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On ! Ho"zon

Sunday - July 19,2009

a publication of the National Speleological Society

Welcome to the combined 15th International Congress of Speleology and 2009 National Speleological Society Convention.

We are glad you are here, and weʼll do all we can to make this an excellent week that you will always fondly remember. Use the Information room to find information not in your program. If you need more help, there will be people wering bright yellow shirts with Staff on the back. If they donʼt have an answer, they will find someone who does.

Take some time to sit, unwind from your long trip and read your program. There is a powerpoint program near Registration that will give you information you may find useful. Go see the vendors for the items you just canʼt live without. See the signup sheets in Registration for trips you donʼt want to miss. And, most of all have a good time here at the combined Convention and Congress.

Program Additions and Changes

Watch this space for any program or activity changes.

Save Sister Winkie! Sister Winkie is usually burned at the end of NSS Conventions. The program this year mentions that if Sister Winkie is burned, she must be burned in the sauna fire. That information is wrong. The sauna fire has a special exemption from the Fire Marshall, and itʼs design will not accommodate Sister Winkie. Texas is in a major drought and the risk of an out-ofcontrol fire is high. We are lucky to have

a sauna fire. Donʼt abuse that privilege. Sister Winkie must not burn!

Convention Announcements

You must wear your name tag every day and at all NSS/ICS functions

Registration will be open 24 hours until Monday just before the Howdy Party

On the Horizon, your daily newsletter, can be picked up in the information room and at the cafeteria on campus. It will also be posted as a PDF on the congress website: www.ics2009.us

Read your program for more information about On the Horizon. The editor retains the right to publish or not depending on space and content. If you need to see the editor, she can be found in 222 Cailloux Hall.



The James G. Mitchell Award may be made for the best scientific paper presented at any of the sessions of the annual convention by a member (or members) of the National Speleological Society, age 25 or younger. Eligible presenters should submit their name, NSS number, paper title with the scheduled session and time to Mike Backe. Please e-mail information to [email protected] or leave a note for the Mitchell Award at Registration. Remember to make your caving trip reservations before Registration closes the day before the trip. Also remember that Texas caves are warm, about 20C

Sunday - July 19,2009 (70)F) so do not wear coveralls or cave suits. Blue jeans and T-shirts are fine for most caving trips in Texas. We need van drivers! You must hold a valid, USA, Canadian, or Mexican driver’s license and be 25 years old or older. Sign up at Registration.

it weighed that much) during the vendor move in at Weir on Friday! We would still be in the parking lot without you (the elevator is working now!) Come see the vendors in Weir or Moody, open all day Sunday and all week.

Book signings - these are in Weir on the first floor outside the bookstores. Monday: 11:00 am to 13:00 (1:00 pm) Lois Manno “Visions Underground”

Speleo Projects sponsors 1 (one) daily drawing Monday - Friday, for a FREE 2010 Caving Calendar + a surprise gift from Europe. Come to Weir 110 to enter. Winners must collect their prizes in person.

Menu from the Dining Hall for today: deli bar salad bar hot dog bar hamburgers french fries tuna nooddle casserole mixed vegetables Also served in the Lion’s Den and Dining Hall: Beef Stroganoff Fettuccini pasta carrots rolls and butter.

All NSS Grottos who brought their publications for exchange with the Swiss Speleological Society should bring them to the Speleo Projects stand in Weir 110. Anyone else who wishes to make an exchange should come to see if the SSS Library needs your publication.

Grant Money Available. The National Speleological Foundation offers grants for cave and karst related projects, including those for research, education, acquisitions, and exploration. Learn how to apply at the NSF meeting on Thursday at 2:00 p.m. in room CH112. Increase your chances of a successful application by making a 5 minute presentation. Email or call to get on the agenda. [email protected]. or (267) 968-1389. More information at www.speleofoundation.org.

Don’t miss “Speleobooks After Hours” in the sales tent in the campground. Great deals! Open most evenings.

Beyond the Horizon A Texas sized thank you to everyone that gave 14 tons of sweat and blood (yes

Where is Starbucks? 4 miles West of campus on 17. 30 03.706N 099 10.267W 1651 ft. Emily says - yes, it is chipped, and yes, it is the same knee. Thank you for asking! She is fine and off the crutches the day after Congress. Emily says - yes, it is chipped, and yes, it is the same knee. Thank you for asking! She is fine and off the crutches the day after Congress. Be sure to read the information on WNS

Sunday - July 19,2009 decontamination on page 48 of your program. This is especially important if you plan to go caving. Thoughts For Convention The facts, though interesting, are irrelevant. Never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty and the pig likes it. (Don’t cavers?)



On ! Ho"zon a publication of the National Speleological Society

Monday - July 20, 2009

Tonightʼs big event is the Howdy Party! Located at the Robbins Lewis Pavilion, from 19:00 to 23:00 hours (7:00 - 11:00), you can enjoy Texas BBQ, drinks and dancing. Yʼall come!

Program Additions and Changes

General Exploration 1 on Tuesday afternoon in Dietert Auditorium. The program schedule correctly lists the location but the program text incorrectly places it in Diertert Classroom.

Cave Ballad Listening Session - time change. New time - Tuesday 13:00 - 14:00 in CH219. This session will be repeated Friday 13:00 - 14:00 in CH112.

Important time change - Seminole Canyon Rock Art Wednesday trip meet at the bus at 05:00 (5:00 am). We must leave as early as possible. For more information see trip description in the Information Room across from Registration.

Convention Announcements

You must wear your name tag every day and at all NSS/ICS functions

“Itʼs one small step...” today is the 40th anniversary of the first landing of humans on the moon! The Howdy Party will have some surprises. Maybe one will commemorate the landing.

A meeting to review the status of the Karst Information Portal and to plan future activities will be held from 1800 - 1900 (6:00 - 7:00) in MS106

Dining Hall Hours: Breakfast - 6:30 - 9:30 - $7.00 per plate Lunch - 11:00 - 14:00 (2:00) - $8.00 per plate Dinner - 17:00 (5:00) - 19:00 (7:00) - $9.00 per

plate To save some cash on campus you can always purchase a meal ticket. The tickets are $70.00 - this allows you 10 meals at the dining hall. These tickets can be purchased at the Sodexo office next to the

dining hall. These tickets are for 10 meals, not 10 days worth of meals.

Todays lunch includes the deli bar, the salad bar, hot dog bar, hamburgers, french fries, King Ranch chicken, green beans, mashed potatoes and rolls

The Dining Hall will be closed tonight. The meal at the Howdy Party will include: BBQ chicken, S smoked brisket, vegan/vegetarian selections, Kosher (pre-packaged), a variety of salads, bread, Pinto beans, Bluebell Ice Cream cups, soft drinks and Shiner beer.

Many trips will require you to supply your own lunch. You may order a boxed lunch from Sodexo for your trip for $7.00. You must have your boxed lunch order placed the day before your trip by 19:00 (7:00 pm) See the Sodexo office to place your order. Additional lunches requested the day of the trip will not be possible!

Registration will be open 24 hours until tonight just before the Howdy Party

On the Horizon, your daily newsletter, can be picked up in the Information Room, at the cafeteria on campus, and at Weir Hall.

Book signings - these are in Weir on the first floor outside the bookstores.

Today: 11:00 - 13:00 Lois Manno - Visions

Underground

Tuesday: 11:30 - 13:00 Bill Steele Huautla

11:00 - 13:00 - Steffi Schwabe - Living In

Darkness

14:00 - 16:00 - Dave Bunnell - Caves of Fire

16:30 - 18:00 - Bill Steele - Huautla

Session Chairmen should pick up certificates at Registration to give to their presenters. Certificates of Participation will also be available late in the week. See Roy Jameson at Registration.

JOCKS Editors meeting Tuesday 16:00 - 17:40 (4:00 - 5:40) in CH 213.

Remember to make your caving trip reservations before Registration closes - the day before the trip. Also remember that Texas caves are warm, about 20C (70)F) so do not wear coveralls or cave suits. Blue jeans and T-shirts are fine.

Monday - July 20, 2009



SpeleMedia schedule in CAC Theater. All show times are approximate. There are no intermissions except for the lunch break. Please enter and leave the theater discretely between programs. Today: 8:00 Caves, Caves, Caves - video

10:00 Beautes Souterraines - 3-D

10:15 Extrodinary Lechuguilla Cave - 3-D

10:25 Heaven and Earth - multi-media

10:35 Memoire des Grottes - video

11:30 Her fatherʼs Worst Nightmare - video

13:00 Lechuguilla Cave: Favorite Places 3-D

13:08 Mammoth Cave, A Place to Explore 3-D

13:18 Caving in TAG - 3-D

13:35 Sima de la Cornisa - multi-media

13:50 LʼAbisso (The Abyss) - video

15:00 Caves of Hungary and Abroad - 3D

15:13 Cave Art - 3-D

15:30 Great Cave of the Xe Bang Fai multi-media

15:45 Error of Youth - multi-media

16:00 The Discovery of Grand Caverns video

16:25 Exploration of Snowy River - video

The James G. Mitchell Award may be made for the best scientific paper presented at any of the sessions of the annual convention by a member (or members) of the National Speleological Society, age 25 or younger. Eligible presenters should submit their name, NSS number, paper title with the scheduled session and time to Mike Backe. Please e-mail information to [email protected] or leave a note for the Mitchell Award at Registration.

Grant Money Available. The National Speleological Foundation offers grants for cave and karst related projects, including those for research, education, acquisitions, and exploration. Learn how to apply at the NSF meeting on Thursday at 2:00 p.m. in room CH112. Increase your chances of a successful application by making a 5 minute presentation. Email or call to get on the agenda. [email protected]. or (267) 968-1389.

More information at www.speleofoundation.org.



Beyond the Horizon

The Texas Cave Conservancy will have several caves available to visit all week. The caves range from Avery Ranch Cave, a small educational show cave with lights and a deck to several tough crawlway caves. Both vertical and horizontal caves will be available. The deepest pit is around 55 ft. and the longest cave crawl is over a mile long. These caves are in the Austin-Cedar Park area. Mike Walsh, TCC president, will be at the TCC table in the sales room Monday and Tuesday around noon to provide additional information. There will be no fee to any of the Texas Caves. Remember to soak in the pool and river to stay cool and out of First Aid. Welcome to Texas you all!

The NSS Bookstore announces MYSTERY MONDAY - find the hidden deals on NSS publications. This promo will run until all the discounted books are found.

Happy 25th anniversary Dave and Mary Sue Socky! (7-14). Wishing everyone many more years underground

All Terminal Syphons T-shirts are in - only $10. Find Mike Taylor at the Howdy Party or come to the bandʼs annual practice Wednesday night to claim your piece of caving rock and roll history.

Fall VAR: September 25-27, 2009, Battle of Cedar Creek Campground, Middleton, VA. See a BAT to pre-register! Thanks

Do you have a good five-minute talk or presentation? Consider bringing it to Lightning Talks on Friday afternoon.

The Texas Cave Conservancy white bat Tshirts will be available at Merci Raines table located in her own sales room. The T-shirts are $5 each while the supply lasts.

NSS Raffle - spend $50 or more in the NSS Bookstore and enter to win a $100 gift certificate to

Monday - July 20, 2009 the NSS Bookstore. Drawng will be held Friday night at the banquet.

Speleo Projects sponsors 1 (one) daily drawing Monday - Friday, for a FREE 2010 Caving Calendar + a surprise gift from Europe. Come to Weir 110 to enter. Winners must collect their prizes in person.

All NSS Grottos who brought their publications for exchange with the Swiss Speleological Society should bring them to the Speleo Projects stand in Weir 110. Anyone else who wishes to make an exchange should come to see if the SSS Library needs your publication.



Thoughts For Convention

From Maxine - “Take life with a grain of salt. This works much better if the salt accompanies a Margarita.”

On ! Ho"zon a publication of the National Speleological Society

Tuesday - July 21, 2009

Tonightʼs activities include Open Mike Night at Robbins Lewis Pavilion, CRF, KWI and NCKRI Reception in CAC Ball room, and the bat flight and cave tours. Have fun!

Program Additions and Changes

Addition: prepared (last minute) for the 15th ICS; the first VIRTUAL TOUR of www.petralona-cave (including surroundings and anthropological museum), presented by Nickos Poulianos today in the Cailloux Activity Center, Ballroom 1, 17:00 hours. For further information see also in G. Veni et. al., IUS Proceedings, p.1717, July, 2009

Lava Caves Symposium has been moved from MS143 to CAC Ballroom 1 on Saturday.

The trip WD-103 entitled “Canoeing, Kayaking, and Tubing the Guadeloupe River” has some changes:

First, it is going to be the South Llano River, not the Guadeloupe.

Second, everyone needs to be at the buses at 7:30 am on Wednesday, July 22.

Third, we will be using canoes and kayaks but not tubes.

Schedule Change - Tlaloc 2008 Exploracion Mexico - Italia, Hueytamalco, Puebla, Mexico by J. Dominguez-Navarro, (see p.69, posters for abstract) Thursday at 12:10 in Dietert Auditorium.

General Exploration 1 this afternoon in Dietert Auditorium. The program schedule correctly lists the location but the program text incorrectly places it in Diertert Classroom.

Cave Ballad Listening Session - time change. New time - today 13:00 - 14:00 in CH219. This session will be repeated Friday 13:00 - 14:00 in CH112.

Important time change - Seminole Canyon Rock Art - Wednesday trip - meet at the bus at 05:00 (5:00 am). We must leave as early as possible. For more information see trip description in the Information Room across from Registration.

Convention Announcements

Tonightʼs bat flight trip leaves promptly at 1700 (5:00) for James River Bat Cave.

Representatives of the proposed HQ site will be present. Please attend. Bill Tozer

UIS Awards at the Congress - The UIS gives 3 awards during each ICS that will be presented at the ICS banquet on Saturday evening. • Best book about caves in the last 4 years • Most significant discovery in the last 4 years •Best poster in the poster sessions See Julia James of Australia before Friday evening.

USF History of Speleology Commission, Commission pour lʼhisorire de la speleologie, President Karl Mais, Austria (Stephen Kenpe presiding) Thursday Lunch in MC143.

UIS delegates submit a press release to your home media. Contact Jay Jordan for draft press release on the 15th ICS.

Dining Hall Menu:

Todays lunch includes the deli bar, the salad bar, hot dog bar, hamburgers, french fries, tacos, refried beans, Spanish rice, rolls

Dinner features meat lasagna, vegetarian lasagna, broccoli Parmesan, garlic breadsticks and major pasta bar

Wednesday lunch will be in the Dining Hall but will be a create your own deli style buffet, not a prepared meal line.

Cartographic Salon Judges Meeting today at 1900 (7:00) in Logan Library. All judges expected to attend. All judging forms must be turned in to Jim Kennedy by that time.

Book signings - these are in Weir on the first floor outside the bookstores. Today: 11:30 - 13:00 - Bill Steele - Huautla

11:00 - 13:00 - Steffi Schwabe - Living In

Darkness

13:00 - 15:00 - Jean Gurney - The G u r n e y

Guide to American Caves

14:00 - 16:00 - Dave Bunnell - Caves of Fire

16:30 - 18:00 - Bill Steele - Huautla

For the First time ever you can vote for your favorite map in the Cartographic Salon. Ballots by the green box by the maps in Logan Library.

NSS headquarters open forum (1600 - 1740 - 4:00 5:40 after COG). The forum is for the membership. Your voice is important.

SpeleoOlympics! Come participate in the various contests; great prizes!!! Thursday you can participate in the rope climbing, cable ladder climb and the survey contest. Also put together an international team of cavers and compete for the team championships (more prizes).

Tuesday - July 21, 2009

SpeleMedia schedule in CAC Theater. All show times are approximate. There are no intermissions except for the lunch break. Please enter and leave the theater discretely between programs. Today:

0800 Beautes Souterraines - 3-D

0815 Extraordinary Lechuguilla Cave -

3-D

0825 Star of Darkness - multimedia

0829 Water, Critters, and Caves - video

0836 Underground West Virginia - video

0846 Canyoning in Samothraki - video

0930 Music Videos for Cavers - video

1000 Lechuguilla Cave: Favorite Places

3-D

1008 Mammoth Cave, a Place to Explore

3-D

1018 Ice Caves on Visevnik - multimedia

1 0 2 0 Ty r o l e a n N e w Wo r l d R e c o r d 2 0 0 8

video

1100 Waterʼs Journey - video

1300 Caving in TAG - 3-D

1308 Lava Caves of Hawaii - 3-D

1316 Ice Caves on Visevnik - multimedia

1325 Cabo Espichel - video

1400 A Travers la Pierre - video

1500 White Cat Cave - video

Session Chairs should pick up certificates at Registration to give to their presenters. Certificates of Participation will also be available late in the week. See Roy Jameson at Registration.

Are you staying in the dorm or apartment on campus? Do you need to check out before Sunday, July 26? Please schedule a room inspection to avoid any delay in your departure. The inspection is necessary for your room deposit refund.

A notebook with forms to schedule an early checkout room inspection is located on a table at Information. Please take a minute to complete the short form with your hall, room number, bed, name and date/time you will

be vacating your room. Thanks







Beyond the Horizon

Missing book - Swildonʼs Hole taken from under table at Registration, please return or pay for at SpeleoProjects in Weir 110.

UIS delegates - submit a press release to your home media. Contact Jay Jordan for draft press release on the

15th ICS.

Tantalizing Tuesday at the NSS Bookstore! Most Speleo Digests 25% off.

Lots of cool, short presentations. Bring your own talk to participate. Lightning Talks, Friday afternoon.

Harry K. Fair - please return to On Rope 1, Inc. regarding your purchase! Very important.

Vermont - 2010 Convention”A Cool Convention” Come “Cavermont” in 2010. Pay us a visit at our booth just outside Registration in CAC. Lots of Vermont brochures, attractions and maps. Win a Vermont Teddy Bear Company caver bear! $1.00 raffle ticket.

We need a ride to the San Antonio Rail Station on Monday, 27, July for 2 people. Liz Robinson and Brad Smith, Flato 604. Look for SpongeBob hats.

Looking for 8 volunteer ticket checking people, Thursday Salon Awards Shows. Please contact Cady 540-522-8631.

Nittany Grotto Reunion meeting. NOTE: Meeting tonight 17:40 - 19:00 (new time) in front of Cailloux Activity Center. So far more than 21 grotto members here.

ICS/NSS postal cancellations! July 20, 2009, United States Postal Service (USPS) cancellations on special Congress envelopes. Available at Emilyʼs Speleobooks, NS Bookstore, Inner Realm and Gordon and Judyʼs Memorabilia Shop. Special price $2.00 a real collectable!

The Gypsy Underground Grotto invites cavers to join our traveling internet grotto at $1.00 for a lifetime membership. All you need is an internet address and willingness to join our one list. Meet the Gypsy Pres. “Hank” today and Thursday morning, 9:30 - 10:30 in and around the Lionʼs Den area to sign up.

Hear ye, hear ye! Wyandotte Cave is closed! All souvenir items have prices slashed. Will be collectorʼs items. Come visit Weir Hall, entrance level - Gordon and Judyʼs Memorabilia Shop.

Staying in Town Wednesday? Speleobooks will be open all day in Weir.

