Folks, I'm sorry but the abstract deadline is definately NOT extended. The Science C0mmittee is completely swamped and we set the submission deadline as late as possible. I am not guaranteeing that ANY abstract submitted after the December 1st deadline will be reviewed. The note from David Hubbard was specific to symposia chairs that might have needed to round out their programs. Abstracts that have come in since December 1st are being filed on the side until we have processed the abstracts that came in on time. We will then try to process ones requested by symposia chair. If my reviewers still feel they have time to review more abstracts, we will look at the others that come in. Frankly, with the holidays, I'm not optimistic. I really appreciate the wealth of submissions from Texas and other elsewhere, but we planned our deadline schedule as generous as we could accomodate and we aren't able to extend the abstract submission deadline except in very specific cases. I have processed, sent out for review, and sent the submitters acknowledgment letters for all abstracts received before the very last day (December 1st). However, there were literally a couple hundred submitted on the last day and those will take several more days to process.
Louise Hose, PhD Science Committee Chairman and Vice-President 15th International Congress of Speleology h...@drkarst.net i...@drkarst.net -----Original Message----- From: Jim Kennedy [mailto:jkenn...@batcon.org] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 10:59 AM To: Texascavers Mailing List Subject: ICS abstract deadline extended Texas Cavers! At this point I have no idea of how many of us are presenting papers at the upcoming ICS next July in Kerrville, but if you are planning to and haven't submitted an abstract yet, you have a little reprieve! See the following message from Dave Hubbard. Instructions for abstracts are on the ICS website at <http://www.ics2009.us> www.ics2009.us. It would be really great if we had a very large Texas presence at ICS, since it is being held in our backyard. I know a lot of us are involved with planning, facilities, field trips, and so on, but let's make sure we also give some presentations, enter cave maps and photos and so on in the salons, and, of course, have a huge number of us attend! This is an event of a lifetime. -- Crash --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Greetings Chairs and Co-chairs, Hopefully, most of your invited speakers submitted their abstracts by the 1 December 2008 deadline. Those that have not, still have a chance to get them in and accepted. I'm fairly confident that any abstracts submitted the remainder of this week will be accepted. Any abstracts submitted next week will be logged in and may be accepted as the reviewers finish with the on-time submittals. So please communicate with any of your invited speakers that may not have already submitted their abstract to do so ASAP. Thanks, Dave Hubbard, Symposia Chair Confidentiality Note: This email and any attachment to it are confidential and protected by law and intended for the use of the individual(s) or entity named on the email. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination or distribution of this communication is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender via return email and delete it completely from your email system. If you have printed a copy of the email, please destroy it immediately. Thank you
