Re: [Texascavers] [SWR CAVERS] Here's a worm that makes its own limestone caves

2019-08-09 Thread George Veni
The 3rd TransKarst Symposium will be held in Bohol next month where the clams are found. I'll see if I can find more information. Neat stuff! George (Sent from my mobile phone) George Veni, PhD Executive Director, National Cave and Karst Research Institute (NCKRI) and

Re: [Texascavers] [SWR CAVERS] Here's a worm that makes its own limestone caves

2019-08-09 Thread Julia Germany
Hi Penny and others! Here’s a short (2 min) yet very informative video from the researchers at Northeastern Uni who discovered and are studying this limestone-eating clam. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4crB-YKYbdo Fun to see them split a rock and retrieve one! - from julia's cell Julia G

[Texascavers] Houston related

2019-08-09 Thread David
Is anybody in the Houston area going to the Texas Speleological Center ( the TSC ) tomorrow, Saturday, the 10th ? I am planning to attend the celebration of life to be held there. Disclaimer: My only drama going on, outside of my normal drama, is that I met a strange person on Craigslist

Re: [Texascavers] [SWR CAVERS] Here's a worm that makes its own limestone caves

2019-08-09 Thread Penelope Boston
Super exciting! Thanks for sharing this, Lee. I will try to find the technical paper (if any) that describes this. I don’t recall whether we can attach things to these list-serves so I’m not doing that, but I have a category in my agnostic cave classification scheme first published in 2004,

Re: [Texascavers] Natural Bridge Caverns update

2019-08-09 Thread Carol W Russell
This is the stuff that dreams are made of. On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 7:31 PM Jerry wrote: > Congratulations to all for a fine discovery ! > > Gonna have to make t-shirts for that there "Dream Team." Candidates for > the Lew Bicking Award I'm sure. > > Jerry Atkinson. > > -Original Message-