West Virginia Cave Conservancy ephemera. Go to Consignment Sales. Glow-in-the-dark “Save the Caves” wrist bands $3.00. Colorful patches, $5.00. Cave preserve signs, $5.00.

Ramen Noodle Wrestling 21:00 (9:00 p.m.) in the creek bed below Robbins-Lewis Pavilion.

Tuesday - July 21, 2009

Are you in any? ICS?NSS photos loaded daily at www.Flickr.com/caverscott.

Happy anniversary Harold Pruitt. Your loving Sweetie!

Help with the Cure for WNS - T-shirts in Consignment Sales go to support WNS research.

Mountain Biking in Colorado If you are coming to the CO Convention, you will be near Fruita, CO - a true mountain biking mecca. Please contact Barbara amEnde if you are interested. Iʼm gathering skill level interest to know how to organize for beginners to experts.

The Texas Cave Conservancy has several caves available to visit all week. These caves are in the AustinCedar Park area. Mike Walsh, TCC president, will be at the TCC table in the sales room today around noon to provide additional information. There will be no fee to visit any of these Texas Caves.

The Shadow people will hold an informal organizational meeting tonight for any interested parties. We will be channeling through the Big Box on the west side of the P bridge.

Looking for someone from Thailand. Iʼm planning a trip next year to Lei for 6 weeks. Iʼm staying in the PG Dorms, room 617A, my name is Sal Maniace and go by the nickname Brooklyn. Famous cave ballads now on DVD! Hear “Plastic Justrite” and other songs from Barbara MacLeod on a new video for sale by Texas Cave Management Association at Texas Sales/Weir and in Consignment Sales.

See the worldʼs largest collection of vertical hardware in the Sarle-Phillips room, Logan Library, throughout the Congress.





On ! Ho"zon a publication of the National Speleological Society

Wednesday - July 23, 2009

Are you field tripping today? Donʼt forget the Auction tonight at Dietert Auditorium . Something for everyone, and the money raised goes for great caving causes!

And, go to the Robbins-Lewis Pavilion and enjoy the music of The Terminal Syphons.

Program Additions and Changes

Change - The Lava Cave Symposium previously scheduled for Saturday morning in MC143 has been moved to CAC Ballroom 1.

Error in Program - p. 106 - 107 Friday schedule - should read: Evening field trip: Bat flight (1700-2400). 1800 - 2300 is wrong!

Canceled - General Exploration 2: Thursday 0830-0850 Ged Campion. The Teng Long Don System and the caves and Karst features of Lichuan County, Hubei Province, southwest China.

Change - The paper, Study of the localization of the pits in the Plateau of Jurd Afqa (Mount Lebanon) using a geographical information system (GIS) by Pierre-Charles Gerard and Badr Jabbour-Gedeon, has been moved from the Thursday morning Cave and Karst Hydrology 1 session to the Thursday morning poster session.

Change - The Paper, Monitoring dripwater chemistry in El Refugio Cave (southern Spain) as a contribution to understanding infiltration and speleogenic processes in karst aquifers, by M. B. Mudarra, B. Andreo, I. J. Fairchild, J. A Barbera, and I. Vadillo, will not be presented at this morningʼs poster session but orally in the Cave and Karst Hydrology 1 Session CAC Ballroom 3 from 0950 - 1010.

Lava Caves Symposium has been moved from MS143 to CAC Ballroom 1 on Saturday.

Schedule Change - Tlaloc 2008 Exploracion - Mexico Italia, Hueytamalco, Puebla, Mexico by J. Dominguez-Navarro, (see p.69, posters for abstract) Thursday at 12:10 in Dietert Auditorium.

Important time change - Seminole Canyon Rock Art Wednesday trip - meet at the bus at 05:00 (5:00 am). We must leave as early as possible. For more information see trip description in the Information Room across from Registration.

White Nose Syndrome Meeting - Program detail addition. Presentations Thursday 1400 - 1740 in Dietert Auditorium. Eminent guest panelists: Dr. Thomas M. Kunz, Hazel A. Barton, Ph.D., Peter Youngbaer, David Waldien, Ph.D., Carol Zokaites, Jeremy T.H. Coleman, Ph.D.and Kevin T. Castle, DVM, MS.

There was a mix-up about the Thursday evening bat flight trips. Tuesday was Frio Bat Cave. Thursday is James River Bat Cave. We apologize for the confusion.



Convention Announcements

The following participants need to visit Registration and pay for the Crlsbad-Kerrville (or other) costs before leaving the Congress: Philippe Audra, Augusto Auler, Jean-Yves Bigot, Laurent Bruxelles, Jose Maria Calaforra-Chordi, Jean-Claude dʼAntoniNobecourt, David K. De Roest, Jo DeWaele, Amos Frumkin, Jearald J. Johnson, Fred Luiszer, Rita de Cassio Medeiros Surrage, Michael Queen, Hans Stunzi, Arjan van Waardenburg, Nthalie Vanara, Claudia Vilela, Mirjam Widmer, Andres Wildberger, and Leda A. Zogbi.

The Board of Governors meeting on Friday will begin at 9:00 a.m., room MC138.

Photo Salon awards will not be presented at the second Salon showing. Winners should see their Salon Chairs to pick up awards.

Airport Schedule for those individuals who made reservations with the Airport Committee prior to the June 7, 2009 deadline will be posted Thursday early afternoon (1300). Participants names and which shuttle they are to ride will be posted inside the Information Room on the Airport Information board.

Weʼve talked to Sodexo about the congestion in the Snack Bar. We suggest eating meals in the Dining Hall as a first choice. It is designed for bigger crowds. The Snack Bar is best used for snacks and when the dining Hall is closed or crowded. Thank you for your patience.

Protection and Management Department - Meeting of the protection Commission Thursday, 23, July 1300-1400 Ballroom 3 in CAC

Tonightʼs bat flight trip leaves promptly at 1700 (5:00).

UIS Awards at the Congress - The UIS gives 3 awards during each ICS that will be presented at the ICS banquet on Saturday evening. • Best book about caves in the last 4 years • Most significant discovery in the last 4 years •Best poster in the poster sessions See Julia James of Australia before Friday evening.

UIS History of Speleology Commission, Commission pour lʼhisorire de la speleologie, President Karl Mais, Austria (Stephen Kenpe presiding) Thursday Lunch in MC143.

UIS delegates submit a press release to your home media. Contact Jay Jordan for draft press release on the 15th ICS.

Dining Hall Menu:

Today lunch is not being served because of field trips.

Dinner features quesadilla bar, beef and chicken fajitas, beans, rice, and condiments Wednesday lunch will be in the Dining Hall but will be a create your own deli style buffet, not a prepared meal line.

Wednesday - July 23, 2009

SpeleMedia schedule in CAC Theater. All show times are approximate. There are no intermissions except for the lunch break. Please enter and leave the theater discretely between programs. Bonus 3-D shows today.

0900 Lechuguilla Cave: Favorite Places

0910 Caving in TAG

0920 Ice Caves

0940 Mammoth Cave

0955 Lava Caves of Hawaii

1005 Extraordinary Lechuguilla Cave

1020 Cave Art

1030 Caves of Hungary

1045 Asparagus Cave, France

1055 Beautes Souterraines Caves

1115 Thermal Karst of Budapest

1130 Lechuguilla Cave (for the general public)

For the First time ever you can vote for your favorite map in the Cartographic Salon. Ballots by the green box by the maps in Logan Library. *** SpeleoOlympics! Come participate in the various contests; great prizes!!! Thursday you can participate in the rope climbing, cable ladder climb and the survey contest. Also put together an international team of cavers and compete for the team championships (more prizes). .

Session Chairs should pick up certificates at Registration to give to their presenters. Certificates of Participation will also be available late in the week. See Roy Jameson at Registration.

Are you staying in the dorm or apartment on campus? Do you need to check out before Sunday, July 26? Please schedule a room inspection to avoid any delay in your departure. The inspection is necessary for your room deposit refund.

A notebook with forms to schedule an early checkout room inspection is located on a table at Information. Please take a minute to complete the short form with your hall, room number, bed, name and date/time you will be vacating your room. Thanks

Grant Money Available. The National Speleological Foundation offers grants for cave and karst related projects, including for research, education, acquisitions, and exploration. Learn how to apply at the NSF meeting on Thursday at 1400 (2:00) in room CH112. Increase your chances of a successful application by making a 5-minute presentation. Email or call to get on the agenda: [email protected] or 267-968-1389.

The James G. Mitchell Award may be made for the best scientific paper presented at any of the sessions of the annual convention by a member (or members) of the NAtional Speleological Society age 25 or younger. Eligible presenters should submit their name, NSS number, paper title with the scheduled session time to Mike Backe. Please Email

information to [email protected] or leave a note for the Mitchell Award at Registration.

All participants in the Vertical Workshop need to bring a helmet, seat harness, alocking carabiner, and gloves. Students should also bring a lunch and bottled water. Other equipment will be provided for student use. This intense workshop will give the novice climber exposure to different systems, but is not intended as a complete training course. Students will have the opportunity to use different systems in a controlled environment, under instructor supervision. All participants in the Vertical Workshop need to be at the workshop site at 11:00 am. to check in with registration coordinator Lynn. Fielding. The workshop will be held in the gym.

Notice, notice, notice Vertical Contest Awards and prizes will be given out in the gym Thursday at 4:30 after the Vertical Workshop. Please be there on time. If you canʼt be there, have someone pick up your certificate or prize.

Hotel shuttles do not run continuously. 0630 - 09-30 , 1145 - 1345 (1:45) and 1600 - 2200 (4:00 - 10:00)

Reminder: All ICS participants receive free entry to the self guided tours at Carlsbad Caverns National Park this week and next. (through Aug. 3, 2009) Just show your ICS badge at the fee station ro receive your free pass.

Post - ICS camp #53 High Guadalupes, New Mexico. Participants, please check your Email for information or meet with Pat Seiser (aka Cave Wench) regarding cave trips and rides from ICS or El Paso to Carlsbad, NM.

There will be a lap-top demonstration showing the interactive features of the Salts Cave ma at 12;30 on Thursday in the Cartographic Salon area of the library.

Wine tour trip has added a van. Sign up for the trip at Registration.





Beyond the Horizon



Speleo Projects sponsors 1 daily drawing for a FREE 2010 CAVING CALENDAR + a surprise gift from Europe! Come to Weir 110 to enter. Winners must collect their prizes in person.

Consignment Sales needs a volunteer for Thursday morning. If no one volunteers, it will be closed that morning.

Cavelegs kneepads at Consignment Sales in Moody Science Bldg. Come check them out.

Please remember to clean your own tables in the dining hall.

You will never guess whoʼs going to be 60 at next years convention. She sure doesnʼt look it. Come to Vermont to find out who our mystery birthday gal is.

Enchanted Rock and Fredericksburg - NOW $15.00 - limit of 13. Sign up now in Registration.

Wednesday - July 23, 2009

Many thanks to the person(s) who placed the matching set of big white rocks in my tent so it wouldnʼt blow over AGAIN! They are useful and ornamental.

Thank you P. Hertel, for everything, youʼre the best! L. Bencesi

Adopt a Fricks Cave bat for just $10 at the SCCI booth.

Have you seen my Woody? Woody the wooden caver (chainsaw carving) was sold at auction in Florida. If you know who purchased it, please contact Mike Frazier..

Bill Halliday (now age 83) is breaking up his collection of cave stamps, cave covers, histric cave photos, etc. See him during the sessions.

Please, return my bat bracelet and a ring found Monday in CAC restroom about 2:30. Put in Lost and Found in the Information Room, Thanks, Elaine

Wine! 2009 ICS special label wine from Becker Vineyards will be on sale in the Cailloux Hall Thursday thru Saturday. What a great way to remember ICS 2009!

Virginia Region - fall meeting is September 25 - 27, 2009. See someone from BATS for more information.

Look for Shirley (the BAT). Sheʼs collecting for the NSS White Nose Syndrome Rapid Response Fund.

Fall VAR! Preregister now see Susi or Meredith from BATS.

Win a pottery bat bowl and help fund WNS research. Raffle tickets $1.00 each at the NSS Bookstore. Raffle will be at the Friday night banquet.

Chris Howe call James Jasek 245-744-9057 cell. Want you to autograph your book, Thank you.

After you cave trip donʼt forget to rock out with Syphons tonight. Special edition ICS Syphons T-shirts will be available near the stage, $10 while they last.

Happy Birthday Roger Brown! Another one celebrated with the whole caving community - U.S. and world wide. Love CB

Do you have a good 5-minute talk or presentation? Bring it to Lightning Talks Friday afternoon

Hear Barbara McLeods cave ballads, then buy he concert video. This famous artistʼs DVD is on sale as a fund-raiser for Texas Cave Management Association. Find it at TCMA/Texas Sales in Weir or at Consignment Sales in Moody Science Bldg.

All NSS Grottoes who brought their publications for exchange with the Swiss Speleological Society should bring them to the Speleo Projects room, Weir110. Anyone else who wishes to make an exchange should come to see if the SSS needs your publication.

Attention SpeleoArtists!! The 2012 NSS Convention is having a logo contest. Submissions due by December 21, 2009! Info at Fine Arts Salon and in Loud Camping at the Zoo!!

Cave photostamps - Walgreen Drugs will print your ICS or favorite cave photo as a U.S. postage stamp (face value $0.44) in sheets of 20 @ $18.00. Bill Halliday has a few of the “Butterfly” at the Caverns of Sonora for $1.95 each if you donʼt want to wait 2 weeks.

Missing book - Swildonʼs Hole taken from under table at Registration, please return or pay for at Speleo Projects in Weir 110.

***Looking for someone from Thailand. Iʼm planning a trip next year to Lei for 6 weeks. Iʼm staying in the PG Dorms, room 617A, my name is Sal Maniace and go by the nickname Brooklyn.

***Famous cave ballads now on DVD! Hear “Plastic Justrite” and other songs from Barbara MacLeod on a new video for sale by Texas Cave Management Association at Texas Sales/Weir and in Consignment Sales.

See the worldʼs largest collection of vertical hardware in the Sarle-Phillips room, Logan Library, throughout the Congress.

UIS delegates - submit a press release to your home media. Contact Jay Jordan for draft press release on the 15th ICS.

Anyone interested in “Myst” online, URU Live” contact Brad Smith - SpongeBob hat guy.

Lots of cool, short presentations. Bring your own talk to participate. Lightning Talks, Friday afternoon.

Vermont - 2010 Convention” A Cool Convention” - Come “Cavermont” in 2010. Pay us a visit at our booth just outside Registration in CAC. Lots of Vermont brochures, attractions and maps. Win a Vermont Teddy Bear Company caver bear! $1.00 raffle ticket.

We need a ride to the San Antonio Rail Station on Monday, 27, July for 2 people. Liz Robinson and Brad Smith, Flato 604. Look for SpongeBob hats.

Looking for 8 volunteer ticket checking people, Thursday Salon Awards Shows. Please contact Cady 540-522-8631.

ICS/NSS postal cancellations! July 20, 2009, United States Postal Service (USPS) cancellations on special Congress envelopes. Available at Emilyʼs Speleobooks, NS Bookstore, Inner Realm and Gordon and Judyʼs Memorabilia Shop. Special price $2.00 a real collectable!

The Gypsy Underground Grotto invites cavers to join our traveling internet grotto at $1.00 for a lifetime membership. All you need is an internet address and willingness to join our one list. Meet the Gypsy Pres. “Hank” Thursday morning, 9:30 10:30 in and around the Lionʼs Den area to sign up.

Staying in Town Wednesday? Speleobooks will be open all day in Weir.

West Virginia Cave Conservancy ephemera. Go to Consignment Sales. Glow-in-the-dark “Save the Caves” wrist bands $3.00. Colorful patches, $5.00. Cave preserve signs, $5.00.

Are you in any? ICS?NSS photos loaded daily at www.Flickr.com/caverscott.

Help with the Cure for WNS - T-shirts in Consignment Sales go to support WNS research.

Mountain Biking in Colorado If you are coming to the CO Convention, you will be near Fruita, CO - a true mountain biking mecca. Please contact Barbara amEnde if you are interested.

Wednesday - July 23, 2009 Iʼm gathering skill level interest to know how to organize for beginners to experts.

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Please help the staff keep the campground (and campus) clean and help recycle waste. Put trash in the large roll off bin and items that can be recycled in the marked containers.

Tonight is the night for the Awards and Photo Salon. There are two showings. Blue tickets for the early show at 1630 (4:30) and white tickets at 2030 (8:30). These salons will be held at the Shriner Auditorium located 1 mile northwest of campus on Highway 27. Donʼt forget your name tag and ticket. Parking is limited and we suggest taking an ICS bus from Registration. Buses leave for the 4:30 (blue) showing starting at 3:30, and returning between 7:30 and 8:30. Buses will leave for the second (white) starting at 7:30 and returning after the show is over.

There are also the evening field trips that will depart from the parking lot at 5:00 and return around midnight.

Program Additions and Changes

NAME TAGS must be worn at all times!!! You will be escorted off campus, otherwise.

THERE WILL BE A MEETING OF THE UIS BUREAU WITH COUNTRY DELEGATES THIS MORNING AT 800 IN CAC BALLROOM 2.

Speleology for Cavers has moved next door from Cilloux Hall 218 to Cailloux Hall 219. It is still scheduled to run all day Friday.

Schedule change - Tlaloc 2008 Exploracion - Mexico Italia, Hueytamalco, Puebla, Mexico by Dominguez-Navarro, (see p.69, posters for abstract) is today at 1210 in Dietert Auditorium.

Schedule change - The paper Monitoring Dripwater chemistry in ElRefugio Cave (southern Spain) as a contribution to understanding infiltration and speleogenic processes in karts aquifers, by M.B. Mudarra, B. Andreo, I.J. Fairchild, J.A. Barbera, and I. Vadillo, will not be presented at this morningʼs poster session but orally in Cave and Karst Hydrology 1 Session, CAC Ballroom 3 from 0950 - 1010.

A change in the order of the papers in the Evolution and Ecology of Salamanders Symposium this afternoon. Details are posted outside room MC163 (Niemiller and Miller will be moved to the first slot; McDermold and Glusenkamp during the break).

Presentation of Candidature for 16th ICS BRNO 2013 will be this morning in Diert Auditorium as a last minute presentation at 1210-1230.

Digging Section Meeting will meet Friday at 800 (not 730) at Dietert Auditorium in CH213. At 1030 we will have digging reports (dig at Snowy River) and talk about techniques. Come to our informal discussions and tell us about your dig. Contact Kathy Peerman if you wish to present on Friday.

Error in Program - p. 106 - 107 Friday schedule - should read: Evening field trip: Bat flight (1700-2400). 1800 - 2300 is wrong!

Canceled - General Exploration 2: today 0830-0850 Ged Campion. The Teng Long Don System and the caves and Karst features of Lichuan County, Hubei Province, southwest China.

Change - The paper, Study of the localization of the pits in the Plateau of Jurd Afqa (Mount Lebanon) using a geographical information system (GIS) by Pierre-Charles Gerard and Badr Jabbour-Gedeon, has been moved from the this morningʼs Cave and Karst Hydrology 1 session to the this morningʼs poster session.

