[CML #17256] Fwd: Cave and karst news and announcements from NCKRI

Cavers Mailing List № 17256

Fwd: Cave and karst news and announcements from NCKRI

Автор: Bulat Mavlyudov
Дата: 24 Jan 2019

-------- Пересылаемое сообщение -------- От кого: "George Veni" Кому: "George Veni" Дата: Четверг, 24 января 2019, 11:16 +03:00 Тема: Cave and karst news and announcements from NCKRI Dear Friends, This is the first message from the US National Cave and Karst Research Institute (NCKRI) for the new year. We hope it is the best year yet for all of you. We certainly expect many great things to happen at NCKRI, and we start this list of news below with two important job announcements at NCKRI! Our many thank go to Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich for securing the funding to make these jobs, and others we will announce soon, possible. Here are the latest cave and karst news and announcements: * Job Opportunity: Cave and Karst Management Scientist at NCKRI! * Job Opportunity: Cave and Karst Management Specialist at NCKRI! * Announcing: TransKarst 2019: The 3 rd Asian Trans-Disciplinary Conference * New Book: Engineering Karstology of Dams and Reservoirs * New Book: Karst of Ireland - Landscape Hydrogeology Methods * Challenges for Subterranean Landscape Conservation in the World's Karst Regions: Call for Abstracts * Cave Internships Available: Montana, USA * Geological Society of America Convention: Call for Karst Session Proposals * Karst Field Studies 2019 Course Announcement: USA * Call for Abstracts: Cave Climate and Paleoclimate- Best Record of the Global Change- I V, Sofia Bulgaria * 2019 National Speleological Society Cave Diving Section International Cave Diving Conference: USA * List of Upcoming Cave and Karst Meetings Please contact the people and organizations listed below for more information, and feel free to share this message with anyone who may be interested. George ----------------------- Job Opportunity: Cave and Karst Management Scientist at NCKRI! The US National Cave and Karst Research Institute (NCKRI) wishes to hire an expert on the multidisciplinary management of caves and karst systems. This person will primarily provide professional leadership, advise, and technical assistance to the US National Park Service. This person will also conduct and support NCKRI cave and karst management research, and assist other partners and groups as available. The position description is provided at: https://www.nmt.edu/hr/docs/hr/jobs/CaveMgtScientistIII19-009.pdf This position will be based at NCKRI Headquarters in Carlsbad, New Mexico, USA. To apply for the job, for questions about applying for the job, and other questions related to employment, please see https://www.nmt.edu/hr/employment.php . NCKRI is proud to be administered by the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, which employs all NCKRI personnel. If you have questions about the job’s responsibilities, contact NCKRI Executive Director Dr. George Veni (all of his contact information is below at the end of this message). ----------------------- Job Opportunity: Cave and Karst Management Specialist at NCKRI! The US National Cave and Karst Research Institute (NCKRI) wishes to hire someone to conduct, assist with, and facilitate multidisciplinary cave and karst scientific and management research, data collection, plus laboratory, field, and digital analyses. This person will maintain NCKRI field, lab, and scientific equipment to support those activities, and other NCKRI tasks as assigned. The position description is provided at: https://www.nmt.edu/hr/docs/hr/jobs/CaveKarstSciSpec19-016.pdf This position will be based at NCKRI Headquarters in Carlsbad, New Mexico, USA. To apply for the job, for questions about applying for the job, and other questions related to employment, please see https://www.nmt.edu/hr/employment.php . NCKRI is proud to be administered by the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, which employs all NCKRI personnel. If you have questions about the job’s responsibilities, contact NCKRI Executive Director Dr. George Veni (all of his contact information is below at the end of this message). ----------------------- Announcing: TransKarst 2019: The 3 rd Asian Trans-Disciplinary Karst Conference The Philippine Speleological Society is hosting TransKarst 2019—the 3 rd Asian Trans-Disciplinary Karst Conference on 7-10 September 2019 in Bohol, Philippines. The conference is organized in conjunction with the Asian Union of Speleology. In addition to the usual papers and event, the meeting will host the annual meeting of the Bureau of the International Union of Speleology (UIS) whose members will teach multiple instructional workshops. The website has just