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From: ICS 2009 eList <[email protected]>
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Date: May 20, 2009 11:13:57 AM CDT
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Subject: 15th ICS - field trip news and only 2 months!
Dear Friends,
Last month we sadly announced that we needed to cancel and re-examine
all of the trips for the 15th International Congress of Speleology
(ICS) because of White Nose Syndrome (WNS), the mysterious condition
that has recently killed about a half millions bats in the U.S. We
hoped to send you news about the trips a couple of weeks ago, but
arranging some of the details was more complicated than expected. Here
is the final news on the Pre and Post-ICS trips:
Confirmed Trips, Full
01: Coast-to-Coast Eastern Segment
02: Coast-to-Coast Western Segment
85: Cenote Karst of the Yucatan Peninsula
88: Giant Caves of Northern Mexico
Confirmed Trips, Space Available*
03: Texas Bat Caves
31: Mammoth Cave, Kentucky
41: Black Hills, South Dakota
51: Science in Southeastern New Mexico
53: Caving in the Guadalupe Mountains (post-Congress)
55: Lilburn Cave, California (only 2 slots still open!)
71: Cave Management in New York
86: Deep Pits of Mexico
* The numbers of seats available for some trips in may be different
from the total trip size originally announced
Canceled
04: Endangered Species, Endangered Caves
33: Cumberland Plateau (TAG)
34: Tectonic Pseudokarst of North Carolina
37: Caves and Karst of Virginia
52: Caving in the Guadalupe Mountains (pre-Congress)
56: Cave the Sierra Nevada, California
58: Big Island Hawaii
59: Southeast Alaska
81: Caving with the Maya
82: Caves of the Bahamas
I encourage you to register for the available trips soon before they
fill. Some of the trips may experience minor changes because of WNS.
If you are concerned, please contact the trip leaders as listed on our
website at www.ics2009.us. As reminder, to do our best to prevent the
spread of WNS in the US and to other countries, all caving equipment
and clothing will need to be decontaminated after each caving trip.
The decontamination procedures will be announced and posted on our
website within 2 weeks.
Today is exactly 2 months until the 15th ICS begins. Today our pre-
registration exceeded the total number of people who attended the 8th
ICS, the previous ICS held in the US in 1981. I look forward to seeing
many more registrations in the coming weeks. Remember, the price of
registration increases on June 1st so register now and register for
the great field trips that will be held before the ICS, after the ICS,
and on Wednesday during the ICS.
George
George Veni, Ph.D.
Chairman, 15th International Congress of Speleology
Adjunct Secretary, International Union of Speleology
Executive Director, U.S. National Cave and Karst Research Institute
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