The IUCN - WCPA Caves and Karst Taskforce gathering will be Saturday at 0800 in MS163 (listed as International Union of Conservation of Nature Biospheres Business Meeting)

Lava Caves Symposium has been moved from MS143 to CAC Ballroom 1 on Saturday.

Schedule Change - Tlaloc 2008 Exploracion - Mexico Italia, Hueytamalco, Puebla, Mexico by J. Dominguez-Navarro, (see p.69, posters for abstract) Today at 12:10 in Dietert Auditorium.

White Nose Syndrome Meeting - Program detail addition. Presentations oday 1400 - 1740 in Dietert Auditorium. Eminent guest panelists: Dr. Thomas M. Kunz, Hazel A. Barton, Ph.D., Peter Youngbaer, David Waldien, Ph.D., Carol Zokaites, Jeremy T.H. Coleman, Ph.D.and Kevin T. Castle, DVM, MS.



Convention Announcements

Transportation to the Banquets! The banquets will be held at the Don Strange Ranch. (we will provide maps). All buses and vans will be running, the first departing campus at 5:15. Private vehicles can drive there (map provided). Carpool as much as possible. Dress cool and get ready to play washers, pitch horseshoes and feed the longhorn cattle! Special needs please come by the Information table and leave your phone number. Dinner starts at 7:00 p.m.

Photo Salon awards will not be presented at the second Salon showing. Winners should see their Salon Chairs to pick up awards.

The Board of Governors meeting on Friday will begin at 9:00 a.m., room MC138.

The following participants need to visit Registration and pay for the Carlsbad-Kerrville (or other) costs before leaving the Congress: Philippe Audra, Augusto Auler, Jean-Yves Bigot, Laurent Bruxelles, Jose Maria Calaforra-Chordi, Jean-Claude dʼAntoni-Nobecourt, David K. De Roest, Jo DeWaele, Amos Frumkin, Jearald J. Johnson, Fred Luiszer, Rita de Cassio Medeiros Surrage, Michael Queen, Hans Stunzi, Arjan van Waardenburg, Nthalie Vanara, Claudia Vilela, Mirjam Widmer, Andres Wildberger, and Leda A. Zogbi.

Questions may be submitted in advance for the White Nose Syndrome Discussion held in Dietert Auditorium this afternoon. Pick up a card to submit your questions at Speleobooks in Weir 120. Return your questions ther or to the auditorium during the session. All questions must be in writing. Please remember to clean your own table in the Dining Hall.

There will be a laptop demonstration showing the interactive features of the Salts Cave map at 12;30todayin the Cartographic Salon area of the library.

Cartographic salon critique session is open to everyone. 1400 Friday in Logan Library. Salon winners should pick up awards then. Maps will remain up through Saturday.

Underground gps: cave survey revolution, just walk though a cave and track our position every 5 seconds, Interested? Wenga Jennin Friday, 11:10, room MC143.

Lightning topics in Survey techniques, Friday 11:30 1:30 No survey workshop this year (sorry too many things to do). Instead we are presenting a session in new survey techniques. Bring your new gear and gadgets. Come to give a talk or just to listen. Pack a lunch and come to M s212/211 for an informative session. Pat Kambesis and Howard Kalnitz.

Airport Schedule for those individuals who made reservations with the Airport Committee before the June 7, 2009 deadline will be posted Thursday early afternoon (1300). Participants names and which shuttle they are to ride will be posted inside the Information Room on the Airport Information board.

Protection and Management Department - Meeting of the protection Commission today, 23, July 1300-1400 Ballroom 3 in CAC

Tonightʼs bat flight trip to James Rive Cave leaves promptly at 1700 (5:00).

UIS History of Speleology Commission, Commission pour lʼhisorire de la speleologie, President Karl Mais, Austria (Stephen Kenpe presiding) today - Lunch in MC143.

UIS Physical Chemistry and Hydrology Commission meets Saturday in CAC Ballroom 3 starting at 1230.

Thursday - July 21, 2009 Dining Hall Menu:

Todayʼs lunch will include the deli bar, salad bar, baked potato bar, hamburgers, french fries, Shepherdʼs Pie ,carrots, new potatoes and rolls.

Dinner: Salad bar, deli bar, Grill Line, desert bar, blackened chicken breast, red beans and rice, okr and tomatoes, sausage gumbo on rice.

Book Signings these are in Weir outside the bookstores.

Today: 12:00-14:00-Art and Peg Palmer Caves of the

U.S.

SpeleMedia schedule in CAC Theater. All show times are approximate. There are no intermissions except for the lunch break. Please enter and leave the theater discretely between programs. Today.

0800 Caves of Hungary and Abroad - 3-D

0813 Cave Art - 3-D

0827 Ezellʼs Cave - video

0907 Time - video

1000 Caving in Tag - 3-D

1008 Lava Cave of Hawaii - 3-D

1017 Caves of Hungary and Abroad - 3-D

1030 Beneath the Broken Earth - video

1050 Ice Island - video

1300 Lechuguilla Cave: Favorite Places - 3-D

1308 Mammoth Cve: A Place to Explore - 3-D

1318 Caving in TAG - 3-D

1325 Le Mystere de la Baleine - video

1420 Tyrolean New World Record 2008 - Video

1500 Beautes Souterraines - 3-D

1515 Extraordinary Lechuguilla Cave- 3-D

1525 Lava Caves of Hawaii- 3-D

1530 Sima de la Cornisa- - multimedia

1545 Great Cave of Xe Bang Fai - multimedia

1600 Kawachi - video

A team of inspectors will be available Sunday, July 26 and Monday morning, July 27. Find the inspector at your hall and get room inspected. If you pass inspection, your university inspector will hand you a signed deposit refund form. As you leave Schriner University, stop at Registration, turn in your key and the signed form and receive your $50 deposit.

If you fail inspection (the room is damaged or excessively dirty, linens are missing or key is missing), the room inspector will keep the deposit refund form and collect your key. There will be no $50 refund at Registration for you.

Early checkout is available by appointment. Schedule this by filling out the form in the Information room. Every effort will be made to inspect you room at that time.

Grant Money Available. The National Speleological Foundation offers grants for cave and karst related projects, including for research, education, acquisitions, and exploration. Learn how to apply at the NSF meeting on Thursday at 1400 (2:00) in room CH112. Increase your chances of a successful application by making a 5-minute presentation. Email or call to get on the agenda: [email protected] or 267-968-1389.

UIS Awards at the Congress - The UIS gives 3 awards during each ICS that will be presented at the ICS banquet on Saturday evening. • Best book about caves in the last 4 years • Most significant discovery in the last 4 years • Best poster in the poster sessions See Julia James of Australia before Friday evening.

The James G. Mitchell Award may be made for the best scientific paper presented at any of the sessions of the annual convention by a member (or members) of the National Speleological Society age 25 or younger. Eligible presenters should submit their name, NSS number, paper title with the scheduled session time to Mike Backe. Please Email information to [email protected] or leave a note for the Mitchell Award at Registration.

All participants in the Vertical Workshop need to bring a helmet, seat harness, a locking carabiner, and gloves. Students should also bring a lunch and bottled water. Other equipment will be provided for student use. This intense workshop will give the novice climber exposure to different systems, but is not intended as a complete training course. Students will have the opportunity to use different systems in a controlled environment, under instructor supervision. All participants in this workshop need to be at the workshop site in the gym at 11:00 am. to check in with registration coordinator Lynn. Fielding.

Notice, notice, notice Vertical Contest Awards and prizes will be given out in the gym today at 4:30 after the Vertical Workshop. Please be there on time. If you canʼt be there, have someone pick up your certificate or prize.

Reminder: All ICS participants receive free entry to the self guided tours at Carlsbad Caverns National Park this week and next. (through August 3, 2009). Just show your ICS badge at the fee station to receive your free pass.

Post - ICS camp #53 High Guadalupes, New Mexico. Participants, please check your Email for information or meet with Pat Seiser (aka Cave Wench) regarding cave trips and rides from ICS or El Paso to Carlsbad, NM.

Wine tour trip has added a van. Sign up for the trip at Registration.





Beyond the Horizon

Volunteers are needed to help move vendors and tables out of Weir Hall starting Sunday at noon. We will need to clear the building The elevator is working! See Emily in Weir 120.

Volunteers needed for 2011 NSS Convention in Colorado. A variety of positions are available. Please contact Barbara Smith at [email protected] if interested.

Please join us for the Photo Salon Critique and workshop on Friday at the CAC theater at 1:00 (1300)

Cavers: We appreciate your concerns, thoughts and generosity for Donald Davis. Donald we wish you a speedy recovery. From all your caving friends.

Canadian/Canadien, eh? Group photo - Friday, before the NSS Banquet. Meet in the lobby of CAC at 5:00. Photo de group - vendredi avant NSS Banquest. Recontre dans le hall du Cailloux Centre a 5 p.m.

Come learn about caving in Belize. Cavers and noncaving spouses welcome. The 2010 Xmet Expedition will be February 17 - March 16, 2010. Join us for a week or more. Sketches/mappers needed. Drop in Friday 1230 - 1400 to MC143 (behind the pool and tennis courts) Leaders are David and Eleanor Larson. [email protected].

Free donuts and coffee while they last., this morning on the 3rd floor Weir building. @ Howieʼs Harnesses.

Help fund WNS research. Buy a $1.00 raffle ticket to win a pottery bat bowl. Raffle tickets on sale at NSS Bookstore.

TCC Bat T-shirts available at Merci Raines shop n Weir. Childrenʼs sizes available today. $5 each.

Packing supplies for shipping those heavy books home are available at Registration.

Extra Guide books are available at Registration for $35.00

Michael Kehs woodworks “The Fine Art of Caving” wooden cave related art. Visit us in room 007, ground floor in Weir.

Pre and Post-congress field trip guidebooks are available at Registration. Buy the book for the trip you didnʼt go on or buy the whole set. (If you are on a post-congress trip, you do not need to buy a book. You will receive one on the trip. Peri Franz

Vermont - 2010 Convention “A cool Convention” Preregistration no available at the NSS Bookstore - Register here at the ICS and we will mail you a free “Cavermont” bumper sticker: 2 1/2 x 12” white on green. See samples at our booth just outside Registration in CAC.

Hey Babe - 5 years now and still going strong! Love you! Brandi Rodriguez

Thursday - July 21, 2009

Are you related to the penninsul of Yucatun? Everyone interested in this area can join us Friday at 12:30 inCAC Ballroom 1.

Found - Bag of purchases in Speleo Projects, Weir 110. Identify contents to claim at Speleo Projects.

Daily winners of Speleo Projects drawings: Monday Donna Keeling, Tuesday - Nevin Davis Wednesday - Footleg.

When sandblasters are outlawed, only owtlaws will have sandblasters. Bead boy

1530 feet new highline rope (formerly PMI Canada) $0.55/ft. Deal if you buy all of it. Contact Maureen Handler 423-605-5569.

WNS Decon is easy! 1. Completelly wash your gear. 2. Soak CLEAN gear in disinfectant for 10 minutes. 3. Rinse disinfectant and dry gear.

Cavelegs kneepads at Consignment Sales in Moody Science Bldg. Come check them out.

If someone picked up my small red Swiss army knife, donʼt use the toothpick (I did), the tweezers have blood on them and the blade is tricky to close. OR...you could return it to me. (at First Aid) Stephen Mosberg

See the worldʼs largest collection of vertical hardware in the Sarle-Phillips room, Logan Library, throughout the Congress.

Adopt a Fricks Cave bat for just $10 at the SCCI booth.

Have you seen my Woody? Woody the wooden caver (chainsaw carving) was sold at auction in Florida. If you know who bought it, please contact Mike Frazier.

Bill Halliday (now age 83) is breaking up his collection of cave stamps, cave covers, histric cave photos, etc. See him during the sessions.

Please, return my bat bracelet and a ring found Monday in CAC restroom about 2:30. Put in Lost and Found in the Information Room, Thanks, Elaine

Attention SpeleoArtists!! The 2012 NSS Convention is having a logo contest. Submissions due by December 21, 2009! Info at Fine Arts Salon and in Loud Camping at the Zoo!! Wine! 2009 ICS special label wine from Becker Vineyards will be on sale in the Cailloux Hall today thru Saturday. What a great way to remember ICS 2009!

Look for Shirley (the BAT). Sheʼs collecting for the NSS White Nose Syndrome Rapid Response Fund.

Fall VAR! Pre-register now see Susi or Meredith from BATS.

SWBLF seeks MLNBLM preferably grafitti artists for long rolls across campus. Contact Helene Wielz for nfo.

Chris Howe call James Jasek 245-744-9057 cell. Want you to autograph your book, Thank you.

Do you have a good 5-minute talk or presentation? Bring it to Lightning Talks Friday afternoon

Hear Barbara McLeods cave ballads, then buy he concert video. This famous artistʼs DVD is on sale as a fund-raiser for Texas Cave Management Association. Find it at TCMA/Texas Sales in Weir or at Consignment Sales in Moody Science Bldg.

Missing book - Swildonʼs Hole taken from under table at Registration, please return or pay for at Speleo Projects in Weir 110.

UIS delegates - submit a press release to your home media. Contact Jay Jordan for draft press release on the 15th ICS.

We need a ride to the San Antonio Rail Station on Monday, 27, July for 2 people. Liz Robinson and Brad Smith, Flato 604. Look for SpongeBob hats.

ICS/NSS postal cancellations! July 20, 2009, United States Postal Service (USPS) cancellations on special Congress envelopes. Available at Emilyʼs Speleobooks, NS Bookstore, Inner Realm and Gordon and Judyʼs Memorabilia Shop. Special price $2.00 a real collectable!

West Virginia Cave Conservancy ephemera. Go to Consignment Sales. Glow-in-the-dark “Save the Caves” wrist bands $3.00. Colorful patches, $5.00. Cave preserve signs, $5.00.

Mountain Biking in Colorado If you are coming to the CO Convention, you will be near Fruita, CO - a true mountain biking mecca. Please contact Barbara amEnde if you are interested. Iʼm gathering skill level interest to know how to organize for beginners to experts.

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Donʼt forget your name tag for the Banquet tonight. It is required. Our Banquet will be out at the Don Strange Ranch. We e n c o u r a g e y o u t o u s e t h e Va n s a n d b u s e s provided.Transportation runs continually from 5:00 to 6:45. (1700) For those wishing to drive to the ranch, maps and directions are available in CAC at Registration, the Information room and at the front table. Plan to arrive no later than 6:45. Dress cool, arrive early and join the fun!

There are also the evening field trips that will depart from the parking lot at 5:00 and return around midnight.

Program Additions and Changes

One Way traffic on the campus loop road during ICS week. This is a vital safety issue and is necessary because the buses and vans that carry you to the different activities will block one lane for long periods of time making passing dangerous if traffic was two way. Please notify ICS staff immediately of any damaged signs. Stop and notify drivers who are going the wrong way.

We understand your frustration, but there is a real safety issue on the one-way Acorn Rd., so please drive counterclockwise, as the signs indicate.

Speleology for Cavers has moved next door from Cailloux Hall 218 to Cailloux Hall 219. It is still scheduled to run all day today.

Digging Section Meeting will meet today at 0800 (not 0730) at Cailloux Hall in CH112. At 1030 we will have digging reports (dig at Snowy River) and talk about techniques. Come to our informal discussions and tell us about your dig. Contact Kathy Peerman if you wish to present on Friday.

The IUCN - WCPA Caves and Karst Taskforce gathering will be Saturday at 0800 in MS163 (listed as International Union of Conservation of Nature Biospheres Business Meeting)

Lava Caves Symposium has been moved from MS143 to CAC Ballroom 1 on Saturday.

Convention Announcements NAME TAGS must be worn at all times!!! You will be escorted off campus, otherwise.

Todayʼs Board of Governors meeting will begin at 9:00 a.m., room MC138.

Saturday is the last edition of On the Horizon, if you have any submissions, they must be in by 2:00 (1400) or you will have to wait until the next ICS (4 years) (actually the next NSS Convention in Vermont).

Salon Review and Critique Sessions:

Print Salon awards/prints at Logan Library today at 0900

Cave ballad entries and awards today CH104 at 0900

Spelemedia in Dietert Auditorium today at 0900

Cartography today in Logan Library at 1400 (2:00)

Photography/images today at CAC theater at 1400 (2:00) For those who are picking up prints/awards see the Salon Chair at the above listed sessions. If you are picking up items for someone not at Convention, written permission must be presented. Email is acceptable.

Post Congress Cross Country Excursion will meet after the ICS Closing Ceremony on Sunday, July 26 in the Dietert classroom.

The following participants need to visit Registration and pay for the Carlsbad-Kerrville (or other) costs before leaving the Congress: Philippe Audra, David K. De Roest, Fred Luiszer, Michael Queen, Hans Stunzi, Mirjam Widmer.

Cartographic salon critique session is open to everyone 1400 Friday in Logan Library. Salon winners should pick up awards then. Maps will remain up through Saturday.

International Journal of Speleology meeting in Ballroom 3 at CAC from 12:30 today - everyone is welcome, not just editorial board members.

Field trip #85 - Cenote Karst of the Yucatan Peninsula. All registered participants to gather after the banquet tonight



before leaving the ranch. See you there so that Jim and Trish can answer any questions. Exact time depends on how long the awards ceremony runs.

Certificates are being delivered to Session Chairs just before session begin. Those missing certificates (especially for poster sessions) should leave a note with full name, title, and session name at Registration for processing by Roy Jameson and pick up on Friday or Saturday.

Lightning topics in Survey techniques, today 11:30 - 1:30 No survey workshop this year (sorry too many things to do). Instead we are presenting a session in new survey techniques. Bring your new gear and gadgets. Come to give a talk or just to listen. Pack a lunch and come to MS212/211 for an informative session. Pat Kambesis and Howard Kalnitz.

Donʼt forget to check the airport shuttle schedule in the Information room to confirm your reservations on Sunday or Monday.

The First Aid Station can still use volunteers for daytime coverage. For information, stop by 114 Moody Science building or call Randel Reinertson at 605-691-1611.

Yucatan Peninsula Mexico Conservation, Management and Exploration. An informal gathering of all people interested in the science, exploration, management and conservation of this area grab a lunch and gather in Ballroom 1. A discussion will start at 1300 (1:00)

Tonightʼs bat flight trip to Bracken Cave leaves promptly at 5:00

UIS Physical Chemistry and Hydrology Commission meets Saturday in CAC Ballroom 3 starting at 1230. Dining Hall Menu:

Todayʼs lunch will include the deli bar, salad bar, baked potato bar, hamburgers, french fries, broccoli and rice casserole, carrots, rolls and butter

At the NSS Banquet (Dining Hall closed): Vegan/vegetarian selection, Kosher (prepackaged meals). tossed olive Italian Salad, antipasto salad platter, penne pasta, fettuccine pasta, various sauces, green beans almandine, bread sticks, whole cakes desert bar, Iced tea, water and wine.

Book Signings-these are in Weir outside the bookstores.

