Some of you may have known Rane. He is one of the NSS Luminary Speakers and can see his talk from a few years ago on the NSS Web Page.
Geary Sad Morning, Rane Curl's daughter announced this morning on Facebook that her father had passed away. Many of you knew Rane well, but here's his bio from the 2013 Luminary talks: In 1952, while laboring away in the Charleston, WV area on graduate work in chemical engineering at MIT, and dating a local lady, Rane had occasion to meet her brother—none other than the legendary WV caver John "Bud" Rutherford. Rane began caving with Rutherford and a teammate named Bob Handley. After returning to school in Cambridge, MA, Rane continued pursuing his new interest in caves with members of the Boston Grotto. After graduating in 1955, he moved to the bay area of California and—along with Bill Halliday, George Moore, and Howard Shugart—formed the San Francisco Bay Chapter of the NSS. In 1960, Rane and two co-authors penned the "NSS Policy for Cave Conservation." The next winter, he attended the 3rd ICS in Vienna, and then accepted a research appointment in London. While overseas, Rane embarked on a 12,000 kilometer motorcycle tour of Europe. Applying a chemical engineer's perspective to speleology, Dr. Curl has published on topics such as a statistical theory of cave entrance evolution; the relationship between cave scallop geometry and water flow velocity; the aragonite-calcite problem; and speleothem dating and growth. Among many other things, Rane chaired the 8th ICS, edited the first 4 issues of American Caving Accidents, and served as President of the NSS. Download a copy<https://caves.org/luminaries/Luminary_Rane_Curl-1.mp4> (48:57, 79 MB) Rane will be dearly missed. -- Nathan Farrar
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