TSA 2011 Spring Meeting Request forPapers Join the festivities at this year's TSA Spring Convention in Brackettville at the Fort Clark Springs resort on April 1st-3rd, 2011! Events include informational talks, Map & Photo Salons, speleovendors, TSA & TCMA meetings, and so much more. Check out the relevant web sites at
TSAWebsite:www.caves.org FacebookEvent Page (can be viewed by non-members): http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=507449505&v=app_2344061033#!/event.php?eid=118366598218649&index=1 Mallory Mayeux and I have volunteered to help TSA Vice Chair Ellie Thoene coordinate speakers for the Saturday sessions. Help us out by either volunteering to speak, or suggesting a speaker or cave-related topic. Typical cave-related topics could include (but are not limited to): Archaeology Biology Diving Exploration Geology/Hydrology Long-term caving projects History Photography Restoration Safety Survey/GIS Techniques While Ellie is the coordinator of the event, we are jointly responsible for scheduling the speakers. There are a limited number of time slots available for presentations, so you must contact us (rather than Ellie) if you wish to be assured of a chance to speak on Saturday. There is more physical space for display this year, so we are offering a new venue for presentation that has become very popular at academic meetings over the last decade or so: the Poster Presentation. This is a printed and mounted (on foam core sheets) graphic version of a presentation. Posters are a nice way of getting across information that can be summarized briefly, or for information that needs more time to study than a the blink of a slide in a quick Powerpoint show. Plus, it is a good way to avoid public speaking if you are averse to that! The rules for posters will be looser than for an academic meeting: any size poster up to 3 X 4-ft, but you must provide the tripod or other mounting system (not wall mounted). We will accept up to 10 such poster papers. If you wish to speak or present a poster, please contact both of us at: Roger Moore: [email protected] Mallory Mayeux: [email protected] Thanks, Roger Moore and Mallory Mayeux
