A creative caver could devote a whole Texas Caver issue with
interesting articles
on the subject matter of statistics associated with caving, and the NSS
and mortgage tips for cavers.
I would be interested how many cavers use Linux as their primary
computer system. ( This message is coming to
Thank you, Alex & Bob, for putting the NSS Members statistics on the
website.
Another very interesting statistic would be the quantity/per cent of
members by gender through the years. How long has that been recorded on
the membership applications? I suspect there would be a significant
In all of the bemoaning of declining new membership I’ve seen on this list
serve this week, no one has mentioned the chilling effects of WNS on cave
visitation, and the indirect affects on recruiting and keeping new cavers
interested in caving. In light of WNS, I find it actually pretty
Thanks, Alex,for pointing out those membership tables on the NSS web site (and
for putting them there). One an learn a lot from them.
Note that many of the membership classes in the table don't really exist any
longer, because the classes were rationalized to a considerable extent lately.
For
This weekend is going to be the last CBSP TSA project weekend of the season.
We will be focusing on cleaning up any data loose ends and avoiding the
rain.
Because of the weather outlook, we will be *camping at the Conference
Center lawn*. We will not be entering the building.
Thanks, Lowgun, for resurrecting the statistics! I hadn't seen them since they
disappeared from the Members Manual. Hoke copied me on your discussion.
The NSS statistics as of February 2016 are now posted in several places on the
NSS website, the most notable being in the Membership area of the
Whoa, this is great! Who among us knew that John Strickland joined the NSS
prior to Pete?
Although it’s disheartening to see that the percentage of female names on this
list is below 10%. :(
Diana
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Diana R. Tomchick
Professor
Departments of
Well, the zip codes vary a lot in area, so that would have to be
calculated to determine true density.
Here's the top 12 zip codes with most NSS members:
Georgia 300xx 177
Tennessee 373xx 113
Georgia 301xx 101
Arizona 857xx 97
Florida 326xx 94