been posted, http://www.transkarst2019.com/ , and more information will be added soon. ----------------------- New Book: Engineering Karstology of Dams and Reservoirs The latest book by Dr. Petar Milanović is published by CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group ( https://www.crcpress.com/Engineering-Karstology-of-Dams-and-Reservoirs/Milanovic/p/book/9781498748070 ). It contains vast practical engineering experience acquired by Prof. Milanović during his many years of dealing with dams and reservoirs in a complex environment such as karst. A wealth of data is presented in 13 chapters and on 356 pages, including recommendations for site selection, research methods, various technical solutions for remedying or preventing water losses, as well as lessons learned from dam projects executed in karst throughout the world. ----------------------- New Book: Karst of Ireland - Landscape Hydrogeology Methods The book by Dr. David Drew was published by the Geological Survey of Ireland ( https://gsi.ie/gsishop/Product.aspx?Productid=1513&Catid=20 ). It was announced as a practical book for both specialists and non-specialists. It is 318 pages long, and all the chapters contain excellent photos and illustrations. Such an exceptional visualisation of karstified areas is especially useful for decision makers and may facilitate effective environmental management. ----------------------- Challenges for Subterranean Landscape Conservation in the World's Karst Regions: Call for Abstracts There will be a symposium "Challenges for Subterranean Landscape Conservation in the World's Karst Regions" at the 10th World Congress of the International Association of Landscape Ecologists in Milan, Italy, July 1-5, 2019 organized by Claudia Canedoli and Emilio Padoa-Schioppa of the University of Milano-Bicocca and Chris Groves of Western Kentucky University. Please feel free to forward this notice to any interested colleagues, and Dr. Canedoli can be reached with questions at < >. Please note that the abstract deadline is 25 January 2019 at 23:59:59 Central European Time. Thanks very much to Claudia for instigating this idea and introducing these ideas to a potentially broad new group of scientists and conservationists. The context of landscape ecology is very useful here because it can help us generate a conversation about differences between, for example, the approaches of cave protection vs. karst landscape or karst system protection. For information on the Congress, visit http://www.iale2019.unimib.it . The session description is as follows: Landscape ecology has contributed to important advances in environmental conservation because it helps expand attention from single sites to larger scale patterns and processes and to understand complex interactions existing among a mosaic of elements. This has enhanced understanding of the complexity of natural systems and informed land management strategies. Karst environments have peculiar hydrogeological and ecological features, and are among the most fragile ecosystems in the world. They furnish valuable natural resources, such as water, and represent suitable habitat for the survival of many rare or endemic species. Despite this, the importance of these ecosystems has so far been largely ignored, leading in many cases to overexploitation of subterranean resources, degradation of the environment (both at the surface and underground), as well as habitat and biodiversity loss. Moreover, subterranean ecosystems are in many cases still poorly mapped because of limitations in exploration and therefore subterranean spatial patterns are typically less well known. While terrestrial systems are normally represented as surficial environmental units, in the presence of karstic phenomena it is important to consider also the close relationship that exists between the surface and underground landscape systems. This has repercussions also in conservation strategies for these areas, where it is common to consider strategies for the conservation of single caves (e.g. the European Habitat Directive for the conservation of habitats defines a cave as ‘a punctual element’) or of single endemic species or taxonomic groups that are easily detectable in the surface. However, it is increasingly recognized that many conservation and land-use issues can only be tackled in a sensible way by considering broader landscape frameworks within which caves are important elements. Our understanding of karst systems as a whole suffers from of lack of large-scale, comprehensive studies that consider the subterranean ecosystem as a (three-dimensional) landscape. By changing this perspective and acknowledging the complexity of these environments, we will be able to integrate