Today: 11:00 - 1:00 Gary Roberson Fifty Years Under the

Sinkhole Plain

11:00 - 1:00 - Hazel Barton Extreme Scientist (Hazel is

featured in this book, she not the author, but it is a

really fun title with her on the cover

11:00 - 1:00 Gary Pint The Desert Caves of Saudi Arabia

SpeleMedia schedule today in Dietert Auditorium

0900 Third place winner

1000 Second place winner

1100 First Place winner

Video on Demand in Dietert Auditorium in the afternoon.

Bonus 3-D shows today in CAC theater (near Registration) 9:00 - 11:00 check the schedule in CAC for times.

Music show today in CAC theater 1130 -the famous song “Grand Kentucky Junction” by Barbara MacLeod set to the images of Mammoth Cave.

Cave Documentation/informatics-If you are interested in cave documentation or informatics-please check the contact list on the UIS informatics commission web page and send any additions or updates. www.UISIC.vis-speleo.org

If you are interested in participating in an open-source protect to extend the web based national database (Linux/ Apache/Mysql/Perl) please get in touch.

If you are already running a cave database, please get in touch - contact Peter Matthews - [email protected]

See me at the UIS Informatics meeting on Saturday, Cailloux Hall 104-105 at 1230 - 1400.

UIS Awards at the Congress - The UIS gives 3 awards during each ICS that will be presented at the ICS banquet on Saturday evening. • Best book about caves in the last 4 years • Most significant discovery in the last 4 years • Best poster in the poster sessions See Julia James of Australia before this evening.

Friday, July 24, 2009

On Campus Housing Deposit Refund Process - A team of inspectors will be available Sunday, July 26 and Monday morning, July 27. Find the inspector at your hall and get your room inspected. If you pass inspection, your university inspector will hand you a signed deposit refund form. As you leave Schriner University, stop at Registration, turn in your key and the signed form and receive your $50 deposit.

If you fail inspection (the room is damaged or excessively dirty, linens are missing or key is missing), the room inspector will keep the deposit refund form and collect your key. There will be no $50 refund at Registration for you.

Early checkout is available by appointment. Schedule this by filling out the form in the Information room. Every effort will be made to inspect you room at that time.

ISEI 2008 Results of the International UIS expedition in Iran by Fadi Nader, Saturday, July 27, at 1210 in Ballroom 2 in CAC.

UTMB Caving Health Questionnaire The researchers express thanks to those who returned completed health questionnaires that were included in your registration packet.

For those of you who have not yet returned a form, drop boxes are located in the hall on the second floor of Weir. Extra blank copies are located next to the box.







Beyond the Horizon

Volunteers are needed to help move vendors and tables out of Weir Hall starting Sunday at noon. We will need to clear the building The elevator is working! See Emily in Weir 120.

Do you have a good 5-minute talk or presentation? Bring it to Lightning Talks this afternoon.

Please remember to clean your own table in the Dining Hall.

For anyone interested in Pseudokarst in limestone, Charlie Selfʼs lecture is in the Cave and Karst Geology session this afternoon. Yes, really!

Daniel, thank you for showing the hummingbirds 3-D one more time. Edna

Aaron B - Happy birthday. You are now the answer to life, the universe, and everything (42). Sherie

Great swimming 6 miles from the university. Directions: left out of school 1.4 miles to Veterans Highway, make a right. Go to next signal, Rt 173 marker, left go 2.7 miles to Whorton Rd., make a left, go 2.1 miles to fork, (Y or T) bear left, go .8 miles and youʼll go over a small bridge. That is the swimming area.

Boomer (aka Tom Bemis) (aka Mr. Bemis to the younger generation) is retiring. Give him your congratulations and many happy speleo trips.

Last chance for raffle tickets. Win a pottery bowl and help fund WNS research. Tickets $1.00 each at the NSS Bookstore. Drawing at tonightʼs Banquet.

International cavers: remember to keep your passport with you when traveling. There are check points inside Texas, plus it is a federal law and customs gets grumpy.

To the NSS/CIS Convention Staff, your hard work is almost over. You have done, and are doing, a great job of taking care of the needs of many eccentric individuals. Those of us who have worked a convention understand your sacrifice and those who have not yet been a “conventioneer” will someday. Many thanks!

Donate $20 and get a special Fern Cave mug as the SCCI booth.

Lost - pink T-shirt “Cave Without a Name” - left in plastic bag on Speleoart bus trip vehicle. Call Sarah (304) 615-2415 or text or drop off in First Aid.

West Virginia Cave Conservancy ephemera. Go to Consignment Sales, glow-in-the-dark “Save the Caves” wrist bands $3, colorful patches $5, cave preserve signs $5.

I love you BHR!

Help with the cure for WNS - T-shirts in Consignment Sales go to support WNS research.

Reminder: All ICS participants receive free entry to the self guided tours at Carlsbad and Mammoth Caves National Parks this week and next (through August 3, 2009). Just show your ICS badge at the fee station to receive your free pass.

We miss you Bergan! You will be forever in our hearts!

Donʼt miss “Speleobooks After Hours” in the sales tent in the campground. Great deals! Open most evenings.

Happy Birthday NSS! Nicholas Stephen Socky will be 18 years old on 8/13/2009. From your friends and family.

Today is the last day to enter to win a free caving calendar + a special prize from Europe at Speleo Projects. Come to Weir 110 to enter. Winners must collect their prize in person.

Famous cave ballads now on DVD! Hear “Plastic Justrite” and other songs from Barbara MacLeod on a new video for sale by the Texas Cave Management Association @ Texas Sales in Wier and Consignment Sales in Moody Science bldg.

Attention SpeleoArtists!! The 2012 NSS Convention is having a logo contest. Submissions due by December 21, 2009! Info at Fine Arts Salon and in Loud Camping at the Zoo!!

Wine! 2009 ICS special label wine from Becker Vineyards will be on sale in the CAC today thru Saturday. What a great way to remember ICS 2009!

Are you related to the peninsula of Yucatun? Everyone interested in this area can join us today at 12:30 in CAC Ballroom 1.

Cavelegs kneepads at Consignment Sales. Check them out!

You should return by bracelet: flat silver and black bat on yellow/orange/black beaded wire wrist band and smooth carved rust colored ring. Turn in to Lost and Found at Registration. Elaine Hackerman

Lost - one sturdy banana shaped grey spectacles case with zipper opening and internal soft bag with drawstring. If found, please return to Lost and Found in the Information room.

Ride needed to San Antonio rail station Monday 27, July for 2 people - Brad Smith and Liz Robinson. 604R Flato Look for SpongeBob hats.

Volunteers needed for 2011 NSS Convention in Colorado. A variety of positions are available. Please contact Barbara Smith at [email protected] if interested.

Please join us for the Photo Salon Critique and workshop today at the CAC theater at 1:00 (1300)

Cavers: We appreciate your concerns, thoughts and generosity for Donald Davis. Donald, we wish you a speedy recovery. From all your caving friends.

Canadian/Canadien, eh? Group photo - Friday, before the NSS Banquet. Meet in the lobby of CAC at 5:00. Photo de group - vendredi avant NSS Banquest. Recontre dans le hall du Cailloux Centre a 5 p.m.

Come learn about caving in Belize. Cavers and noncaving spouses welcome. The 2010 Xmet Expedition will be February 17 - March 16, 2010. Join us for a week or more. Sketches/mappers needed. Drop in Friday 1230 - 1400 to MC143 (behind the pool and tennis courts) Leaders are David and Eleanor Larson. [email protected].

TCC Bat T-shirts available at Mercy Raines shop n Weir. Childrenʼs sizes available today. $5 each.

Packing supplies for shipping those heavy books home are available at Registration.

Extra Guide books are available at Registration for $35.00

Michael Kehs woodworks “The Fine Art of Caving” wooden cave related art. Visit us in room 007, ground floor in Weir.

Pre and Post-congress field trip guidebooks are available at Registration. Buy the book for the trip you didnʼt go on or buy the whole set. (If you are on a post-congress trip, you do not need to buy a book. You will receive one on the trip. Peri Franz

Vermont - 2010 Convention “A cool Convention” Preregistration now available at the NSS Bookstore - Register here at the ICS and we will mail you a free “Cavermont” bumper sticker: 2 1/2 x 12” white on green. See samples at our booth just outside Registration in CAC.

Friday, July 24, 2009

SWBLF seeks MLNBLM preferably grafitti artists for long rolls across campus. Contact Helene Wielz for info.

Found - Bag of purchases in Speleo Projects, Weir 110. Identify contents to claim at Speleo Projects.

When sandblasters are outlawed, only outlaws will have sandblasters. Bead boy

1530 feet new highline rope (formerly PMI Canada) $0.55/ft. Deal if you buy all of it. Contact Maureen Handler 423-605-5569.

WNS Decon is easy! 1. Completely wash your gear. 2. Soak CLEAN gear in disinfectant for 10 minutes. 3. Rinse disinfectant and dry gear.

If someone picked up my small red Swiss army knife, donʼt use the toothpick (I did), the tweezers have blood on them and the blade is tricky to close. OR...you could return it to me. (at First Aid) Stephen Mosberg





On ! Ho"zon a publication of the National Speleological Society

Saturday - July 25, 2009

You must have your name tag for the Banquet tonight. It is required. Our Banquet will be out at the Don Strange Ranch (same as last night). We encourage you to use the Vans and buses provided. Transportation runs continually from 5:00 to 6:45. (1700) For those wishing to drive to the ranch, maps and directions are available in CAC at Registration, the Information room and at the front table. Plan to arrive no later than 6:45. Dress cool, arrive early and join the fun!



On the Horizon comes to a close

This is the last edition of On the Horizon, therefore (if you squint really hard) it is pink. Weʼve had a lot of fun, this week, a lot of work, a lot of exploration , a chance to meet old friends and a chance make new ones.- with more to come tomorrow. Hopefully, weʼve learned something along the way. Our biggest thanks to all who worked on this convention especially George and Hazel. If you have never worked a convention, you might not realize the man hours and challenges involved to pull something like this together, still remain friends, and maintain your sanity. So hug a staff member, thank them for their devotion and volunteer to help in upcoming conventions. We hope our international friends will return to join us for future NSS Conventions. Thanks for coming, have an enjoyable Sunday and a safe trip home. Weʼ will see you next year in Vermont. Watch for Champ!! Love NormaDee

Program Additions and Changes

The IUCN - WCPA Caves and Karst Taskforce gathering this morning at 0800 in MS163 (listed as International Union of Conservation of Nature Biospheres Business Meeting)

Lava Caves Symposium has been moved from MS143 to CAC Ballroom today.



Convention Announcements

NAME TAGS must be worn at all times!!! You will be escorted off campus, otherwise.

VOLUNTEER HELP IS NEEDED today, all day Sunday and Monday morning. We need to disassemble the campground, Art Salon, Auditorium and more, and return the campus to itʼs previous state. See Bob Cowell at the campground - dismantle showers, sinks and fence.

See Bob West - room checkout all day today (pick a time slot) and Sunday afternoon to inspect rooms, return room keys, return deposits.

Check with Lisa Goggin - flags in Auditorium. Sunday afternoon.

We also have the following items for sale: 60 sheets of 3/8 OSB plywood, around 800 feet of orange construction site safety fence, lots of 2X4ʼs (never been outside), a 4 stall shower, and bunches of 1/4 inch poly rope.

VOLUNTEERS are needed to help move vendors and tables out of Weir Hall starting Sunday 7:30 - 9:00 a.m. move out On Rope 1. 1:00 - whenever help move out other vendors and tables. The more the merrier (and easier). Meet in Wier Hall The elevator is working!

VOLUNTEERS are needed to help tear down salons and transport convention material to storage. Please meet in front of Logan Library at 8:30 on Sunday morning. A truck with a trailer hitch is needed to transport the CO stuff to storage. Please contact Dave Lester 303 771 8408 or Barbara Smith at 303 912 0278.

Salon Awards - We forgot to thank Karen Veni for the BEAUTIFUL custom made Salon Awards this year. She worked very hard to make something worthy of the ICS. If you see her, please thank her.

Print Salon - Thank you to Ann Bosted for years of faithfully bringing together the NSS and ICS Print Salon. We wish Ann and Peter the best of luck in their new career.

UIS Physical Chemistry and Hydrology Commission meets today in CAC Ballroom 3 starting at 1230.

Post Congress Cross Country Excursion will meet after the ICS Closing Ceremony on Sunday, July 26 in the Dietert classroom.

###The following participants need to visit Registration and pay for the Carlsbad-Kerrville (or other) costs before leaving the Congress: Philippe Audra, Fred Luiszer.

Teaching Resources in Speleology and Karst, a multimedia project for educational use in speleology will be presented today in Ballroom 2 in CAC at 12:10 (right after the “International Destinations in Earth Science” session.

Dining Hall Menu:

Todayʼs lunch will include the deli bar, salad bar, baked potato bar, hamburgers, french fries, broccoli / rice casserole, carrots and rolls

At the NSS Banquet (Dining Hall closed): tossed green salad, pasta salad with vegetables, buttered baby carrots, garlic mashed potatoes, Vegan/vegetarian selection, carved turkey breast, carved roast beef, Kosher (prepackaged meals), dessert bar with apple pie, New York Cheesecake, pecan pie, iced tea, water and wine.

SpeleMedia schedule today at CAC Theater

During the unscheduled time on today, the CAC Theater will be available for screening other “walk in” programs, or repeats of video or multimedia programs previously shown. Facilities for 3-D shows may not be available. Please contact Alex Sproul or Peter Bosted at the theater to be put on the schedule.

1030 Tepuy - video The film documentary Tepuy is a thrilling story that takes place deep in the middle of the Orinduik rainforest in Venezuela. Thanks to itʼs almost absolute inaccessibility, prehistoric forms of life have been preserved here that have survived for millions of years. In the gigantic labyrinth of the worldʼs oldest rocks, colonies of bizarre organisms have built the largest quartzite cave in the world. A team of Slovak and Czech cavers and enthusiasts set out on a risky expedition to this time depository that has never befoe been encountered by humans...Inside massive underground spaces, they discover a lost world. However, they find more questions than answers... Produced by K2 Studio, s.r.o., Bratislava, Slovakia.

1200 Forty Years of Caving, Part 1 - 3-D UIS President, Andy Eavis has compiled this history of his UK groupʼs caving exploits in the modern era, and it has drawn rave reviews when presented at caving events in the UK and elsewhere.

1240 Lunch break

1320 Forty Years of Caving, Part 1 The rest of Andy Eavisʼ caving history presentation.

ISEI 2008 Results of the International UIS expedition in Iran by Fadi Nader, today, at 1210 in Ballroom 2 in CAC

Donʼt forget to check the airport shuttle schedule in the Information room to confirm your reservations for today or Monday.

Remember the fire restrictions Sister Winkie must not burn!

The mail center in CAC upstairs will be open today from 0900-1400 for domestic shipping and to buy stamps.

Teaching resources in Speleology and Karst - have you seen the DVD in your registration bag? Itʼs a wonderful 4 language source of educational material organized by the Italian Speleological Society.

###UTMB Caving Health Questionnaire The researchers express thanks to those who returned completed health questionnaires that were included in your registration packet.

For those of you who have not yet returned a form, drop boxes are located in the hall on the second floor of Weir. Extra blank copies are located next to the box.

On Campus Housing Deposit Refund Process - A team of inspectors will be available Sunday, July 26 and Monday morning, July 27. Find the inspector at your hall and get your room inspected. If you pass inspection, your university inspector will hand you a signed deposit refund form. As you

Saturday - July 25, 2009 leave Schriner University, stop at Registration, turn in your key and the signed form and receive your $50 deposit.

If you fail inspection (the room is damaged or excessively dirty, linens are missing or key is missing), the room inspector will keep the deposit refund form and collect your key. There will be no $50 refund at Registration for you.

Early checkout is available by appointment. Schedule this by filling out the form in the Information room. Every effort will be made to inspect you room at that time.



Beyond the Horizon

To George and all his colleagues - Many, many thanks for the best ICS of the 9 I have attended! Andy Eavis

D.C. caver looking for ride back. If you have room for one guy and is largish bag, call Alex @ 202 957-0492. Can help with driving and gas.

Happy Birthday to Tudor Tamas - many caves and discoveries!

Lost and Found: Photographic equipment found in Kickapoo Caverns. Come by Registration desk to describe and claim.

Found - Bag of purchases in Speleo Projects, Weir 110. Identify contents to claim at Speleo Projects.

Lost - one sturdy banana shaped grey spectacles case with zipper opening and internal soft bag with drawstring. If found, please return to Lost and Found in the Information room.

Syphon Heads: Please voice your support to Vermont Convention organizers for sponsoring the Terminal Syphonsʼ Wednesday evening performance in 2010. These are professional musicians who have given to us year after year, often outdoing the hired bands of parties or other nights. Support official sponsorship (by NSS) for performance of Terminal Syphons in 2010!

Friends of Cyndee Walck - Please join us in welcoming Cyndeeʼs upcoming relocation to Lubbock, Texas!

Alan and Susi - you are fun travel companions!

Help, please, I lost my cell phone! Itʼs an LG eNV2 with caving photos on the outside, front and back. If you found it , please call Scott Fee at 205-914-7487.

Virginia Region Cavers donʼt forget to pre-register for Fall VAR! See a BAT.

Hey Bork!

Speleosoap purchasers: If we are holding your purchases, please remember to pick them up by Sunday morning. Thanks!!

Need a ride to Carlsbad on Sunday afternoon. Giovanni Badino. [email protected]

Wanted - To complete collections, NSS Convention patches, 1970, 76,78, and 80. Pins - 1990 and 92. Contact Richard Raver NSS #6695. [email protected]

Congratulations to Jeita Grotto - Lebanon, elected among the finalists list of the New 7 Wonders of Nature of the World. To vote for Jeita Grotto, please visit the site: www.new7wonders.com

Archeologists, biologists, explorers. Check out new caving frontier in Arabia. Hundreds of kms of 3 million year old virgin caves. CAC Ballroom 1 at 1700 (5:00) today. John Pint

Charles Larson, please come to the bookstore.

Judy and Gordonʼs Cave Memorabilia Shop - buy one piece of china and get the second piece 50% off. Wier Hall, ground level.

The NSS Bookstore says “Sell it All Saturday” - everything must go! Store closes at 12:00 p.m.. - volunteers needed to help pack up. See you next year in Vermont!

Boris Watt - I have 2 short (15 min total) films made by the international expedition to Meghalaya, 2007 and 2008, on DVD. They are of a humorous nature. Would like them for projection tomorrow. Peter Glanville 00449768975079 or room 209 Trull.

The Caves and Karst of Texas, 1994 NSS Convention Guidebook, still the best compilation of information on Texas caves is on sale at the Texas Speleological Survey Bookstore on the second floor of Wier Hall. Now reduced to $5.00!!!

Willing to trade Grand Canyon back packing of Vegas trip f o r t o u r i s t / c a v i n g t r i p t o y o u r c o u n t r y. ED [email protected]

Shirley the Bat is still collecting for the NSS WNS rapid response fund. Sheʼs collected over $100 so far. Thank you.

Award Winning 2009 ICS patch available at Registration, $5.00.

Black side pack found in Diertert Theater. Claim at Lost and Found in Registration.

