texascavers Digest 2 Feb 2014 06:41:56 -0000 Issue 1923
Topics (messages 23354 through 23357):
an interesting video
23354 by: David
KIWI
23355 by: Gill Edigar
lava tubes book
23356 by: Mixon Bill
14th Sinkhole Conference: mark your calendars!
23357 by: George Veni
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This parachuting video was uploaded today.
I can't find anything caving related about it, but it is the best
helmet-cam video I have ever seen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYw4meRWGd4#t=464
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KXAN senior weatherman Jim Spencer said the Sunday temperature will not be
above 48, maybe 44, and 50% chance of rain, and lots of wind. On account of
that I'm gonna cancel the clean up and barrel resurrection I announced at
the Grotto meeting. Sorry, but that's just too cold for Texas cavers.
--Ediger
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Dave Bunnell's second edition of "Caves of Fire" about lava tubes is
now available from the NSS bookstore (nssbookstore.org). I reviewed
the first edition back in 2008, and I helped with some editing of the
new edition, so I'm not disinterested and won't review the new one.
But stats are 144 pages softbound, full of color pix, ISBN
9781879961319, not that it will do you any good to know that, because
it's for sale only by the NSS bookstore. $15.00 plus shipping, NSS
members $13.50. An ad just sent to the NSS News by the bookstore says
that NSS _life_ members can get it for only $12, and the web site said
that a couple of days ago, but now the web site says $13.50--about par
for the NSS bookstore. Ever notice how the bookstore's web page has a
column of "our most popular items" that is in fact largely random and
usually contains some things they probably haven't sold a copy of for
years?--Mixon
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Dear Friends,
I am happy to announce that the 14th Multidisciplinary Conference on Sinkholes
and the Engineering and Environmental Impacts of Karst, which is generally
known as "The Sinkhole Conference," will be held in Rochester, Minnesota, on
5-9 October 2015. Mark your calendars!
For 30 years this conference series has been the premier conference for all
aspects of karst geoscience and related engineering and environmental
issues-and not just sinkholes. This next Sinkhole Conference is being jointly
organized with the Minnesota Groundwater Association and should be an
exceptional meeting
The conference also now has a permanent website site, at the easy-to-remember
address: http://www.sinkholeconference.com/. Bookmark and visit it for more
information. The new "Past Conferences" tab includes the proceedings of the
13th Sinkhole Conference for free download. Information on conference hotels,
the call for papers, and more will be posted later this year.
If you have any questions, let me know. Also, please distribute this
information to anyone you think may be interested.
George
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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
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