Some people have begun to receive their NSS ballots for the Board of Governors
(BOG). One of the current BOG members would like to be considered as a write
in candidate. Please distribute this to all NSS mailing lists you know of.
And please don't forget to vote before May 23. Last year New Mexico had the
third highest return rate in the country, lets keep up the good work!
thanks
Jennifer
Below is the Platform for Lee Florea:
LEE FLOREA, NSS 37909FE/LF
My active caving began in 1991 near my family farm in eastern Kentucky.
Caving was a convenient distraction from my studies. By 1993, I became a NSS
member and an active participant in the Green River Grotto. During my time
as a college student, the goals of my weekend trips changed from recreation,
to exploration, and eventually survey. Expedition work with the Cave
Research Foundation and participation in summer field courses at Mammoth
Cave completed my transformation from a career in physics to a life-long
passion for geology and caving.
Recently I returned to Kentucky from a six-year tenure in Florida when I
accepted an assistant professor of environmental geoscience position at
Western Kentucky University. These past fifteen years, I have supported the
Society, the community, and the environment in a number of ways. For
example, I served as the first president of the Kentucky
Speleological
Survey and I helped to found the Florida Cave Survey. Additionally, I have
worked in a central role with the 2001 and 2008 conventions and with the
2009 International Congress. I have struggled to protect cave resources for
many years from interstate highways and coal mines in Kentucky and golf
courses and housing developments in Florida.
The NSS has achieved public awareness of caves over the past six decades,
but now the Society must adapt its strategies to remain in a crucial role of
cave research and protection. A coherent vision for a new NSS Office
Headquarters is central to that theme.
During my first term as a NSS Director, I have made progress on a number
of goals. Specific actions that I have sponsored include: 1) A streamlining
of our policy regarding scholarships; we are now able to offer two Ralph
Stone Awards to graduate students each year. 2) A renewal of the NSS
Preserves Research
Initiative including a line of funding to support awarded
grants. 3) Board Acts that have resulted in the move and inventory of our
NSS Speleo Museum.
If elected to the Board for a second term, I will continue my efforts to
see the Society through the present economy, white nose syndrome, and a move
to a new headquarters. I will make it a priority to seek solutions and
bridge the growing gap between non-scientist cavers and non-caving
scientists using my experience in resource protection, policy research, and
grant writing.
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