Howdy Texas Cavers,
As you hopefully know, the Texas Speleological Survey collects,
organizes, and maintains information on Texas caves and karst, as well
as provides that data back to cavers who are actively out there caving
in the state. We recently overhauled our website which you need to
check out. The new site also has a new and wonderful online submission
tool for submitting data into our database. Last weekend at TCR I
talked with many folks who are actively finding, exploring, and
surveying caves. Some of this information has not been submitted to the
database. So I urge you to check out the new submission page and dig
out your recent surveys and cave data!
We had our first submission on the new website this week and would like
to thank Ben Hutchins for the submission! He also offered comments and
ideas on how we can improve it, so please feel free to do the same!
Thanks again Ben!
Why should you submit data? A quick story from this past week: A land
owner finds hole on his property, the land owner contacts cavers looking
for information on the cave. The caver requests data from TSS on caves
near land owner (thanks Gregg!). The caver shares this data with the
land owner and verifies that the cave has been explored and documented
already. Caver provides the owner a map, cave description, and photos
from TSS database. This saves the caver a long trip to a small cave,
and from having to remap and rephoto a previously mapped and
photographed cave, and makes the land owner happy. Now the caver has an
open invitation to come caving any time. This was made possible by a
wonderful symbiotic relationship between the TSS and caving public, and
by submitters like you!
So seriously folks, lets continue to share our data and improve caving
across the state!
Main TSS Website:
http://texasspeleologicalsurvey.org/index.php
Data Submission Page
http://texasspeleologicalsurvey.org/data_submit/submit_data_page_1.php
*Travis Scott*
TSS, TCMA, TSA, NSS, Porcupine Grotto, Old-ASS
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