texascavers Digest 14 May 2012 17:35:59 -0000 Issue 1545
Topics (messages 19968 through 19974):
Re: CBS WFAA Ch. 8 (DFW) Story on WNS and Bracken Cave
19968 by: Brian Freyling
19969 by: Weimin
Member of American Diggers crew (SPIKE TV) gets stuck in a cave..
19970 by: Ted Samsel
tesr
19971 by: Ted Samsel
NSS election results
19972 by: Speleosteele.aol.com
UT Grotto Meeting - Wed May 16th
19973 by: Gary Franklin
Sinkhole Conference: website and call for abstracts!
19974 by: George Veni
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Because the body temperature of Mexican freetail bats doesn't drop low
enough for the fungus to thrive, experts suspect freetails may instead
become carriers that infect other bats.
I hadn't heard that before...
-Brian
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 11:02 PM, R D Milhollin <[email protected]>wrote:
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> http://www.wfaa.com/news/texas-news/Bats-threatened-by-mysterious-disease-150833365.html
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WFAA is ABC affiliate.
R D Milhollin <mailto:[email protected]>
Saturday, May 12, 2012 12:02 AM
http://www.wfaa.com/news/texas-news/Bats-threatened-by-mysterious-disease-150833365.html
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Weimin
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Ha! Jerks. A tv show about pot hunters.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/03/american-digger-wild-west_n_1474311.html
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>From TagNet
1) NSS election results
By: Cheryl Jones (Mclean, Virginia)
[email protected]
[Re-posted from CaveChat. Maybe I missed it, but I haven't seen that the
info has been circulated. BTW, I heard from Allan that about 2090
ballots were cast, which is just a bit shy of last year's 2139. ]
All,
Here are the results of the 2012 NSS Director Election. Many thanks to
all candidates who ran in the election. I have received many complements
on the quality of the slate of candidates and their platforms.
Congratulations to the five winners who will take a seat on the BOG on
Monday, June 25, 2012 at our summer NSS Convention.
It is my understanding that there is a sixth Director vacancy which
occurred during the course of the election. According to the NSS By-laws
this vacancy will be filled at the next meeting of the BOG which will
occur on the Monday of our summer convention in Lewisburg, WV.
The numbers given below may change very slightly over the next few weeks
as some paper ballots postmarked by the May 1st deadline arrive.
However, there are not enough paper ballots out there to make a
difference in the final outcome of the election.
Votes Received
1189 Carol Tiderman (2012-2015 Term)
977 Margot Geisler (2012-2015 Term)
971 Dick Mitchell (2012-2015 Term)
939 Mike Crockett (2012-2015 Term)
843 Peri Frantz (filling vacancy in 2011-2014 Term)
692 Jay Balakirsky
671 Walter Pickel
667 Gary Gibula
657 Robert David 'RD' Milhollin
614 Herman Miller
534 Buford Pruitt
37 Write-ins
Please do not hesitate to call or e-mail with questions or comments.
Sincerely, Allan
Allan Weberg,Chairman
NSS Nominating Committee
[email protected]
703-909-1047
http://www.caves.org/committee/nominating/index.shtml
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Howdy Caver,
You are invited to the next UT Grotto meeting - Wednesday May 16th from
7:45PM- 9:00PM
University of Texas Campus in 2.48 Painter Hall (156 West 24th Street,
Austin TX 78712) http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/pai.html
Vivian Loftin will present Spirit of the Jungle
A recap of a brief and personal history of 15 years of American cave
exploration in Sarawak Malaysia. A story of high adventure, heavy politics,
international intrigue, and sweet, sweet, virgin borehole, set in the
exquisite tropical rainforest of the remote island of Borneo from 1994 to
2009. Come out for the fun and fellowship with Austin Texas Cavers.
For information on Underground Texas Grotto activities, please see
www.utgrotto.org
Officer contact, trip reports, event calendar, and new caver training links
to beginner trips or vertical rope training are available.
Before the meeting, take advantage of Sao Paulo www.saopaulos.net for
happy hour specials. This area is the best place to park and meet folks
walking over to the meeting. Then after the official meeting, we continue
with the decades long tradition to reconvene for burgers, beer, and tall
tales of caving at Posse East. www.posse-east.com
The UT Grotto Program calendar is wide open and needs you, the caver with
photos and a story to share about your adventures, scientific research, or
something else really cool. Contact me.
Sincerely,
Gary Franklin
UT Grotto Vice Chair & Program Organizer
512-585-6057
[email protected]
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Dear Friends,
We are excited and happy to announce that the website is up and the call for
abstracts has begun for the 13th Multidisciplinary Conference on Sinkholes
and the Engineering and Environmental Impacts of Karst! More commonly called
"The Sinkhole Conference," since 1984 this excellent series of meetings has
been pivotal in bringing together engineers, geologists, geophysicists, and
regulators to exchange ideas and enhance everyone's understanding of the
challenges of living in karst areas.
The National Cave and Karst Research Institute (NCKRI) is honored to have
been given management of this conference series, and it still operated by
the Organizing Committee made up of people who have hosted this conference
for years, including representatives of sponsoring organizations like P.E.
LaMoreaux and Associates, U.S. Geological Survey, Illinois State Geological
Survey, Barton Springs/Edwards Aquifer Conservation District, and many
others. If your organization is interested in being a sponsor or exhibitor,
please contact us.
The conference will be held in Carlsbad, New Mexico, at NCKRI Headquarters,
on 6-10 May 2013. This is the most westerly venue for the conference to
date, and an excellent opportunity for the field trip and sessions to focus
on evaporite karst and karst management in arid environments, as well as the
wide range of other topics.
You can access the website through the NCKRI website's "Events" tab at
www.nckri.org or directly at
http://sites.google.com/site/sinkholeconference2013/. To submit an abstract,
click on "Call for Abstracts" in the upper right side of the home page. The
abstract deadline is August 15th!
Over the next month or so we'll add much more information to the website and
begin registration. We'll send another message at that time. Please share
these messages with any you think may be interested.
If you have any questions or suggestions, let us know.
See you in Carlsbad in one year!
George Veni and Jim LaMoreaux
Co-chairman, 13th Sinkhole Conference
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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
[email protected]
www.nckri.org
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