ecological processes, biodiversity patterns, energy flows, hydrological properties, and geomorphological features. In order to develop our research, it is necessary to move towards highly multidisciplinary studies that are able to link subterranean elements and features and understand the ecological processes of the ecosystem as a whole. Because human activities strongly modify existing landscape patterns and processes, either deliberately or inadvertently, the understanding of their impacts on karst systems is essential for rational land use planning, management and biodiversity and resource conservation. In this symposium, we are seeking original studies, conceptual works, case-studies and presentation of past, ongoing and future research project dealing with the subterranean environment. Contributions are encouraged from every field that can contributes to advances in understanding about these peculiar ecosystems: geology, hydrology, soil science, biology, taxonomy, zoology, ethology, ecotoxicology and others. We are particularly interested in studies leading to better understanding of the composition, structure and function of subterranean landscapes; energy and material flows; functional links between patterns and processes; relationships between aboveground and belowground environments; subterranean biodiversity conservation; human impacts; valuation of services provided by subterranean ecosystems. The intention of the symposium a stimulate interactions between researchers involved in the study of these complex and intriguing systems and to promote a debate about the necessity to shift attention towards a large-scale perspective that integrates both biotic and abiotic features to understand their spatial patterns and functional links with the final aim to enhance conservation strategies. Chris Chris Groves, PhD WKU Distinguished Professor of Hydrogeology Director, Crawford Hydrology Laboratory Dept. of Geography and Geology, Western Kentucky University Bowling Green, KY 42101 USA +1 270 745-5974 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christopher_Groves2 ----------------------- Cave Internships Available: Montana, USA I am the Program Manager for a Conservation Intern program in Montana. We will have two internships available this summer through the US Forest Service (USFS)/Bureau of Land Management (BLM) that will be focused on cave inventory in the Pryor Mountains. We are looking for applicants with caving experience. I have listed more about the opportunity below: The BLM Billings Field Office and US Forest Service Custer Gallatin National Forest are working in conjunction with the National Speleological Society’s Northern Rocky Mountain Grotto to conduct cave inventory and monitoring of cave resources. Cave entrance location from a November 2017 recon flight and other information sources will be used to identify potential caves for inventory, monitoring and significance evaluation. * navigate to the points collected during the helicopter flight use GPS * investigate to see if the location is a cave entrance, document what they find using a standardized inventory protocol and digital photos * locate and enter cave systems to document and monitor physical cave characteristics, including biologic, geologic, hydrologic, and cultural resource * incorporate findings into work on USFS and BLM Cave Management Plans and Federal Cave Resources Protection Act significant cave designations * additional time will be spent organizing and compiling data, including digital photos, populating inventory databases and/or hard copy files. Do you have a way to spread the word about the amazing opportunity? Anyone interested should apply here: https://careers-mtcorps.icims.com/jobs/1365/conservation-intern/job Thank you! Best, Mandy Mandy Hedstrom (she/her/hers) Program Manager - Individual Placement | Montana Conservation Corps 206 N Grand Ave, Bozeman, MT 59715 | 406.587.4475, ext. 102 | www.mtcorps.org ----------------------- Geological Society of America Convention: Call for Karst Session Proposals Dear Friends and Colleagues, The 2019 GSA Annual Meeting will be in Phoenix from Sept. 22-25. Please consider volunteering to chair a session and submit a session proposal for this year's meeting. The proposal deadline is Feb. 1, and you can find more information at the following link: https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2019AM/cfs.cgi . Please contact me ( ) if you plan to submit a session proposal so that we can coordinate a full meeting program for the Karst Division. A successful meeting requires many volunteers; thank you in advance for your help! Best regards, Andrew Luhmann GSA Karst Division ____ Andrew Luhmann Assistant Professor of Geology