[Texascavers] Texas Caver
The December Texas Caver was sheepishly mailed this week. The printer even called to ask if there was a typo on the date. :- /. Good printer, that. Very embarrassed. Have heard of other persons being such a procrastinator but I was never one like this before. Sorry y'all. Butch has been sent copy for website - watch for your electronic versions. Please send articles ASAP for next issue so I can catch up...! Thanks for your understanding and patience. Jill
