Folks, The Texas Hydro Geo Workshop last weekend was an outstanding success. We had 220 people attend the event which was hosted by Cave Without a Name and the Bexar Grotto of the NSS. Despite the rain, the event went very well and the participants chose between 20 modules including surface and borehole geophysics, tracer testing, stream gauging, water sampling, cave mapping, caving and cave safety, career development, environmental and geotechnical drilling, etc. The grotto volunteers did an outstanding job. Most of the colleges and universities in Texas were represented and even a few from outside the area including Univ of Minnesota, University of Arkansas, Hofstra University and even our own George Veni from the National Cave and Karst Research Institute was present. We had a number of cavers that also attended. You can view the workshop web pages at http://caves.org/grotto/bexargrotto/HydroGeo/ On Saturday evening, Dr. Robert Brinkmann, professor at Hofstra University was the keynote speaker. His talk on karst and sustainability was presented in the cave and very well received. After his talk, we had a yodeling/hog calling contest lead by Dr. John Van Brahana. Dr. Brinkmann recorded some video of the winner of the yodeling contest. You can few the video here at http://bobbrinkmann.blogspot.com/ Special thanks to the following: Mr. Tom Summers, owner of Cave Without a Name and his staff, Chris Webb and Mike Burrell, for all their help in hosting the event. The many volunteers of the Bexar Grotto for a job well done. The comments from the evaluation forms indicate it was enjoyed by everyone. Thanks, Geary Schindel Gregg Williams Workshop Organizers
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