Want to go rafting and climbing in the Southwest? Contact Ed. [email protected] or Nigil: [email protected]

Attention: Looking for Oklahoma caver who took N.Y. caver caving while staying in Norman, Oklahoma at Pootal training center in 1994. You also took me to a bat flight on private property. We met at a Wal Mart parking lot. You were driving a small rd pickup truck. Iʼm in the university dorm, PG 017 (617 canʼt read) cell phone 917-579-5809.

Special weekend deals in “Speleobooks After Hours” Check us out in the campground.

Thank you, P. Hertl, for everything. Youʼre the best! L. Bencebi

Please remember to clean your own table in the Dining Hall.

Vermont - 2010 Convention “A cool Convention” Preregistration now available at the NSS Bookstore - Register here at the ICS and we will mail you a free “Cavermont” bumper sticker: 2 1/2 x 12” white on green. See samples at our booth just outside Registration in CAC.

Happy birthday Aaron from all your Sandia Groto friends. Weʼll see you to celebrate at the Banquet.

International cavers: remember to keep your passport with you when traveling. There are check points inside Texas, plus it is a federal law and customs gets grumpy.

To the NSS/CIS Convention Staff, your hard work is almost over. You have done, and are doing, a great job of taking care of the needs of many eccentric individuals. Those of us who have worked a convention understand your sacrifice and those who have not yet been a “conventioneer” will someday. Many thanks!

Donate $20 and get a special Fern Cave mug as the SCCI booth.

Famous cave ballads now on DVD! Hear “Plastic Justrite” and other songs from Barbara MacLeod on a new video for sale by the Texas Cave Management Association @ Texas Sales in Wier and Consignment Sales in Moody Science bldg.

Attention SpeleoArtists!! The 2012 NSS Convention is having a logo contest. Submissions due by December 21, 2009! Info at Fine Arts Salon and in Loud Camping at the Zoo!!

Wine! 2009 ICS special label wine from Becker Vineyards will be on sale in CAC today. What a great way to remember ICS 2009!

Cavelegs kneepads at Consignment Sales. Check them out!

Volunteers needed for 2011 NSS Convention in Colorado. A variety of positions are available. Please contact Barbara Smith at [email protected] if interested. Dear Cavers, Thank you for your continued support of the NSSBookstore. We appreciate your business. See you all next year! with love, Kelli and Stephanie



Sundayʼs News and Notes

Sundays Menu: Lunch will include the deli bar, salad bar, baked potato bar, hamburgers, french fries, chicken Alfredo, broccoli and rolls.

Dinner: Salad bar, deli bar, grill line open, desert bar, chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes/gravy vegetable medly and rolls.

Saturday - July 25, 2009

Donʼt forget to check the airport shuttle schedule in the Information room to confirm your reservations on Sunday or Monday.

Sundayʼs field trip to Caverns of Sonora leaves promptly at 5:00

Final Schedule: 15th International Congress of Speleology Any changes or corrections to the schedule will be announced at the Congress in the daily newsletter, On the Horizon

Sunday morning, 19 July 2009

Time

Cailloux Activity Center Theater

08000830 08300900

Dietert Auditorium

Other Meetings

Opening Ceremony

UIS Delegate Registration for General Assembly

International Congress Orientation: continuous automated presentation

09001200

UIS General Assembly

12001400 Lunch

(starts at 1300) International SpeleoArt Reception: Logan Library

Sunday afternoon, 19 July 2009 Cailloux Activity Center Theater

Other Meetings

José Ayrton Labegalini, UIS President 2001-2005. UIS – The organization of international speleology

14301500 Andy Eavis UIS President 2005-2009. An up-to-date report on cave exploration around the world

15301600 Break

16001645 Paolo Forti UIS President 1993-1997. State of the art in the speleological sciences

Plenary session

Chairmen: Fadi Nader, UIS Secretary General 2005-2009 & George Veni, UIS Adjunct Secretary 2002-2009

International Congress Orientation: continuous automated presentation

Time 14001430

Plenary session

Chairmen: Fadi Nader, UIS Secretary General 2005-2009 & George Veni, UIS Adjunct Secretary 2002-2009

Dietert Auditorium

16451730 Paul Williams UIS Adjunct Secretary 2005-2009. UNESCO World Heritage caves and karst: present situation, future prospects and management requirements

17302000 Dinner

NSS Stonewall Cavers: Dietert Classroom

20002200 UIS President’s Opening Gala – Cailloux Activity Center

Monday morning, 20 July 2009

10501110

11101130

11301150

11501210

12101230

12301400

Lunch

Break

Bruxelles et al. How can ghost rocks help in karst development

Break

Paoletti et al. Comparison of three moonmilk cave habitats associated with troglobitic beetles

Auler & Piló. Morphology and genesis of caves in iron-rich rocks

Saiz-Jimenez et al. The control of a fungal outbreak in a show cave

Kempe, et al. The possible speleogene-hypogene origin of the Warda Iron Ore Mine deposit (Jordan)

Garcia et al. Discovering new diversity in Hawaiian lava tube microbial mats

Shabarova & Pernthaler. Investigation of bacterioplankton in pools in Bärenschacht Cave of Bernese Oberland Macalady et al. Sulfuroxidizing extremophiles from the caves of Acquasanta Terme, Italy Portillo et al. Microorganisms involved in the formation and dissolution of carbonate deposits in Spanish Caves Microbiology & Geomicrobiology Lunch

Barton et al. The alkali speleogenesis of Roraima Sur Cave, Venezuela

Nance & Stafford. Karst in the Castile Formation, NM and TX: a study of multiple models for regional speleogenesis Stafford & Nance. Ascending water of the Delaware Basin, southeastern New Mexico and west Texas Vigna et al. Messinian karst in Monferrato gypsum areas (north Italy)

UIS Physical Chemistry & Hydrogeology Commission

Cigna. The ISCA management guidelines for show caves

Grebe, et al. European Cave Protection Commission (ECPC) – a new movement for cave protection in Europe Grebe, et al. European speleology in European politics

Meehan. Karst and geodiversity initiatives in NSW, Australia

Break Horne. An overview survey of cave & karst resources managed by Parks Canada

Hilman et al. Environmental deteriorations, policies and management of Indonesian karst Lobo et al. Trends for tourist carrying capacity in Brazilian caves

Metni & Tawk. Baatara Pothole site: overview and development perspectives

Jeannin & Hitz. Cave and karst conservation and management in Switzerland Baichtal et al. Karst and caves of the Hoholitna River region, southwestern Alaska

UIS Département de la protection et de l'exploitation

Techniques, Equip., & Projects Chairmen: D. Coons & Z. Motyčka

Sasowsky. Speleogenesis as component of corrosion of Earth’s surface, Appalachian Plateau, USA

Cave/Karst Mgnt. Symp. Chairmen: M. Warner & J-P Bartholeyns

Meisinger et al. Hunt for hidden biodiversity of sulfidic caves: unique chloroflexi from Lower Kane Cave, WY, USA

Mylroie & Mylroie. Unique dissolutional morphologies in caves: a result of convective flow regimes

Cigna & Summers. International Commission on sustainable development in show caves

Dietert Auditorium

Vaxevanopoulos. Use of speleological techniques in ancient mine exploration

McCreat. The Swaygo gear rack trap

Cole. Digital modes for cave radios

Morel & Chambat. Very long zip-line with speleology techniques: modelization and measurements Lucas et al. A method for detecting cave connections by induced air flow

Break

Techniques, Equipment, and Projects Chairmen: D. Coons & Z. Motyčka

10301050

Azúa-Bustos et al. Atacama Desert caves: analogues for possible microbial life habitats on Mars

Audra et al. The pattern of hypogenic caves

Theater

SpeleMedia Videos & 3D Slide Shows - see schedule outside Theater

10101030

Jurado et al. What can molecular microbiology tell us about Lascaux Cave?

Doctor et al. Preliminary development of a quantitative karst classification system, PHORMS

Ballroom 3

Cave/Karst Mgnt. Symp. Chairmen: M. Warner & J-P Bartholeyns

09501010

Mulec et al. Microbial diversity from the sulfidic karst spring, ŽveplenicaDolenja Trebuša, Slovenia

Speleogenesis Chairmen: A. Klimchouk & A.N. Palmer

09300950

Porter et al. Energy flow and productivity-diversity relationships in chemolithoautotrophic ecosystems

Ballroom 2

Speleogenesis Chairmen: A. Klimchouk & A.N. Palmer

09100930

SpeleOlympics (0900-1700): Rope Climbing, Cable Ladder Climbing, Team Competition Survey Competition & Team Competition (lawn between Dietert Auditorium and Logan Library)

08500910

Ballroom 1

Geomicrobiology – 1 Chairmen: H. Barton & J.M. Gonzalez

07000800 08300850

Geomicrobiology - 1 Chairmen: H. Barton & J.M. Gonzalez

Time

Cailloux Activity Center

Edington Gym

Salem et al. Houet Tabet: new discovery approach

Medville et al. Seventeen years beneath Hualalai: a summary of caving experience (1) Häuselmann. Organization of international caving camps: the Humpleu example Mouret. Ethics of speleological expeditions to foreign countries

Lunch

Monday morning, 20 July 2009 Mountaineer Center Lobby

Room 138

Room 143

Room 163

Other Meetings

Time

(0700-0800 meetings) FEALC (Federación Espeleológica de América Latina y del Caribe): Dietert Classroom

07000800 08300850

NSS Medical Section: MS113 08500910

09100930

(starts at 0800) (0700-1230) Communications & Electronics Session and NSS Communications & Electronics Section meeting: MS106

NSS Board of Governors meeting

09300950

09501010

Break

Break

Break

Break

10101030 10301050

10501110

11101130 International SpeleoArt Classes: MS203

NSS Board of Governors meeting

11301150

11501210

12101230

Lunch

NSS Board closed lunch

Lunch

UIS Bibliography Commission: CH104-105

12301400

Monday afternoon, 20 July 2009

16201640

16401700

17001720

17201740

19002300

Break Contos & James. Iron (III) bio-mineralization and its significance in Odyssey Cave, Bungonia, New South Wales, Australia Schwabe & Carew. How can buffered vadose and phreatic water dissolve CaCO3 and form caves: a bacterial answer Andreychouk. Ironmanganese colonies of microorganisms from Zoloushka Cave (Ukraine)

Adjourn to Poster Papers in Mountaineer Center Lobby

Schindel et al. Hypogene processes in the Balcones Fault Zone, Edwards Aquifer, south-central Texas, USA Break Faulkner. Speleogenesis of the New England marble caves

Rubin. Geological evolution of the Cobleskill Plateau, New York State, USA Schwartz & Doctor. Geomorphic and hydrogeologic evolution of karst in Burnsville Cove, Virginia, U.S.A. Palmer et al. Geologic history of the Black Hills Caves, South Dakota, USA

Hill & Polyak. How karst works in the Grand Canyon

Casavant et al. Geohydrology of a Sonoran Desert mountainfront karst aquifer Casavant et al. Rusticles of Kartchner Caverns State Park: lessons in speleogenesis, engineering, and show cave management Sharp et al. Urbanizationinduced trends in spring discharge from a karstic aquifer – Barton Springs, Austin, Texas, USA Metni et al. Kassarat Cave – Antelias: catchment works hazard assessment

Break White et al. Hydroelectric power proposal, IralalaroPaitchau Karst, TimorLeste Haryono et al. Environmental problems of Telaga (Doline Pond) in Gununsewu Karst, Java Indonesia White. Fungus and cave management

Howdy Party! Dinner, drinks, and music – Robbins Lewis (Loud Campground) Pavilion

Dietert Auditorium

Reconnaissance Projects Chairmen: H. Medville & O. Vidal

Rosales-Lagarde et al. Regional geologic evolutionary effects on speleogenesis at Villa Luz Park, Tabasco, Mexico

Cave/Karst Mgnt. Symp. Chairmen: M. Warner & J-P Bartholeyns

Legatzki et al. Microbial diversity in Kartchner Caverns, a carbonate cave in southern Arizona, USA

Menichetti. Speleogenesis of the hypogenic caves in central Italy

Theater

Pernette et al. The CentreTerre Expeditions to Patagonian karst islands: an historic overview Burgers et al. The karst of remote Houaphan Province in northern Laos

Piccini et al. Preliminary overview on the karst areas of Kalaw (Myanmar)

Kovarik et al. 2008 Tongass Cave Project expeditions in south central and southeast Alaska

Break Exploration Project Summaries Chairmen: H. Medville & O. Vidal

16001620

Melim et al. The geology of cave pools: clues for the microbiology

Queen. Post-drainage evolution of the caves of the Guadalupe Mountains, southeastern New Mexico and west Texas, USA

Ballroom 3 Goodbar. Mitigating oil and gas drilling and production operations in karst lands: ten years of problem solving and progress

SpeleMedia Videos & 3D Slide Shows - see schedule outside Theater

15401600

Giarrizzo et al. Microbial community energetics in Roraima Sur Cave, Venezuela

DuChene & Cunningham. Tectonic influences on speleogenesis, Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico and Texas, USA

Cave/Karst Mgnt. Symp. Chairmen: M. Warner & J-P Bartholeyns

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Boston et al. Mathematical modeling of biological and physical processes in complex mazelike cave biomats and desert crusts

Ballroom 2

Speleogenesis Chairmen: A. Klimchouk & A.N. Palmer

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Gary et al. Aqueous geochemical environments of Systema Zacatón, Mexico

Speleogenesis Chairmen: A. Klimchouk & A.N. Palmer

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SpeleOlympics (0900-1700): Rope Climbing, Cable Ladder Climbing, Team Competition Survey Competition & Team Competition (lawn between Dietert Auditorium and Logan Library)

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Geomicrobiology – 2 Chairmen: H. Barton & J.M. Gonzalez

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Geomicrobiology - 2 Chairmen: H. Barton & J.M. Gonzalez

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Lynch et al. Eight years of exploration in China by Hongmeigui Cave Exploration Society Mouret et al. 2005 to 2008 speleological discoveries in caves of Khammouane, Laos Sauro et al. Five years of speleological investigation, Sierra Mixteca-Zapoteca, south of Tehuacán, Oaxaca, Mexico Larson et al. Ten years underground with the Maya in Belize, Central America Sprouse. Xilitla: locus of Mexican caving

(1800-1900) Movie Premiere: Texas Cavers

Monday afternoon, 20 July 2009 Mountaineer Center Lobby

Room 138

Room 143

Room 163

Other Meetings

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NSS Board of Governors meeting - closed

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Finnesand & Curl. Morphology of Tjoarvekrajgge – the longest cave of Scandinavia White & White. Bullita Cave, Gregory Karst, N.T. Australia: a maze cave in Proterozoic dolomite Break

Cowan et al. Temporal variability of cave-air CO2 in central Texas

Osborne. Early Carboniferous unlithified cave sediments: their implications

Wong & Banner. Investigating controls on non-linear drip rate and drip-water composition in central Texas karst, USA

Filipponi & Jeannin. Flow distribution at early stage of karstification and 3D geometry of cave systems

Kempe et al. Glacial cave ice as cause of destruction of interglacial and interstadial speleothem generations in central Europe Perşoiu & Onac. Comparative isotopic study of different types of ice in Scărişoara Ice Cave, Romania Pawlak & Hercman. Capability of isotopic profiles from cave speleothems: numeric correlation Maire et al. Uranium mapping in speleothems: occurrence of diagenesis, detrital contamination and geochemical consequences

UIS Paleokarst & Speleochronology Meeting

Vanara & Maire. Typology, genesis and evolution of tunnel-caves in southwestern China Sahy et al. Cave sediments as records of landscape evolution in the eastern Alps De Waele et al. Kraushöhle (Austria): morphology and mineralogy of an alpine sulfuric acid cave Klimchouk et al. Deepest cave in the world, Arabika Massif; hydrogeological and paleogeographic significance

UIS Karst Hydrology & Speleogenesis Commission

Theater

Dietert Auditorium

González-Quevedo et al. Cavern of Santa Catalina’s management plan

Pulham & Armstrong. Bold new resource management program at Timpanogos Cave, a National Park Service centennial strategy Toomey et al. Relighting Mammoth Cave’s New Entrance

Hildreth-Werker et al. Prototype site for integrated speleological research: La Cueva de las Barrancas Break Werker & Hildreth-Werker. Speleothem repair: rehang large broken stalactites

Helf & Woodman. Cave cricket monitoring method developed by ecologists for Mammoth Cave National Park Helf et al. A comparison of two cave cricket (Hadenoecus subterraneus) monitoring protocols Lambert & Hildreth-Werker. Cave conservation online

Jeannin et al. High CO2 concentrations and cave ventilation test in the Milandre Cave, Jura Mountains, Switzerland

UIS Pseudokarst Meeting

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Cartographic Technology Chairmen: P. Kambesis & L. Le Blanc

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Audra et al. Base level rise and per ascensum model of speleogenesis; deep phreatic karst, Vauclusian springs and chimney-shafts

Cave/Karst Mgnt. Symp. Chairmen: M. Warner & J-P Bartholeyns

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Magne & Rodet. Karstic evolution of chalk catchment area of the Paris Basin, upper Avre River (Normandy, France)

Ballroom 3 NSS Conservation & Management Section Meeting Halliday. What can you do with a worn-out show cave? Dunbar Cave, Tennessee as a success story

SpeleMedia Videos & 3D Slide Shows - see schedule outside Theater

Speleogenesis Chairmen: A. Klimchouk & A.N. Palmer (begins at 0810)

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Secrets of the Past, Speleothem Studies Chairmen: V. Polyak & B. Onac

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SpeleOlympics (0900-1700): Rope Climbing, Cable Ladder Climbing, Team Competition Survey Competition & Team Competition (lawn between Dietert Auditorium and Logan Library) Rebelay Training 1000-1700

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Ballroom 2 De Waele et al. Age of caves Cordillera de la Sal, De Waele & Granger. The age of cave systems in central-east Sardinia: preliminary data

Cave/Karst Mgnt. Symp. Chairmen: M. Warner & J-P Bartholeyns

Ballroom 1

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Cailloux Activity Center

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Häuselmann. The UISIC Workgroup “Topography and Mapping” and its activities Futrell. Terrain modeling and GIS techniques for cave expeditions in China

Le Blanc. The Sierra Negra in a PDA: expedition-wide electronic cave surveying

Horrocks & Austin. Making a digital map of Wind Cave, Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota Bosted. Blunder detection in complex survey networks

Kambesis et al. Successful management of long-term survey projects

Lunch

Tuesday morning, 21 July 2009 Mountaineer Center Room 138

Lunch

Room 143

Room 163

Watson. World of the past in the world underground Crothers & Willey. Mortuary caves and sinkholes, interior low plateaus and southern Appalachian Mtns. in eastern USA

Other Meetings

Time

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Ralph. Texas caves: Texas ossuaries

08500910 (start at 0830) National Cave Rescue Commission Business meeting: Dietert Classroom

Simek & Cressler. Prehistoric cave art in southeastern North America

Photography Workshop: CH104/CH105

Greer & Greer. Rock art and other archeological cave use, North American plains from Canada to northern Mexico

(0900-1500) International SpeleoArt Cave Without A Name Field Trip

Brady & Scott. Heart of the Earth, heart of the community: role of caves in validation of settlement space Break

