texascavers Digest 21 Oct 2008 16:29:59 -0000 Issue 630
Topics (messages 9227 through 9233):
Re: [greater_houston_grotto] NSS camping
9227 by: George Veni
Re: 15th ICS - abstract deadline coming soon!
9228 by: Mixon Bill
ICS camping
9229 by: Gill Ediger
9230 by: George Veni
New Section on Deep and Punkin Nature Preserve on TCMA Web Page
9231 by: Geary Schindel
Gigantic River Cave Revealed in Laos
9232 by: Lee H. Skinner
October issue of the Oztotl Caver
9233 by: speleosteele.tx.rr.com
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There are six lodging options for the ICS.
On campus:
1) Loud campground: located in the vicinity of the pavilion where the Howdy
Party, Terminal Syphons Concert, and other evening social events will occur.
2) Quiet campground: Located on the opposite side of the Schreiner
University campus. Both campgrounds are only a 1-5 minute walk from the
sessions. Portable toilets, caver-built showers, and toilets and showers in
the campus gymnasium will be available for the campgrounds. Combined, the on
campus campgrounds total 27 acres.
3) Dormitories: Two beds in one air conditioned room. In three of the four
dorm buildings, two rooms share one bathroom. In the fourth building (and
last to be filled), 10 rooms share one large communal bathroom.
4) Apartments: Two bedrooms per apartments, with one bed per bedroom and one
private bathroom per bedroom. They have a communal area plus a kitchen, but
no utensils or cooking supplies.
Off campus:
5) A diverse group of hotels and motels.
6) Kerrville-Schreiner Park: This is the park where TSA convention was held
last spring and will likely occur again next spring. The ICS has reserved
the area near the Guadalupe River, the same area where the TSA Convention
occurred. Reservations for this area will be only for the ICS until 31 March
2009, after which any unreserved spots will be available to the general
public. Key reasons to camp here are if you want direct access to the river,
have an RV (not allowed in the Schreiner University campgrounds) or pets
(also not allowed at Schreiner). Keep in mind that pets must not be left
unaccompanied. If you bring a pet to Kerrville, bring friends or family
members so at least someone can stay with the pet at the park. Another
option is to coordinate among cavers coming with pets and rotate pet-sitting
duties among a larger group. If you've made reservations at the park but
were not aware that this area is reserved for the ICS, call the park to
change your reservation to that area if needed and desired.
Details on lodging options and all other aspects of the ICS are posted on
the ICS website: www.ics2009.us. Maps of on-campus camping are currently
being drafted and will be posted as soon as they are ready. Select
"Accommodations", 7th from the bottom of the menu on the left side of the
website's pages, for more information, including the exact campsite numbers
reserved for the ICS at Kerrville-Schreiner Park.
George
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From: Sheryl Rieck [mailto:shri...@cableone.net]
Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008 9:09 AM
To: speleoste...@tx.rr.com; germa...@aol.com
Cc: Texascavers@texascavers.com
Subject: RE: [Texascavers] Fwd: [greater_houston_grotto] NSS camping
I guess because I didn't know there was a campsite at the convention? More
info, please?
Sheryl
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From: speleoste...@tx.rr.com [mailto:speleoste...@tx.rr.com]
Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008 9:23 AM
To: germa...@aol.com
Cc: Texascavers@texascavers.com
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Fwd: [greater_houston_grotto] NSS camping
Why not camp at the convention site? The noise will be caver noise, music to
the ears of a caver.
Bill
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Forwarded by Bill Mixon -------
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From: ICS 2009 eList <secret...@ics2009.us>
List-Post: texascavers@texascavers.com
Date: October 19, 2008 6:49:09 PM CDT
To: bmi...@alumni.uchicago.edu
Subject: 15th ICS - abstract deadline coming soon!
Dear Friends,
The 15th International Congress of Speleology (ICS) begins exactly 9
months from today! As the ICS rapidly approaches, I have two important
and related reminders:
1) If you plan to give a presentation at the ICS, either an oral paper
or a poster paper for the sessions or symposia, you must submit an
abstract. The abstract deadline is only 6 weeks away: 1 December 2008.
NSS Members, notice that this is much earlier than the usual abstract
deadline for NSS Conventions. By 1 January 2009, everyone will be
notified if their abstract is accepted. The reason for this early
abstract deadline is because the abstracts should be expanded into
full papers, and the deadline for papers is 1 February 2009. The
papers will be reviewed, revised if needed, with the final version of
the paper submitted by 7 April 2009 for compilation into the ICS
Proceedings. For complete details, including guidelines on how to
prepare your paper, visit: http://www.ics2009.us/papers.html. Papers
on all topics related to caves and karst are welcome.
2) Everyone submitting a paper must be registered for the ICS. Please
register before the 1 February 2009 paper deadline so you can qualify
for the lowest possible registration rates. The price of registration
increases on 1 February.
We are working to have on-line registration ready as soon as possible.
We discovered some technical problems and moved the ICS website to a
new server. If you notice any errors or problems with the website, it
may be a result of this change. Please let us know. We believe we have
fixed all of the problems (and we are rapidly improving the
translations on the non-English pages). I expect we will test on-line
registration within a week. Once we are confident that it is working
and ready for your use, I will let you know.
George Veni, Ph.D.
Chairman, 15th International Congress of Speleology
Adjunct Secretary, International Union of Speleology
Executive Director, U.S. National Cave and Karst Research Institute
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At 10:54 AM 10/19/2008, George Veni wrote:
There are six lodging options for the ICS.
Hmmm. Are the convention site campgrounds free-for-all? Can we camp
in one one night and the other the following night? There may be
reasons for wanting to be close to one particular action or
another--or to bed afterward.
--Ediger
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If you want to move your camp site from one side of the campus to the other,
you are welcome to. I expect all dorms and apartments will be reserved by
around the end of this year. To reserve on-campus lodging (camping, dorms,
or apartments), use the ICS registration form. Off campus lodging must be
reserved directly with the hotels/motels or Kerrville-Schreiner Park.
George
-----Original Message-----
From: Gill Ediger [mailto:gi...@worldnet.att.net]
Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008 10:35 PM
To: texascavers@texascavers.com
Subject: [Texascavers] ICS camping
At 10:54 AM 10/19/2008, George Veni wrote:
>There are six lodging options for the ICS.
Hmmm. Are the convention site campgrounds free-for-all? Can we camp
in one one night and the other the following night? There may be
reasons for wanting to be close to one particular action or
another--or to bed afterward.
--Ediger
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Butch has just updated the Texas Cave Management Association web page to
include additional information on Deep and Punkin Nature Preserve. You
may want to check out the information.
http://www.tcmacaves.org/whatsnew/index.html
or
http://www.tcmacaves.org/index.html
Enjoy,
Geary Schindel
Preserve Manager
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See the National Geographic article about Xe Bang Fai River Cave at:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/10/photogalleries/river-caves-photos/index.html/
The photos are great!
Lee Skinner
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Who would like an electronic copy of the Oztotl Caver sent to them? It's a
beauty! This is the newsletter of the DFW Grotto, which some say is the NEW
Center of the Caving (or Texas) Universe.
Bill
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