Department of Geology and Environmental Science Wheaton College 501 College Ave., Meyer 48 Wheaton, IL 60187 630-752-7476 https://sites.google.com/site/andrewluhmann/ ----------------------- Karst Field Studies 2019 Course Announcement: USA As we begin a new year and start looking forward to the summer months ahead, we want to remind you about the possibility of spending a week of your summer with us at the Karst Field Studies program. As a reminder, the courses for the summer 2019 season are: Cave Archaeology and Rock Art , June 2-8, Dr. George Crothers and Dr. Natalie Uomini Exploration of Mammoth Cave , June 9-14, Mr. Bruce Hatcher and Mr. David Kem Cave and Karst Resource Management , June 23-27, Mr. Joel Despain and Dr. Pat Kambesis Cave Survey and Cartography , July 21-26, Dr. Pat Kambesis and Mr. Howard Kalnitz Caves and Karst of Florida , July 28-August 3, Dr. Jason Polk Registration has been open for some time now and space is getting limited in some courses. If you haven’t already do so, please reserve your spot soon. Reserve your spot in a course by clicking on any of the “Register” buttons on the KFS website ( www.karstfieldstudies.com ). Courses may be taken for graduate, undergraduate, or continuing education credit. Courses may also be taken for fun as non-credit workshops. Visit the website for more information about the program, course descriptions and schedules, how to register, or instructor bios. If you have any questions please contact Dr. Leslie North at . Stay up to date on all the latest KFS news and announcements by following us on social media through Instagram @karstfieldstudies , Twitter @KFSWKU , and/or Facebook/WKUKarstfieldstudies . Lastly, please help us spread the word about the program by forwarding this message to your colleagues, grotto members, staff, students, friends, and any other parties you feel may be interested in the program courses! Hope to see you this summer! Leslie Leslie A. North, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Environmental Geoscience Director, Karst Field Studies Program Associate Editor, Journal of Cave and Karst Studies Associate Director for Education and Outreach Center for Human GeoEnvironmental Studies (CHNGES) Department of Geography and Geology Western Kentucky University 1906 College Heights Blvd., EST 438A Bowling Green, KY 42101 (270) 745-5982 – office ----------------------- Call for Abstracts: Cave Climate and Paleoclimate- Best Record of the Global Change- I V, Sofia Bulgaria Dear Colleagues, I am writing regarding the 4 th Symposium on "Cave Climate and Paleoclimate- Best Record of the Global Change- I V " in September 2019 . This meeting is primary focused on influence of the climate and karst ecosystems on karst processes and on paleoclimatic records in speleothems and cave sediments. Following the great success of the international workshop on "Cave Climate and Paleoclimate- Best Record of the Global Change" in Stara Zagora , symposium on "Cave Climate and Paleoclimate- Best Record of the Global Change- II" during the 14th International Congress of Speleology (ICS) in Greece and the special session 3 "Cave Climate and Paleoclimate Record of the Global Change- III” of the 16 th ICS in Brno , 4 th Symposium on "Cave Climate and Paleoclimate- Best Record of the Global Change- will be held I V " during the 13th EuroSpeleo Forum in Sofia, Bulgaria , 26th – 29th September 2019 https://esf2019.speleo-bg.org I am inviting interested people to submit a talk to this meeting. You must be a registered participant of the 13th EuroSpeleo Forum in order to give presentations at this Symposium (which is a part of the Forum ). Details about the EuroSpeleo Forum registration can be found at: https://esf2019.speleo-bg.org T opics of the special session are: 1. Underground Climatology 2. Paleoclimatic Reconstruction from Karst Sediments 3. Speleothem records of Global Environmental Changes. 4. Ecosystems Impact on Karst Processes and Karst Records. 5. Astrophysical and Geophysical Applications of Speleothem Records 6. Infiltration of Porous Waters 7. Soil Impact on Karst Processes 8. Physical Chemistry of Karst Processes 9. Trace Geochemistry of Karst 10. Biogenic Mineralisation in Caves 11. Using of Cave Climate for Medical Therapy. 