Archeology and Paleontology Chairmen: D. Hubbard & R. Hapka

Posters: Exploration Session

Archeology and Paleontology Chairmen: D. Hubbard & R. Hapka (0800)

Lobby

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Cobb & Brady. The contribution of cavers to the development of Maya cave archaeology

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Blankenship et al. Dendroarchaeological approach to understanding 19th century saltpetre-mining industry in the southeastern USA

NSS Future Conventions meeting: CH213

McCormick. Identifying prehistoric trackways using stride lengths: behavioral inferences from Jaguar Cave, Tennessee

Photography Workshop: CH104/CH105

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Rodet & Rodet. Geoarchaeological characterization of rock shelters in a karst context in Minas Gerais (Brazil)

(0900-1500) International SpeleoArt Cave Without A Name Field Trip

Keeler. Sand blasting as an archaeological restoration tool in caves

Tzifopoulos & Litinas. Graffiti in the Melidoni Cave in Crete, Greece

UIS Archeology & Paleontology in Caves Meeting

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Lunch

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Tuesday afternoon, 21 July 2009

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NSS Congress of Grottos

Williams et al. New Zealand cave records show the Southern Hemisphere to be paleoclimatically different Partin et al. Reconstructing paleo-rainfall in the western tropical pacific: developing speleothem proxies Break

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Holler. The fissure caves of North Carolina’s Mystery Mountain, Rumbling Bald

Leissring et al. Unusual talus-fissure caves in Tuolumne County, California Eszterhás & Szentes. Overview of the non-karst caves in Hungary

Kastning. Morphogenetic classification of talus caves based on geometry of clasts and sequential development Break

Klimchouk et al. Dating of speleothems from the world’s deepest cave – Krubera (Arabika Massif, western Caucasus) Nader et al. Geochemical study of a Holocene stalagmite, Jeita Cave (Lebanon): implications for paleoclimate reconstruction Constantin. Evolution of karst system from U-series dating and fabric analysis: a case-study from Romania

NSS Headquarters Open Forum

Poulianos et al. Combined new paleoclimatologic and chronologic evidence from Petralona Cave, Greece

Dietert Auditorium

General Exploration 1 Chairmen: D. Coons & G. Vela

Hercman. Age-depth model using samples age and depth distributions basing on 230Th/U, radiocarbon and 210Pb dating results

Theater

Allison & Stockton. Exploration in Dry Cave 2005-2009, Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico Lucas & Balfour. Soaking wet in Dry Cave: the history of exploration with a promise for the future Armstrong. Resurvey of Sitting Bull Crystal Caverns, South Dakota, USA Turcott et al. Proyecto Akemabis 2008

Nader et al. The international speleological expedition to Iran (2008)

Break

General Exploration 1 Chairmen: D. Coons & G. Vela

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Tămaş & Onac. Stable isotope variations, marine isotope stage 3, recorded in a stalagmite from V11 Cave, NW Romania

Ballroom 3 Halliday. Differentiating karstic and pseudokarstic caves and closed depressions in the American Southwest, USA

SpeleMedia Videos & 3D Slide Shows - see schedule outside Theater

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Polk & Van Beynen. Highresolution record of atmospheric-oceanic teleconnections during the late Holocene, Florida

Pseudokarst Chairmen: E. Kastning & J.P. van der Pas

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SpeleOlympics (0900-1700): Rope Climbing, Cable Ladder Climbing, Team Competition Survey Competition & Team Competition (lawn between Dietert Auditorium and Logan Library) Rebelay Training 1000-1700

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Ballroom 1 Secrets of Past, Speleothem Studies Chairmen: V. Polyak & B. Onac

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Secrets of Past, Speleothem Studies Chairmen: V. Polyak & B. Onac

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Sauro et al. Piani Eterni: 20 years of explorations in the deepest cave of the Dolomite Mountains, Venetian Alps, Italy Paylor. Exploration and mapping of Sunnybrook Blowing Cave, Wayne County, Kentucky, USA De Vivo et al. Recent explorations in the St. Paul Karst (Palawan, Philippines) Motyčka. New discoveries in the Amaterska Cave – the longest cave system of the Czech Republic Futrell. Caves of Tongzi, Wulong County, Chongqing, China

Dinner Evening field trips: Bat Flight, Cave Without A Name, Caverns of Sonora, Natural Bridge Caverns (1700-2400) Joint U.S. national non-profit cave and karst organization reception: Cave Research Foundation, Karst Waters Institute, and National Cave and Karst Research Institute

Tuesday afternoon, 21 July 2009 Mountaineer Center

Archeology and Paleontology Chairmen: D. Hubbard & R. Hapka

Room 138

Room 143

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Other Meetings

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Poulianos et al. Combined new paleoclimatologic and chronologic evidence from Petralona Cave

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Hapka. Speleoarchaeology in Papua New Guinea: the discovery of paleolithic flint mines, on the shores of the Soloman Sea

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Poulianos. A new tool-type from the upper stratigraphic layers of Petralona Cave

(0900-1500) International SpeleoArt Cave Without A Name Field Trip

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Lundelius. Contributions of Edwards Plateau cave deposits to Pleistocene vertebrate paleontology

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Heaton & Grady. The fossil bears of southeast Alaska

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Break Archeology and Paleontology Chairmen: D. Hubbard & R. Hapka

Posters: Archeology, and Paleontology Symposium International Cave and Karst Management Symposium Speleogenesis in Regional Geological Evolution Symposium

Lobby

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Grady & Hubbard. Fossil mammals from Island Ford Cave, Virginia, USA

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Froehlich et al. Late Pleistocene to historic vertebrate faunas from caves and karst features at Camp Bullis, Texas USA

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Sujka & Hercman. Application of U-series dating method to fossil bones – new perspectives

UNESCO/IGCP Project 513 Business Meeting: MS106 (ends at 1740)

Plan et al. The significance of cave bears for passage morphology

Toomey. The importance of karst sites as paleontological localities

Dinner. Evening field trips: Bat Flight, Cave Without A Name, Caverns of Sonora, Natural Bridge Caverns (1700-2400) Open Microphone Night (Robbins Lewis Pavilion)

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FEALC Dinner (location to be announced) Nittany Grotto Reunion: outside Cailloux Activity Center

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Thursday morning, 23 July 2009

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White. Speleothem ontogeny: lessons from crystal growth theory and technology Self. Which features of the cave environment control the growth of speleothems? De Waele et al. Halite macrocrystalline stalactites of the Atacama caves (Chile). Merino et al. Preliminary data on mineralogical aspects of cave rims and vents in Cova des Pas de Vallgornera, Mallorca Break

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Mouret & Lapointe. Mineralogy of chemical deposits in hypogenic Phiseua Cave, Khammouane, central Laos Onac et al. Cioclovina Cave (Romania): a unique mineralogical setting

Brick et al. Isotopic study of nitrates from Upper Mississippi Valley saltpetre caves Urbani. Venezuelan cave minerals: second review

UIS Cave Mineralogy Commission

Green et al. Characterizing spring drainage areas using MODFLOW-DCM, a conduit/diffuse flow modeling tool Kuniansky & Shoemaker. Conduit flow process (CFP) for MODFLOW2005

Break

Bernabei et al. The Naica project

Forti et al. Minerogenesis in the Naica Caves (Chihuahua, Mexico)

Jones & Finch. Urban karst drainage problems in the Ensor Sink – Tires-toSpare System, Cookeville, Tennessee, USA

He Shiyi et al. Karst hydrogeochemical features in the catchment of Baiyandong underground river, Baojing, Hunan, China Rodet et al. Development and function of a perched aquifer in the chalk limestone in the Paris Basin (France) Tobin & Doctor. Estimating karst conduit length using conductivity and discharge measurements in Lilburn Cave, Kings Canyon Brahana et al. Flow characterization across a range of hydrologic conditions, Ozark Region, U.S. Brown & Kenworthy. Atrazine contamination & suspended sediment transport, Logsdon River, Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, USA Ham et al. Conservative and biological tracers of agricultural contaminants from soil water through the epikarstic zone Lunch

General Exploration 2 Chairmen: S. Allison & G. Allison-Kosior

Caggiano et al. Cave mineral database: a joint collaboration between geologists, librarians, and programmers

Campion. The Teng Long Dong System and the caves and karst features of Lichuan County, Hubei Province, southwest China Chenier. Mexpé: Sistema Tepepa and area

Futrell & Futrell. Exploration, geology, and hydrology of Sugar Run Cave System, Virginia Despain et al. Recent explorations in Whigpistle Cave System, Edmonson County, Kentucky, USA Badino et al. The Naica Caves survey

Break Motyčka. New discoveries in underwater cave systems in Riviera Maya, Mexico General Exploration 2 Chairmen: S. Allison & G. Allison-Kosior

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SpeleMedia Videos & 3D Slide Shows - see schedule outside Theater

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Cave/Karst Hydro. 1 Chairmen: J. Kaufman & L. Rosales-Lagarde

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Cave and Karst Hydrology 1 Chairmen: J. Kaufman & L. Rosales-Lagarde

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Frontiers in Cave Mineralogy Studies Chairmen: B. Onac & C. Hill

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NSS Geology & Geography Section Meeting (0700-0830)

SpeleOlympics (0900-1700): Rebelay Course, Obstacle Course, Team Competition (west corner of Loud Campground, along creek) NSS Vertical Section 0900-1100 Vertical Workshop starts at 1100

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Frontiers in Cave Mineralogy Studies Chairmen: B. Onac & C. Hill

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Edington Gym

Borden & Osburn. Exploration in Mammoth Cave

Wiles. Recent exploration at Jewel Cave

Armstrong & Lyles. Two hundred kilometers in Lechuguilla Cave

Kasian et al. Exploration of Krubera Cave, the deepest cave in the world: 28 years beneath the Ortobalagan Valley, western Caucasus

Thursday morning, 23 July 2009 Mountaineer Center Room 143

Ralph. The Texas Speleological Survey: 48 years of data gathering

(0700-0830) American Spelean History Association Meeting Douglas. African Americans and the use of caves as hidden spaces in the antebellum and Civil War South.

Hollingsworth et al. Creation of an international digital karst database and an interactive worldwide map of karst Curtis. Troggle: a novel system for cave exploration information management

Matthews. The work of the UIS Infomatics Commission

Weary & Doctor. A new karst map of the United States

Arts and Humanities – History Chairmen: D. Snyder & S. Kempe

Inventory of Cave and Karst Chairmen: J. Kennedy & P. Matthews

Room 138

Break

Adjourn to Poster Papers in Mountaineer Center Lobby

Arts and Humanities – History Chairmen: D. Snyder & S. Kempe

Kovarik. Cave and karst resource inventory and monitoring on the Tongass National Forest, southeast Alaska, USA

Room 163

Other Meetings

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(0700-0830 meetings) NSS Cave Diving Section: Dietert Classroom

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NSS Speleophilatelic Section: MS105

Benton. The presence of Floyd Collins in the Mammoth Cave (KY) area today

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Kempe et al. Early cave visits by women and the travel accounts to Grotto of Antiparos (1786) and Peaks Cavern (1803)

09100930

Brick. The myth of the American Cave Man

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Mouret. Human use of caves in Martinique and Guadeloupe Islands, West Indies Break

Anderson. Documentation of caves and karst in Western Australia Inventory of Cave and Karst Chairmen: J. Kennedy & P. Matthews

Posters: Cave and Karst Hydrology Session Inventory of Cave and Karst Resources Symposium

Lobby

Kempe & Suckstorff. Josef Anton Nagel 1748 manuscript about expedition to Carniola (Slovenia) and Moravia (Czech Republic) Parise et al. The map of ancient underground aqueducts: a nationwide project by the Italian Speleological Society

Cave Diving Discussion – International Certifications, Laws, Discoveries: Dietert Classroom Break

NSS Awards Committee Open Meeting (meeting closes to public at 0930): CH104/105 NSS Conservancies Meeting: MS106 NSS Finance Forum: CH112

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Speece. Arch Spring and cave

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Yuellig & Hindman. The National Speleological Society Museum: history, progress, and future directions

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Kempe & Hubrich. Visitor inscriptions in the Old Passage of Postojnska jama (Adelsberger Grotte), Slovenia

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Mancini & Forti. The oldest printed cave maps in the world

Lunch

(start at 1230) UIS Diving (Plongee): Dietert Classroom National Park Service Employees’ Lunch: MS105

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Spilde et al. Speleosol: a subterranean soil

Buecher. Measurement of relative humidity in caves

Break

Ballroom 3

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Theater

Dietert Auditorium

SpeleMedia Videos & 3D Slide Shows - see schedule outside Theater

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Ballroom 2 Cave & Karst Hydrology 2 Chairmen: E. Kuniansky & A. Frumkin

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Ballroom 1 Andreychouk. Cryomineral formations from Koungur Ice Cave (Russia)

White Nose Syndrome Discussion

Jones. The importance of karst aquifers to public and domestic water supplies in the United States Lucas. Recording a flood event inside the Water Sinks Cave

Goodbar. Dye tracing oil and gas drilling fluid migration through karst: study to determine potential impacts to groundwater Lerch. Contaminant transport in two central Missouri karst recharge areas Jeannin et al. Impact assessment of a tunnel on two karst springs, Flims, Switzerland Break

Cave & Karst Hydrology 3 Chairmen: M. Covington & H. Hercman

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SpeleOlympics (0900-1700): Rebelay Course, Obstacle Course, Team Competition (west corner of Loud Campground, along creek) Vertical Workshop 1100-1630 Vertical Contest Awards 1630-1730

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Frontiers in Cave Mineralogy Studies Chairmen: B. Onac & C. Hill

Time

Cailloux Activity Center

Edington Gym

Veni et al. Preliminary hydrogeologic survey of Petralona Cave, Chalkidiki, Greece Johnson et al. Tracing groundwater in the Edwards Aquifer recharge zone, northern Bexar County, Texas, USA Chowdhury & Norris. Delineating spring flow systems in the Texas Hill Country, USA Spangler. Karst hydrology in Utah – an overview

Bishop et al. Preliminary water quality and boundary redefinition of the Scott Hollow Drainage Basin, Appalachian Plateau, USA

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Evening field trips: Bat Flight, Cave Without A Name, Caverns of Sonora, Natural Bridge Caverns (1700-2400) Blue Tickets: Photographic Salons and Salon Awards, Cailloux Theater (in Kerrville)

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White Tickets: Photographic Salons and Salon Awards, Cailloux Theater (in Kerrville)

Room 163 (start at 1340)

Room 143

James et al. A cave survey for research and tourist cave management

Manno. Cave conservation through the arts: Carlsbad Caverns National Park’s art gallery Cao Jianhua et al. Preliminary studies on soil erosion intensity grading in southwest karst area, China

Coke. Preliminary developments for karst protection in Quintana Roo, Mexico Lipps et al. Ecotourism management plan for “El Sauce” Cavern, Piedras Grandes, Córdoba, Argentina Mitchell & Palit. Robber Baron: restoring an urban cave preserve

Zhang et al. Leye-Fengshan, a new applicant of global geopark in Guangxi, China

Wilson & Cousineau. Cave conservancy management

Breisch. Statistical analysis of American cave accident data

Punches et al. A rescue preplan for Lechuguilla Cave, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico USA Gomez-Bermudez. The importance of geography and GIS in underground rescue

Break Arts & Humanities – General Chairmen: L. Cohen & J. Chabert

Break

Dodelin. The international trainings of cave rescue organized by the French since 1997

Pérez. Venezuela’s Chaima indigenous community and its relation to national speleological practice Frantz. Always ready cave photography

Chabert. Speleophilately: some odd cave stamps

Deriaz & Bernasconi. 38 years of publication of the Speleological Abstracts

Veni. National and international partnership building for speleology: U.S. National Cave and Karst Research Institute

Thursday afternoon, July 23, 2009

Niemiller & Miller. Survey of the cave-associated herpetofauna of eastern US McDermid & Gluesenkamp. Salamanders of the genus Eurycea at Camp Bullis, Bexar County, Texas USA

Other Meetings

Parzefall. Behavioral ecology of aquatic salamanders colonizing subterranean habitats

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Norris. Recent records of epigean salamanders (genus Eurycea) from central Texas springs

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National Speleological Foundation meeting: CH112

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O’Donnell & Gluesenkamp. Estimation of Jollyville Plateau salamander populations using surface counts and mark-capture

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Niemiller et al. Systematics and evolutionary history of subterranean Gyrinophilus salamanders

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Break Evol./Ecol. of Salamanders Chairmen: A. Gluesenkamp & B. Sket

Novomeský. Light-emitting diodes in the illumination of show caves

Cave Rescue Chairmen: Rich Breisch & C. Dodelin

Cave/Karst Management Chairmen: J. Werker & C. Mouret

Room 138

ICKSM: Protected Areas Chairmen: P. Seiser & C. Grebe

Posters: Cave and Karst Geology Session

Lobby

Evol./Ecol. of Salamanders Chairmen: A. Gluesenkamp & B. Sket

Mountaineer Center

Break

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Bonett & Fenolio. Biogeography and evolution of subterranean salamanders

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Bendik et al. The biogeography and rapid radiation of central Texas neotenic salamanders

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Chippindale et al. Texas cave and spring salamanders (Eurycea): new discoveries and new surprises Fenolio & Bonett. Recent findings about the biology, ecology, and systematics of the grotto salamander, Eurycea spelaea

National Speleological Foundation meeting: CH112 International SpeleoArt Mural Project: MS203

Collier et al. Sampling elusive species in karst environments: design and demographic modeling considerations

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Evening field trips: Bat Flight, Cave Without A Name, Caverns of Sonora, Natural Bridge Caverns (1700-2400) Blue Tickets: Photographic Salons and Salon Awards, Cailloux Theater (in Kerrville)

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White Tickets: Photographic Salons and Salon Awards, Cailloux Theater (in Kerrville)

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Friday morning, 24 July 2009

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Baptiste et al. Research priorities for underground ecosystems in Colombia

Break

Badino. Thermal sedimentation in caves: a note

Badino & Chignola. The sound of natural caves

Grebe et al. 130 years of study, Schellenberger Ice Cave & ice caves at Untersberg (Berchtesgadener Limestone Alps, Germany) Wiles et al. Cave climate studies and the potential extent of the Jewel Cave System Break

Krejca et al. The cave fauna of Texas, USA

Sutton. Cave communities in Missouri – a comparison of nutrient rich and nutrient poor settings Muñoz-Saba et al. Biospeleological provinces in Columbia

Moldovan. Ecological studies in interstitial habitats of Romanian Carpathians (eastern Europe) Holsinger et al. Development and application of a database for the subterranean amphipod crustacean Stygobromus and Bactrurus Brick. Guanophile ecosystem of an urban cave polluted with raw sewage Lunch

Badino. The Cueva de los Cristales micrometeorology

Mitchell & Mitchell. Airflow and CO2 in Robber Baron Cave, Texas USA

Ek & Godissart. Extreme increase of CO2 in Belgian caves

Prelovšek. Influence of meteorology on speleothem deposition: example from Križna Jama, Slovenia

