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From: Geary Schindel <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 2, 2012 2:14 PM
Subject: [Texascavers] Your Webinar Invitation: Join us for "Caving robot
conquers the deepest sinkhole in the world"
Folks, we are pleased to announce a test run of the first NSS Webinar. We are
asking the Utah and Texas caving community to participate in the first NSS
webinar as a trial run for future webinars. Space is limited to 100 people.
We would like to have sufficient number of people attend the webinarto get good
feedback but there is not space in our webinar account yet for more than 100
people to attend at this timeso sign up early. Thanks to Debbie Spoons from
Utah for organizing this along with Dr. Marcus Gary for agreeing to make the
presentation. Also, R.D. Milholin and Aaron Bird for serving on the webinar
committee. We will also be looking for sponsors for the webinars as we expect
our costs to range around $1,000 if we stick with the 100 person limit and
$3,000 for the 500 person limitper year.In addition, we will be able to record
each webinar for future download. If you have ideas about future presenters or
subjects, please us know and
we’ll try to arrange it. Webinars can be offered as frequently as the webinar
committee has time and willing presenters.
Thanks, and please make sure that you give us some feedback on the webinar.
Geary Schindel,
NSS AVP
Caving robot conquers the deepest sinkhole in the world
Join us for a Webinar on May 7
Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/555781727
Please join us for the first NSS Webinar.
Marcus Gary, Ph.D., P.G. will be talking about his work with “DEPTHX” an
underwater caving robot. This robot is designed to “think for itself” while it
explores and maps, in 3D, deep underwater caves that are inaccessible to
people.
“DEPTHX” was able to successfully map the lower portion and bottom of the
world's deepest water-filled sinkhole, “Cenote Zacatón”, in Mexico. Because of
its great depth (over 1,000 feet [300 m]), human divers had failed to reach, or
even detect with sonar instruments, the bottom of this sinkhole.
Come and enjoy this presentation about a very unique “Robot caving trip”.
Title: Caving robot conquers the deepest sinkhole in the world
Date: Monday, May 7, 2012
Time: 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM CDT
After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information
about joining the Webinar.
System Requirements
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server
Macintosh®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.5 or newer