13th EuroSpeleo Forum will have sessions on Cave Geology, Geomorphology and Geography of Karst and on Methods for searching and location of caves; The deadline for submission of the abstracts is 30 th May 201 9 With my best regards, Prof. Yavor Shopov, Chairman of the 4 th Symposium on "Cave Climate and Paleoclimate- Best Record of the Global Change- I V " ----------------------- 2019 National Speleological Society Cave Diving Section International Cave Diving Conference: USA Save the date for this exciting meeting, which will be held on 24-26 May 2019 in Lake City, Florida, USA. The complete event schedule and Eventbrite registration information will be available soon. For more information and upcoming details visit https://nsscds.org/evetns/2019-nss-cds-international-cave-diving-conference/ . ----------------------- List of Upcoming Cave and Karst Meetings 1) XIV National Congress of Speleology , 1-4 February 2019 (Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico), http://umae.org/congreso2019/ 2) 1 st Colloquium on the Caves of Azé , 9-10 March 2019 (Saône-et-Loire, France), for more information, contact: 3) 2019 SAGEEP Geohazards Conference of the Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society (EEGS) , 17-21 March 2019 (Portland, Oregon, USA), will include a Karst and Sinkholes Session, https://www.sageep.org/ . 4) Hypogea 2019: The I nternational Congress of Speleology in Artificial Cavities , 20-25 May 2019 (Dobrich, Bulgaria), http://www.hypogea2019.org/ 5) 2019 National Speleological Society Cave Diving Section International Cave Diving Conference , 24-26 May 2019 (Lake City, Florida, USA), https://nsscds.org/evetns/2019-nss-cds-international-cave-diving-conference/ 6) Karst Field Studies 2019: Five courses offered , 2 June – 3 August 2019 (Florida and Kentucky, USA), www.karstfieldstudies.com 7) 48th French National Speleo Congress , 7-10 June 2019 (La Ciotat, Marseille, France), https://www.facebook.com/FFSpeleologie/ 8) International Association of Hydrogeologists Karst Commission Geo Trip: Carpathian Karst , 15-18 June 2019 (Romania and Serbia), www.karst.edu.rs . 9) 27 th International Karstological School "Classical karst": Karst Hydrogeology - Research Trends and Applications , 17-21 June 2019 (Postojna, Slovenia), http://iks.zrc-sazu.si/en/ 10) National Speleological Society Convention , 17-21 June 2019 (Cookeville, Tennessee, USA), http://nss2019.subworks.com/ . 11) 35 th Brazilian Speleological Congress and 50 th Anniversary of the Brazilian Speleological Society , 19-22 June 2019, ( Bonito, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil), website to be announced soon. 12) Man and Karst Conference , 24-26 June 2019 (Ragusa, Sicily, Italy), http://www.cirs-ragusa.org 13) Symposium on Caves, Karst, and Subterranean Environments: Cuba , 1-5 July 2019 (Havana, Cuba), http://www.cubambiente.com/ 14) Symposium: Challenges for Subterranean Landscape Conservation in the World's Karst Regions, 10th World Congress of the International Association of Landscape Ecologists , 1-5 July 2019 (Milan, Italy), http://www.iale2019.unimib.it . 15) National Speleological Congress of Switzerland , 9-12 August 2019 (Interlaken, Switzerland), https://sinterlaken.ch/en/ 16) 4th Summer School on Speleothem Science , 11-17 August 2019 (Cluj-Napoca, Romania), https://www.speleothemschool.com/ . 17) German Annual Speleo Meeting ,15-18 August 2019 (Nesselwang, Bavaria, Germany), www.vdhk.de 18) TransKarst 2019: The 3 rd Asian Trans-Disciplinary Conference , 7-10 September 2019 (Bohol, Philippines), http://www.transkarst2019.com/ . 19) ArmConference 2019: Caves as Natural and Cultural Monuments , 11-13 September 2019 (Yerevan, Armenia), http://armconference2019.com/ 20) Geological Society of America Convention , 22-25 September 2019 (Phoenix, Arizona, USA), http://www.geosociety.org/GSA/Events/Annual_Meeting/GSA/Events/gsa2019.aspx 21) 13 th EuroSpeleo Forum , 23-26 September 2019 (Sofia, Bulgaria), website to be announced soon. 22) 46 th IAH Congress “Groundwater Management and Governance Coping with Water Scarcity” (Topic 7: Karst Hydrogeology), 23-27 September 2019 (Malaga, Spain), http://www.iah2019.org/topics-and-sessions/ 23) National Cave and Karst Management Symposium , 7-11 October 2019 (Bristol, Virginia, USA), http://nckms.org/2019-symposium 24) 16 th Multidisciplinary Conference on the Engineering and Environmental Impacts of Karst , 20-24 April 2020 (San Juan, Puerto Rico), www.sinkholeconference.com 25) 19 th International Symposium on Vulcanospeleology , 29 August – 5 September 2020 (Catania, Italy), http://www.19isvetna.com/ 26) 18 th International Congress of Speleology , 23-29 July 2021 (Lyon, France), http://uis2021.speleos.fr/ ******************** George Veni, PhD Executive Director, National Cave and Karst Research Institute (NCKRI) and President, International Union of Speleology (UIS) NCKRI address (primary) 400-1 Cascades Avenue Carlsbad, New Mexico 88220 USA Office: +575-887-5517 Mobile: +210-863-5919 Fax: +575-887-5523 www.nckri.org UIS address Titov trg 2 Postojna, 6230, Slovenia www.uis-speleo.org ---------------- -- Bulat Mavlyudov

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