Mylroie & Mylroie. Flank margin cave development as syndepositional caves: examples from the Bahamas Taboroši et al. Coastal discharge features from an uplifted carbonate island aquifer: northern Guam, Mariana Islands Stafford et al. Eogenetic karst of the carbonate islands of the northern Marianas Moore. Effects of continental overprinting on cave development in eogenetic karst: example from the Florida-Bahamas Platform Break

Pflitsch & Ringeis. Jewel Cave & Wind Cave, differences and commonalities, two large cave systems in South Dakota Pflitsch & Ringeis. Jewel Cave and Wind Cave vs. one Black Hills Cave System, USA

Dietert Auditorium

Introductory Remarks Island Karst Symposium Chairmen: J. Mylroie & A. Ginés

Paquin & Dupérré. Cryophily to troglomorphy: morphological and molecular evidence for genus Cicurina (Araneae)

Frumkin. Dating a biblical lady: an unroofed salt cave gives birth to Lot’s wife

Theater

Kambesis et al. Coastal karst of Caguanes National Park, Sancti Spiritus, Cuba

Lace & Kambesis. Coastal speleogenesis in Puerto Rico

Ginés et al. Cave surveying and cave patterns in the southeastern coastal karst of Mallorca Island (Spain)

Showing of SpeleMedia Video Winners - see schedule outside Theater

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Giovine et al. The Naica Caves and human physiology

Ballroom 3

Island Karst Symposium Chairmen: J. Mylroie & A. Ginés

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Cave and Karst Ecology 1 Chairmen: J. Lewis & A. Clarke

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White. Speleogenesis in Cenozoic limestones on a passive continental margin: southeastern Australia De Waele et al. On the origin of dissolution pipes

International Journal of Speleology Advisory Meeting

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Friday morning, 24 July 2009 Mountaineer Center

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Weary & Pierce. Geophysical prospecting for spring conduit in the Ozarks (USA) using audiomagnetotelluric soundings Gary et al. Detection of sub-travertine lakes using electrical resistivity imaging, Sistema Zacatón, Mexico Prikryl et al. Characterization of karst solutional features using highresolution electrical resistivity surveys Weissling. Electrical resistivity imaging and synthetic modeling of an inferred collapse structure – Inner Space Caverns, Crispim. The use of ground penetrating radar in karst areas: methodology, feasibility and interpretation

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Introductory Remarks Educating Citizens Chairmen: C. Zokaites & J. Anderson

Advances in Karst Geophysics Chairmen: B. Smith & O. Lima

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Wenger & Jeannin. Towards a positioning system for the subterraneous world (U-GPS) Kenney et al. Mapping of karst solutional features using remote sensor technology Morel et al. Instrumentation to study site effect examples Choranche Cave (France) and Madre de Dios Archipelago (Chile)

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Anderson. Karst education in Western Australia

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Aretaki. Cave environmental education: the Greek example

Groves et al. US/Chinese efforts in water resource development in southwest China’s karst regions through education

International SpeleoArt Mural Project: MS203 Karst Management Strategies Meeting: MS106 Photographic Salon Critiques: Library Speleology for Cavers: CH218 Survey & Cartography Workshop: MS211/M212

Snider et al. IDEC: an imagery data extraction collaborative and education tool for cave and karst Schindel et al. The Devil’s Sinkhole Lidar Project, Edwards County, Texas, USA Neubert et al. Lidar-3-D photo real modeling of Devil’s Sinkhole in Rocksprings, Texas, USA

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Pruner et al. Paleomagnetism and magnetostratigraphy of cave sediments in Slovenia

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Am Ende. Discrimination between caves, overhangs, and large vugs using longwave infrared imaging

NSS Board of Governors meeting Advances in Karst Geophysics Chairmen: B. Smith & O. Lima

Posters: Arts and Humanities Session Frontiers in Cave Mineralogy Symposium; Karst Geophysics Symposium Secrets of the Past – Speleothem Studies Symposium

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(start at 1230) UIS Great Caves Commission: Dietert Class.

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Meleg et al. Small-scale spatial distribution of aquatic fauna in caves from northwestern Romania (eastern Europe) Richards. Visual observations of the macroscopic life in Puerto Rican caves Pekins. Cave Myotis (Myotis velifer incautus) roost monitoring and protection on Fort Hood Army Installation, Texas, USA Break Muñoz-Saba et al. Energy flow in caves with artropofauna with special reference to (Santander) Colombian caves López et al. Structure characterization of arthropod fauna community in cave of “The Rascadero,” Santander, Columbia Myers. Methods for counting cave crickets

Poulson. New studies of Speoplatyrhinus poulsoni (Pisces: Amblyopsidae)

Lavoie et al. Effects of missing legs on distribution and jumping behavior in the cave cricket, Hadenoecus subterraneus

Self. Caves formed by cambering in the southern Cotswold Hills, England

Trappe. Classification of karst deposits from the Franconian Alb (southern Germany) Zhang. Large caves in China

Chen & Xuewen. Tiankengs in the karst of China

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Photographic Projected Images Salon Critique

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Island Karst Symposium Chairmen: J. Mylroie nd A. Ginés

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Lewis. Zoogeography and evolution of the subterranean asellid isopods of North America

Lightning Talks

Otoničar. Cave sediments related to Cretaceous – Tertiary paleokarst in eogenetic carbonate rocks, Slovenia and Croatia De Waele et al. Speleogenesis of extensive underwater caves along the Gulf of Orosei (center-east Sardinia, Italy) Merino et al. Cova des Pas de Vallgornera: an exceptional littoral cave from Mallorca Island (Spain) Ginés et al. Genesis of an exceptional coastal cave Mallorca Island, lithological control over pattern and morphology Gilli & Cavalera. Salt contamination of karstic springs related to Messinian deep stage: Port Miou (France) Break

Island Karst Symposium Chairmen: J. Mylroie & A. Ginés

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Maire et al. Geomorphic and archeological features of coastal caves in Madre de Dios Archipelago (Patagonia, Chile) Tuccimel et al. Precipitation of phreatic overgrowths: a useful tool in sea level change reconstruction Gràcia et al. Corrosion related to meteoric-marine mixing zone in coastal cave systems of Mallorca Island (western Mediterranean) Onac et al. New minerals in caves from San Salvador Island, Bahamas

Iepure et al. Environmental features, copepod diversity, and distribution patterns in coastal caves on Mallorca Island, Spain

Evening field trip: Bat Flight (1800-2300) National Speleological Society Awards Banquet (must take vans to banquet location, vans start at 1700)

Friday afternoon, 24 July 2009 Mountaineer Center Room 138

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Room 163

Educating Citizens Chairmen: C. Zokaites & J. Anderson

Posters: Educating Citizens about Karst Symposium

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NSS Board of Governors meeting

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Other Meetings

Meehan. Flying the flag for karst and geodiversity in NSW, Australia

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Karst Sediments and Sinkholes Chairmen: D. Doctor & J. DeWaele

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Land. Anthropogenic sinkholes in the Delaware Basin region of west Texas and southeastern New Mexico, USA Garašić. Problems with caverns which were found on the route of the highways in Croatian karst region (Dinaric Karst) Mihevc. Collapse dolines of the Divača Karst, Kras Plateau, Slovenia

Zupan et al. Age of cave fills in Slovenia

Cheng & Yuan. Soil and karst processes of different land uses of vertical zoned climatic area, Jinfo Mtn., Chongqing, China Break

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Ford. From the Plains of Abraham to Dodo Canyon: remarkable dolomite karst in permafrost in the MacKenzie Mountains, Ford & Worthington. New Research in the South Nahanni Karst, MacKenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories, Canada Lu & He. Karst cave system types and their protection in China

Ruggieri & Abdelmalik. Cyrenaica Karst proect (north-eastern Lybia)

Ponta & Aldica. Geology and tectonics of Polovragi Cave – Romania

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SpeleMedia Videos & 3D Slide Shows - see schedule outside Theater

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International Destinations in Earth Science Chairmen: K. Stafford & P. Bosak

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Saturday morning, 25 July 2009 Mountaineer Center

Forti. Speleothems and living organisms: what kind of relationship?

Veni. Karst landscape evolution: impacts on speciation, biogeography, and protection of rare and endangered species Sprouse & Krejca. Karst invertebrate habitat and the role of excavation

Northup. Cave microbial communities: is protection necessary and possible?

Krejca & Weckerly. Detection probabilities of karst invertebrates in central Texas, USA Moldovan. On rarity and the vulnerability of subterranean fauna.

Mihevc. Cave animals in show caves in Slovenia

Kunz & Arnett. Bats: going...going...gone with the wind!

Hristov et al. Conservation & management of Brazilian free-tailed bat: colony size and activity patterns using thermal imaging Buecher & Goodbar. Gating a cave protects a bat colony...eventually

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Room 163

Other Meetings

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(start 0800) International Union for Conservation of Nature World Biospheres Business Meeting

NSS Survey & Cartography Section: MS106

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Castellani & Cigna. Some aspects of speleogenesis in extraterrestrial environment: 2-Moon and Venus

08500910 BCRA Map Grades/ UIS map grades – Use, limitations, improvement: MS106

Kempe. Principles of pyroduct (lava tunnel) formation

(0930-1200) NSS Video Section: CH104/105

Halliday. Unusual rheogenic caves of the 1919 “Postal Rift” lava flow, Kilauea Caldera, Hawaii, USA Kempe & Henschel. Interpreting the genesis of Thurston Lava Cave, Kilauea, Hawai‘i, USA

Halliday. Mineral-lined thermal erosion channels in a hollow tumulus complex, Kilauea Caldera, Hawaii, USA Medville et al. Seventeen years beneath Hualalai: a summary of caving experience (2) Bosted & Bosted. Exploration of Manu Nui Lava Tube, Hawai‘i, USA

Kempe et al. Archaeology and 14C dates of the Kamakalepo/Waipouli/Sto nehenge area, Nahalehu, Hawaii, USA Snider et al. Identification of microbial communities associated with roots in lava tubes in New Mexico and Hawaii, USA Moya et al. Composition of bacterial mats in New Mexico, USA: comparison and contrasts with bacterial communities in Hawai‘i UIS Volcanic Caves Commission

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Protection of Rare Fauna Chairmen: C. Watson & O. Moldovan

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Castellani & Cigna. Some aspects of speleogenesis in extraterrestrial environments: 1-Mercury and Mars

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Cave and Karst Ecology 3 Chairmen: P. Boston & J.M. Gonzalez

White & Paquin. Phylogeographic modeling of Edwards Aquifer karst, management tool for rare species in central Texas

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Lava Caves Symposium Chairmen: S. Kempe & W.R. Halliday

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Protection of Rare Fauna Chairmen: C. Watson & O. Moldovan

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Kunz et al. White-nose syndrome in hibernating bats: are these affected bats the next “canary in the mine?”

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Lauritzen. Carbonate dissolution in cold water: in situ experiments and the consequences for subglacial karstification Garašic & Garašić. Geologic & hydrogeologic conditions in speleogenesis of the longest and deepest caves in karst of Croatia Middleton et al. Stratigraphic and structural control of cave development in Sinkhole Flat, Eddy County, New Mexico, USA Bird et al. Effects of surface morphologies on flow behavior in karst conduits Kempe et al. The sinkholes of Layla Lakes: Saudi Arabia and their singular sub-lacustrine gypsum tufa Break

Intntl. Destinations in Earth Sci. Chairmen: K. Stafford & P. Bosak

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Leél-Össy. Crystal caves in Hungary

Kashima & Kuwahara. Evidence of hydrothermal speleogenesis in the Akka Limestone, northern Kitakami Massif, Japan Gradziński et al. Cave development influenced by hydrocarbon oxidation: an example from the Polish Tatra Mountains Hose. Recent observations in a remarkably dynamic, sulfide-rich, hypogenic cave in southern Mexico Faulkner. The general model of cave development in the metalimestones of the Caledonide Terranes

International Congress of Speleological Banquet (must take vans to banquet location, vans start at 1700)

Saturday afternoon, 25 July 2009 Mountaineer Center Clamons & Paquin. The role of karst fauna areas in the advancement of karst conservation in central Texas, USA Sket & Gabrovšek. Conservation of species on the wrong track? Is conservation of species losing its way? Carothers et al. Regional habitat conservation planning in karst terrain, Williamson County, Texas, USA Casavant et al. Inciting public interest and professional partnerships in the inventorying and monitoring of cave

Room 143 Lava Caves Symposium Chairmen: S. Kempe & W.R. Halliday

Room 138 Protection of Rare Fauna Chairmen: C. Watson & O. Moldovan

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Lera. Cave protection acts: are they effective?

Nolfi. Cave and karst management in Great Smoky Mountains National Park Pérez & Galindo. Guides of Venezuela’s Guacharo Cave: historical and ethnographic study of locals’ contributions Neilson et al. Monitoring of microbial populations in Kartchner Caverns State Park – cost-effective management and outreach Willsey et al. A comparative cave climate study in Arizona – partnerships in cave management and climate change modeling

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Halliday. Medical and governmental considerations of CO2 and O2 in volcanic caves

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Dillon et al. High precision U/Th dating of recent lava flows using syngenetic non-silicate cave minerals

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Medville & Medville. Possible lava tube in the San Luis Valley and southeastern San Juan Mountains, Colorado, USA

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Halliday & Ek. A steeply inclined Pliocene (?) lava tube cave in Death Valley National Park, California, USA

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Benedetto. Pahoehoe and lava tubes in Payunia, North Patagonia, Argentina Break

Lava Caves Symposium Chairmen: S. Kempe & W.R. Halliday

ICKMS: Govt./Caves Chairmen: H. Mallonee & E. Hamilton-Smith

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Tawk et al. As-Suwayda lava caves (southern Syria): speleological study combining geology and history

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What’s In Your Cave Pack? (1400-1700): MS211 SpeleOlympics Awards Ceremony (1630-1730): Robbins Lewis Pavilion

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Chairmen: Val Hildreth-Werker & Jim Werker

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Chairmen: Bill Stone & Rob Eavis

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Hot News in Science and Management (see On the Horizon or calendar posted outside of the room for the schedule)

Chairmen: Hazel Barton & Augusto Auler

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Chairmen: Hazel Barton & Augusto Auler

Evening field trip: Caverns of Sonora (1700-2400) Dinner Evening Farewell (Robbins Lewis Pavilion)

SpeleMedia Videos & 3D Slide Shows - see schedule outside Theater

Cave Restoration Seminar

Hot News in Exploration (see On the Horizon or calendar posted outside of the room for the schedule)

UIS General Assembly and Closing Ceremony

15th International Congress of Speleology Poster Sessions Monday afternoon Biology of Cave and Karst Systems Poster Session Colombian bats from the caves. Muñoz-Saba, Yaneth, Manuel Antonio Hoyos-Rodríguez, Diego CasallasPabón. Description of the biota on a representative sample of the systems of karst (Guanentina Region and Vélez Province) Santander – Colombia. Casallas-Pabón, Diego, Mario Andrés Murcia López, Yaneth Muñoz-Saba. Effects of incubation conditions on quantification of chemoheterotrophic bacteria from caves. Lavoie, Kathleen H., Diana E. Northup, Jessica R. Snider, Nwamaka A. Nwagbologu. Field metrics for cave stream bio-integrity. Poulson, Thomas L. Hot caves record in Mexico. Aguilar, Saúl, Ada Ruiz, Juan Morales-Malacara. Invertebrate colonization and deposition rates of guano in a man-made bat cave, the Chiroptorium, Texas, USA. Lavoie, Kathleen H., Diana E. Northup. Preliminary report on the cave Diplura of Colorado (Hexapoda: Diplura: Campodeidae). Ferguson, Lynn M. Review and assessment of known cavernicoles and rare epigean biology of karst and caves, Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Nolfi, Daniel C. Spatial and temporal distribution of terrestrial macroinvertebrates in Lehman Caves, a tourist cave in Great Basin National Park, Nevada, USA. Taylor, Steven J., Jean K. Krejca, Michael E. Slay. Untangling the webs in California’s caves: The biogeography and systematics of the cave spider genus Usofila. Ledford, Joel, Charles Griswold, Rosemary Gillespie. Symposium 5 Posters: Geomicrobiology of Cave and Karst Environments An autonomous robotic exploration of deep phreatic sinkholes reveals a wealth of microbial diversity. Sahl, Jason W., J. Kirk Harris, Marcus O. Gary, Bill Stone, John R. Spear. Biodiversity and biogeography of extremely acidic sulfidic cave snottites. Jones, D.S., J.L. Macalady. Evidence of ammonia oxidizing archaeal community in the Gruta da Caridade, Rio Grande do Norte State, Brazil. De Freitas Kramer, Marcelo Augusto, Lucymara Fassarela Agnez-Lima. Microbial activity in the removal of xenobiotic compounds from karst aquifers. Iker, B., B. Lubbers, P. Kambesis, H.A. Barton. Microbially induced calcitic moonmilk deposits lead to inhibition of microbial activity in caves. Janices, I., M.C. Portillo, S. Cuezva, J.M. Gonzalez, J.C. Cañaveras, S. Sanchez-Moral.

Tracing the origins of chromophoric dissolved organic matter in karst aquifers. Brannen, Kathleen M., Annette Summers Engel, Justin E. Birdwell. Symposium 10 Posters: Protection and Management of Rare and Endangered Subterranean Fauna Biogeographical distribution of subterranean fauna in Apulia (Italy), in the context of the paleogeographical evolution of the area. Inguscio, Salvatore, Emanuela Rossi, Mario Parise. Management of endangered karst invertebrates on the Balcones Canyonlands Preserve, Austin, TX. O’Connor, Kathleen M., Mark Sanders, Paul Fushille. Preserve design for endangered karst invertebrates in Bexar County, Texas. Watson, Cynthia A.

Tuesday Morning Exploration of Cave and Karst Systems Poster Session Dalovica Pecina, Montenegro. Sirotek, Jan, Zdenĕk Motyčka. Detailed speleological topography Angel Cave (Lucena, Córdoba, Spain). Rodríguez-Rojas, Fernando. Laser scanning use in cave contexts: The cases of Castellana (Italy) and Naica (Mexico). Canevese, Erminio Paolo, Roberta Tedeschi, Paolo Forti. New light on old Guadalupian caves: Grays Cave rediscovered and Hamblens Cave entrance lost. Queen, J.M., M.O. Rosacker, A. Stockton. Priego Subterranean Exploration Group (GESP). 50 years of speleology in Priego de Cordoba (Cordoba – Spain). Rodríguez-Rojas, Fernando. Sistema Sima de la Cornisa – Torca Magali (-1507 m) (Picos de Europa, Spain). Masschelein, Jan, David de Roest, David Lagrou, Wim Janse, Vicent Coessens. Sub-alpine karst in northern New Mexico. Ganter, John, John T.M. Lyles. Tham Khoun Xe of Khammouane Province, Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR). Kambesis, Patricia, Bob Osburn, John Pollack, Aaron Addison, Dave Bunnell. The history of caving packs. McCrea, Scott. The Kronio Project: A first note. Badino, Giovanni, Antonio de Vivo, Roberto Prelli, Francesco Sauro, Giuseppe Savino, Spartaco Savio, Roberta Tedeschi. Tláloc 2008 exploración – Mexico-Italia, Hueytamalco, Puebla, Mexico. Domínguez-Navarro, J., S. Santana-Muñoz, M. Díaz-Ávila, E. Hernández-Vargas, C. Cruz-García, M Garcés-Trenado, J. Trujillo-López, M. Mangas-Moreno, J. Madrigal-Gómez, V. Cruz-García, G. Pérez-Montes, A. Rodríguez-López, R. ÁlvarezRangel, D. Brugali, A. Buzio, F. Camillieri, A. Corna, F. Finali, R. Gaiti, A. Iemmolo, N. Manno, F. Merisio, G. Pannuzzo, S. Piccitto, S. Virgillito, F. Vitale, G. Zaccaria. Webster Cave complex survey update. Tobin, Benjamin, Andrea Croskrey, Benjamin Hutchin, Chris Anderson.

Tuesday Afternoon Symposium 1 Posters: Archaeology and Paleontology in Caves Archaeology in Brazilian caves. Xavier, Leandro A.F., Divaldo R. Sampaio. Mgharet Al-Hourriye: A speleo-archaeological project. Abdul-Nour, Hani, Samer Amhaz, Lorine Mouawad, Badr Jabbour-Gedeon. New researches in a famous karst area: The cradle of humankind (Gauteng, South Africa). Bruxelles, Laurent, Jose Braga, Francis Durathon, Francis Thackeray. Symposium 13 Posters: 2009 International Cave and Karst Management Symposium: Worldwide Horizons in Cave and Karst Management Classifying cave environments based on the energy flow levels (Case study of the Cave of Santana, Sao Paulo State, Brazil). Lobo, Heros Augusto Santos, José Alexandre de Jesus Perinotto, Paulo César Boggiani, Ivo Karmann, Silmara Zago, Fábio Leonardo Tomaz, Stanislas Pourou, Oduvaldo Viana Júnior. Complex speleological exploration of Kapova Cave (Shulgantash) as basis for protection of its unique paleolithic painting. Lyahnizkiy, Y.S., A.A. Yushko, O.A. Minnikov, O.J. Chervyazova. Development and spatial distribution of karst systems on the Tongass National Forest, southeast Alaska. Baichtal, James F., Johanna L. Kovarik. Karst features discovered during motorway construction. Knez, Martin, Tadej Slabe. Mammoth Cave International Center for Science and Learning. Toomey, Rickard S., III, Shannon R. Trimboli, Robert H. Ward, Mike Adams, Blaine Ferrell. Sedimentology of particulate accumulation and its remediation, Skull Ice Cave, Lava Beds National Monument, California, U.S.A. Tinsley, John C., III, Kenneth Miller, Robert A. Johnson. Shilin – lithological characteristics, form and rock relief of the Lunan Stone Forests (South China karst). Knez, Martin, Tadej Slabe. Symposium 11 Posters: Speleogenesis in Regional Geological Evolution and Its Role in Karst Hydrogeology and Geomorphology Correlation between passage levels in the Bellamar Cave System and marine terraces surrounding the Bay of Matanzas, Cuba. González-Quevedo, Esteban Grau, Ivonne Vázquez de la Torre, Humberto Fernández Ramos. Evolution of Portuguese karst regions in a basin-inversion setting: Importance of faulting and confinement on cave development and spring locations. Crispim, José António. Geologic setting, structure, tectonic history and paleokarst as factors in speleogenesis in the Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico and Texas, USA. Queen, J. Michael. Hypogenic speleogenesis in the Piedmont Crimea range. Klimchouk A.B., E.I. Tymokhina, and G.N. Amelichev.

Origin and development of the Dam-Valley Lakes and related karst hydrogeologic systems: Amtkeli River (western Caucasus). Amelichev, G.N., B.A. Vakhrushev, V.N. Dublyanskiy. Pre-drainage development of the caves of the Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico and Texas, USA. Queen, J. Michael. Regional geologic evolutionary effects on speleogenesis at Villa Luz Park, Tabasco, Mexico. RosalesLaGarde, Laura, Penelope J. Boston, Andrew Campbell, Dana Ulmer-Scholle, Peter Scholle. Relations between speleogenesis and surface morphogenesis of an exhumed karst plain (the Slunj Karst Plain, Dinaric Karst, Croatia). Bočić, Neven. The geomorphological mapping of Kanaan Cave, Lebanon: A new approach in the speleogenesis of a cave. Nehme, Carole K. The speleogenesis of Kanaan Cave, Lebanon: Geomorphological interpretation and paleoenvironment records of Antelias Region. Nehme, Carole K.

Thursday Morning Hydrology of Cave and Karst Systems Poster Session Fluorescence characterization of karst aquifers. Brown, Terri, Sid Jones, Larry McKay. Geommicrobiology and hydrology of pool precipitates in the Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico, USA. Kooser, Ara, Laura Crossey, Diana Northup, Mike Spilde, Leslie Melim. Groundwater/surface-water relations and water quality within the Mammoth Spring watershed, Markagunt Plateau, southwestern Utah, USA. Spangler, Lawrence E. Hidden Spring – a long-known resurgence with a newly identified carbonate aquifer chemistry in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, California, U.S.A. Tinsley, John C., III. Karst and groundwater in northeastern Coahuila: An Edwards Aquifer mirror. Sprouse, Peter. Monitoring dripwater chemistry in El Refugio Cave (southern Spain) as a contribution to understanding infiltration and speleogenetic processes in karst aquifers. Mudarra, M., B. Andreo, I.J. Fairchild, J.A. Barbera, I. Vadillo. Study of the localization of the pits in the Plateau of Jurd Afqa (Mount Lebanon) using a geographical information system (GIS). Gerard, Pierre-Charles, Badr Jabbour-Gédéon. The cadmium forms in the soil of karst region and their effects on water quality. Xie Yunqiu, Zhang Min, Deng Yan. The Grand Coyer Karst, exploration at the Coulomp Spring (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France). Audra, Philippe, Ludovic Mocochain, Jean-Yves Bigot, Jean-Claude D’Antoni-Nobecourt. 20 years of monitoring, tests and experiments in the Milandre Cave, Jura Mountains, Switzerland: Inputs for karst hydrogeology. Jeannin, Pierre-Yves. Symposium 6 Posters: Inventory of Cave and Karst Resources Cave inventory situation in Central America. Didonna, Ferdinando, Carlos Goicoechea, Gustavo Quesada, Andres Ulloa. Examples of UIS Informatics Commission work. Matthews, Peter. Karst potential index: A tool for mapping karst at the regional scale. Currens, James C., Randall L. Paylor, Matthew M. Crawford.

Thursday Afternoon Geology of Cave and Karst Systems Poster Session A major unmapped fault in Ganter Cave, and possible geomorphological effects on Turnhole Bend of Green River, Mammoth Cave National Park. Olson, Rickard A., Rickard S. Toomey. Bellholes and bellbasins: Biogenic (bat) cave features of Puerto Rico and the neotropics. Miller, Thomas E., Maria Figueroa-Mulet. Caves of Costa Rica (Central America) and their geologic origin. Ulloa, Andrés. Decline of cave ice – a case study from the Austrian Alps (Europe) based on 416 years of observation. Behm, Michael, Veronika Dittes, Robert Greilinger, Helga Hartmann, Lukas Plan, Dieter Sulzbacher. Evolution of the Biśnik Cave environment (Krakow-Wielun Upland, southern Poland). Kasprowska, Katarzyna, Viacheslav Andreychouk. Fracture control of caves in marble: Earthquake mediated? Examples from Scandinavia. Lauritzen, Stein-Erik. Geomorphological evolution and digital mapping of the Ksiromero Region, western Greece. Deligianni, Miljana Golobović, Kosmas Pavlopoulos, George Veni, Issaak Parcharidis. Geomorphology of the Boquerones Cave System, Sancti Spiritus, Cuba. Despain, Joel, Pat Kambesis, Javier Mugica Jeronimo, Cyndie Walck. Identifying hypogenic features in Greek caves. Vaxevanopoulos, M. Influence of the solar and geomagnetic activity on cave climate. Stoeva, Penka, Alexey Stoev, Trifon Daaliev. International caving studying thermographic anomalies of cave or lava tube entrances for NASA, analog Moon and Mars. Thompson, Jim. Karst cave features of Mongolia. Avirmed, E. Karst microclimate monitoring in the northern Alps, Austria: Initial results. Curtis, Aaron. Microclimatic changes during the total solar eclipse on August 11, 1999 and their impact on bat colony activity. Stoev, Alexey, Penka Stoeva, Trifon Daaliev. Mormon Lake – an Arizona USA polje. Schindel, Graham M., Geary M. Schindel. Morphological relationships between erratic boulders and associated bedrock limestone fins or “rock comets”, Madre de Dios Archipelago, Chile. Despain, Joel, Richard Maire, Stephan Jalliet.

Morphology of solution-dominated vs. clastic-dominated cave passages in the Caves Branch Karst, Belize. Miller, Thomas E. Natural history of Clay Cave, Napa County, California. Leissring, Matt, Rolf A. Aalbu, Bruce W. Rogers. The big cave and chambers in Poyue Underground River drainage in south China and its controlling factors. Huang Baojian, Zhang Yuanhai, Chen Weihai. The Lost City: Hot springs, mixing and a possible model for folia development. Queen, J. Michael.

Friday Morning Arts and Humanities Poster Session A cave survey project for the Duke of Edinburgh’s Silver Award. Kennedy, Stephen, Craig M. Barnes, Julia M. James. American underground: “Experiences out of time” and chronobiology. Chama, Allel. Evolution of speleology in Costa Rica. Goicoichea, Carlos, Gustavo Quesada, Andres Ulloa. Lidar-3-D photo real modeling of Devil’s Sinkhole in Rocksprings, Texas. Neubert, Bobbie, J.A. Bellian, Xueming Xu, Kevin McGowan, Geary M. Schindel, E. Calvin Alexander, Jr. Spelean history revealed when naming features for a cave survey. Whitby, Jenny L., Kath A. Bellamy, Julia M. James. Symposium 4 Posters: Frontiers in Cave Mineralogy Studies Describing the microstructure of a soda straw. Polyak, Victor J., Paula P. Provencio. Isotopic investigations on gypsum deposits from caves in central Italy. Menichetti, Marco, Mirona Ioana Chirienco, Bogdan P. Onac, Simon Bottrell. Mineral diversity in caves from Mallorca Island, Spain. Onac, Bogdan P., Joan J. Fornós, Àngel Ginés, Joaquin Ginés, Glen Hunt, Antoni Merino. Mineralogical and stable isotope investigations of minerals from caves on Cerna Valley (Romania). Onac, Bogdan P., Jonathan Sumrall, Tudor Tămaş, Cristina Cizmaş, Veronica Dârmiceanu, Ioan Povară, Lucian Nicolită. Symposium 8 Poster: Latest Advances in Karst Geophysics The distribution rule of paleo-karst collapse pillars in northern China and their new exploration methods. He Keqiang, Lu Yaoru. Symposium 12 Posters: Unearthing Secrets of the Past from Speleothem Studies Factors promoting preservation bias in speleothem growth. James, Eric W., Jay L. Banner. Heinrich event 4 in a Puerto Rico stalagmite. Onac, Bogdan P., Victor Polyak, Limaris Soto, Thomas E. Miller, Ana-Voica Bojar, Yemane Asmerom. Overcoming initial 230Th problems in uranium-series dating without using 234U/232Th – 230Th/232Th isochrons. Polyak, Victor, Yemane Asmerom. Sea level high stand at 81 ka: Evidences from coastal caves of Mallorca. Onac, Bogdan P., Jeffrey A. Dorale, Joan A Fornós, Angel Ginés, Paola Tuccimei, David W. Peate.

Friday Afternoon Symposium 2 Posters: Educating Citizens about Living in Karst Digital photography in support of the LiDAR project, Edwards County, Texas, USA. McGowan, Kevin, Xueming Xue, Allan B. Cobb. Guatemala show caves participative diagnostic. Didonna, Ferdinando, Lucrecia Gordillo, Nancy Mollinedo, Andres Ulloa. Learning package for teachers about caves and karst. Jeannin, Pierre-Yves, Urs Eichenberger. Say, what’s a cave? Dis, qu-est-ce qu’une grotte? Jabbour-Gedeon, Badr, Ghada Salem, Maya Chehab, Sara Zoghbi, Helene Richmany. School didactics on caves and caving in Italy. Badino, Giovanni, Daniele Berardi, Simona Bonardi, Giampiero Marchesi, Marco Ottalevi, Chiara Silvestro. Training, outreach, and exploration in the East Mountain Plateau, Mengzi County, Yunnan Province, China. Kambesis, Patricia, Chris Groves.

15th International Congress of Speleology & 2009 National Speleological Society Convention, Kerrville, Texas – See the daily schedule for details  Sun 19

ALL DAY

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Sun 26

NSS Section Meetings: • Medical Section • Communications & Electronics Federación Espeleológica de América Latina y del Caribe (FEALC)

NSS Section Meetings: • Cave Rescue • Photography • Paleontology • Conservation & Management

Field Trips (trips leave from 06000900)

NSS Section Meetings: • Cave Diving • Geology & Geography • American Spelean History Association • Speleophilatelic

NSS Section Meetings: • Digging • Human Sciences Federación Espeleológica de América Latina y del Caribe (FEALC)

NSS Section Meetings: • Survey & Cartography International Union for Conservation of Nature World Biospheres Meeting

Caving trips Vendors open Salons open

Caving trips Vertical Contests SpeleOlympics Salons open Vendors open SpeleMedia & 3D Slides

Caving trips Vertical Contests & Rebelay Training SpeleOlympics Salons open Vendors open SpeleMedia & 3D Slides

Field Trips Caving trips JSS Vertical Training Vendors open

Caving trips SpeleOlympics Salons open Vendors open SpeleMedia & 3D Slides

Caving trips SpeleOlympics Salons open Vendors open Largest Cave Maps Survey & Cartography Workshop Speleology for Cavers

Caving trips Salons open Vendors open SpeleMedia & 3D Slides Largest Cave Maps

Caving trips Salons open until 1200 Vendors open until 1200 SpeleMedia & 3D Slides

(0800-0830) Opening Ceremony: Dietert Auditorium

Symposia: • Geomicrobiology 1 • Speleogenesis • ICKMS Sessions: • Techniques, Equipment, & Projects NSS Board of Governors meeting SpeleoArt Classes

Symposia: • Speleogenesis • Speleothem Studies • ICKMS • ArcheologyPaleontology Sessions: • Cartographic Technology Posters: • Exploration Photography Workshop NCRC Business Meeting NSS Future Conventions Meeting SpeleoArt Field Trip to Cave Without A Name

Field Trips

Symposia: • Cave Mineralogy • Inventory of Resources Sessions: • General Exploration 2 • Hydrology 1 • History Posters: • Hydrology • Inventory of Resources Cave Diving Discussion NSS Cave Conservancies Meeting NSS Awards Committee – open meeting followed by closed meeting NSS Finance Forum NSS Vertical Section Meeting Vertical Workshop- starts 1100

Symposia: • Educating Citizens • Geophysics • Island Karst Sessions: • Ecology 1 • Geology 1 Posters: • Arts & Humanities • Cave Mineralogy • Geophysics • Speleothem Studies SpeleoArt Mural Project Survey & Cartography Workshop NSS Board of Governors meeting Karst Management Strategies Meeting SpeleMedia Winners Digging Reports and Techniques Discussion Salon Critiques: • Ballad Salon • Print Salon • Video Salon Viewing

Symposia: • Lava Caves • Protection of Rare Fauna Sessions: • Ecology 3 • Microbiology • Sediments & Sinkholes • Intern’l Destinations in Earth Sciences BCRA grades/UIS Grades: use, limits, improvement NSS Video Section Meeting

Symposia: • ICKMS Cave Restoration Seminar Sessions: • Hot News in Exploration • Hot News in Science and Management UIS General Assembly and Closing Ceremony

UIS Commission Meetings: • Physical Chemistry and Hydrogeology of Karst Commission • Bibliography • Département de la protection et de l'exploitation Microbiology & Geomicrobiology Lunch

UIS Commission Meetings: • Cave Rescue • Archeology & Paleontology • Karst Hydrology and Speleogenesis • Paleokarst & Speleochronology • Pseudokarst NSS Biology Section NCKMS Steering Committee

UIS Commission Meetings: • Cave Mineralogy • Diving (Plongée) NPS Employees Lunch

UIS Commission Meetings: • Great Caves of the World • International Journal of Speleology

UIS Commission Meetings: • Informatics • • Volcanic Caves

(1400-1730) Plenary Session Dietert Auditorium

Symposia: • Geomicrobiology 2 • Speleogenesis • ICKMS Sessions: • Exploration Project Summaries • Reconnaissance Projects Posters: • Geomicrobiology • Protection of Rare Fauna NSS BOG – closed meeting

Symposium: • Speleothem Studies • ArcheologyPaleontology Sessions: • General Cave Exploration I • Pseudokarst Posters: • Archeology & Paleontology • ICKMS • Speleogenesis NSS Congress of Grottos NSS HQ Open Forum UNESCO/ IGCP 513 NCKMS Steering Comm. SpeleoArt Field Trip to Cave Without A Name

NSS Stonewall Cavers: Dietert Classroom (following Plenary Session)

(1800-1900) Movie Premier – Texas Cavers: Dietert

Nittany Grotto Reunion: outside CAC Federación Espeleológica de América Latina y del Caribe (FEALC): TBD

UIS President’s Opening Gala: Cailloux Activity Center

Howdy Party: Robbins Lewis Pavilion at the Loud Campground

Open Microphone Night: Robbins Lewis Pavilion CRF, KWI, NCKRI Reception: CAC Ballroom Bat flight and Cave tours

Breakfast

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0830

Morning

(0900-1200) UIS General Assembly: Dietert Auditorium

Lunch

1230 (1300-1730) SpeleoArt Opening Reception for Salons: Library

NSS Arts & Letters Section Spelean Art Group

Late Afternoon

Afternoon

1400 Field Tips

Symposium: • Mineralogy Studies • ICKMS Protected Areas • Salamanders Sessions: • Arts & Humanities • Cave & Karst Management • Cave Rescue • Hydrology 2 & 3 Posters: • Geology White Nose Syndrome National Speleological Foundation Meeting SpeleoArt Mural Project Vertical Workshop Vertical Contest Awards Ceremony

Symposia: • Educating Citizens Sessions: • Ecology 2 • Geology 2 • Lightning Talks • Meteorology & Geology Posters: • Educating Citizens NSS Board of Governors meeting Salon Critiques: • Cartography Salon

Sessions: • Lava Caves • ICKMS Government Managed Caves • Protection of Rare Fauna Sessions: • Intern’l Destinations in Earth Sciences What’s in Your Cave Pack Workshop Convention/Congress Lessons Learned

Sessions: • Hot News in Exploration • Hot News in Science and Management UIS General Assembly and Closing Ceremony

SpeleOlympics Award Ceremony

Vertical Contest Derig: Edington Gym

Evening

1900 Auction: Dietert Terminal Syphons: Robbins Lewis

Salon Awards Program Bat flight and Cave tours

NSS Awards Banquet: Off campus location Bat flight trip

ICS Banquet: Off campus location

Evening Farewell: Robbins Lewis Pavilion Tour of Caverns of Sonora