texascavers Digest 3 May 2012 18:54:41 -0000 Issue 1540
Topics (messages 19925 through 19935):
Government Canyon Karst Project
19925 by: Marvin and Lisa
Re: Ancient Human Skeleton Stolen from Cenote
19926 by: Logan McNatt
[TSA Meeting]
19927 by: Arburn Don
caving in Papua New Guinea
19928 by: Mixon Bill
Re: Caves under Monterrey, Mexico
19929 by: Mixon Bill
Your Webinar Invitation: Join us for "Caving robot conquers the deepest
sinkhole in the world"
19930 by: Geary Schindel
caves under Monterrey
19931 by: Mixon Bill
WNS now reported in Hamilton County, TN (Chattanooga Area)
19932 by: NSS Announcements
Topo Map Sale
19933 by: Mark Minton
Bill Stone article by Mike Taylor in Wired
19934 by: Roger Moore
Rope suggestions
19935 by: Mallory Mayeux
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Cavers:
The next project weekend at Government Canyon SNA is the 26th and 27th of
May. Please note that the date on the TSA website calendar is incorrect.
On the 26th and 27th we will be surveying caves, looking for caves, digging
for caves . . . You get the picture. There is much to do and I hope to see
you out there. We will meet at the Volunteer/Research Station at 9:00 both
mornings. To get there enter the park at the main gate then take the first
right. Go through an unlocked gate and close it behind you. Drive for about
a mile to the VRS.
If you wish to camp please contact me so I can set it up with the park.
Marvin Miller
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Thanks for that link, Mark. I guess the "grave robbers" figure they can sell it on the black market? I don't have much hope they will be
caught unless they do something else stupid.
The New Scientist website has some interesting headlines, akin to The Onion, like
"Wrinkled Doughnut Solves Geometrical Mystery".
Logan
On 4/29/2012 9:30 PM, Mark Minton wrote:
An archaeologically important human skeleton has been stolen from a cenote in Mexico:
<http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21741-bones-of-ancient-american-stolen-from-underwater-cave.htm>
Mark
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Sunday, May 13 is the date for the next TSA Meeting. 9:30 a.m. is the time.
Colorado Bend is the place!
Contact me for further details.
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French expedition to PNG earlier this year, with photo gallery and
nice video:
http://www.2012.papouasie.org/
--Mixon
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Anybody know anything about this? I suspect mines, not caves, but the
area of the city is very large. Reply directly to Maria, please. --
Mixon
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From: Maria Luisa Holmgreen <mholmgr...@earthlink.net>
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Date: May 1, 2012 1:44:00 PM CDT
To: "bmi...@alumni.uchicago.edu" <bmi...@alumni.uchicago.edu>
Subject: Caves under Monterrey, Mexico
Dear Mr.Mixon,
I write to you in the hope that you may be able to assist me in
locating a map or schematic drawing of caves which are located under
the city of Monterrey. I know of their existence because my mother
lived in a home which had an entrance into the labyrinth of tunnels
and caverns. She played with her siblings in the caves until a
teenager when my grandfather tired of worrying about his children ge
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Folks, we are pleased to announce a test run of the first NSS Webinar. We are
asking the Utah and Texas caving community to participate in the first NSS
webinar as a trial run for future webinars. Space is limited to 100 people.
We would like to have sufficient number of people attend the webinar to get
good feedback but there is not space in our webinar account yet for more than
100 people to attend at this time so sign up early. Thanks to Debbie Spoons
from Utah for organizing this along with Dr. Marcus Gary for agreeing to make
the presentation. Also, R.D. Milholin and Aaron Bird for serving on the webinar
committee. We will also be looking for sponsors for the webinars as we expect
our costs to range around $1,000 if we stick with the 100 person limit and
$3,000 for the 500 person limit per year. In addition, we will be able to
record each webinar for future download. If you have ideas about future
presenters or subjects, please us know and we’ll try to arrange it. Webinars
can be offered as frequently as the webinar committee has time and willing
presenters.
Thanks, and please make sure that you give us some feedback on the webinar.
Geary Schindel,
NSS AVP
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Caving robot conquers the deepest sinkhole in the world
Join us for a Webinar on May 7
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Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
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Please join us for the first NSS Webinar.
Marcus Gary, Ph.D., P.G. will be talking about his work with “DEPTHX” an
underwater caving robot. This robot is designed to “think for itself” while it
explores and maps, in 3D, deep underwater caves that are inaccessible to people.
“DEPTHX” was able to successfully map the lower portion and bottom of the
world's deepest water-filled sinkhole, “Cenote Zacatón”, in Mexico. Because of
its great depth (over 1,000 feet [300 m]), human divers had failed to reach, or
even detect with sonar instruments, the bottom of this sinkhole.
Come and enjoy this presentation about a very unique “Robot caving trip”.
Title:
Caving robot conquers the deepest sinkhole in the world
Date:
Monday, May 7, 2012
Time:
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM CDT
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Sorry. I guess that Maria Holmgreen Luisa doesn't really want to know
the answer to her question about caves under Monterrey, because she
has her e-mail account set up to reject incoming mail from people not
on her list. Just ignore her.--Bill
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[From Peter Youngbaer, WNS Liaison]
Hamilton County, TN
Press release:
http://caves.org/WNS/Lookout%20Mountain%20Cave%20May%201,%202012.pdf
Note that for the first time in a USFWS-partnered press release we
have some contextual information (2 bats = 18% of colony; no
mortality). We can thank Ron Miller for this - he was on the survey
and mentioned the lack of this sort of information in previous press
releases to the National Park biologist. Pays to speak up.
Peter Youngbaer
White Nose Syndrome Liaison
National Speleological Society
(802) 272-3802
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If you want paper topo maps, the USGS is apparently having a
closeout sale for $1
each!
<http://store.usgs.gov/b2c_usgs/b2c/start/%28xcm=r3standardpitrex_prd%29/.do>
. My guess is that paper maps are being eliminated, so this may be
one of your last chances to get one. All USGS topo maps are also
available on line for free. Texas is available at
<http://www.tnris.org/get-data> and NM from
<http://sar.lanl.gov/topo_maps/> in addition to from the USGS
directly. You can also get a Google Earth plug-in for the entire U.
S. at http://www.gearthblog.com/kmfiles/topomaps.kmz>; get the file
called topomaps.kmz.
Mark
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I'm looking into buying my first rope. (Mostly to be used in my apartment,
for our informal rope practice nights, conducted using a ladder stolen from
my apartment complex, and the wall of my upstairs loft.) Anyway, I'd like
to get something that will be useful for caves as well.
So...suggestions, please! Is 50 foot rope too short for most pits? Or is it
useful? What brand/thickness would y'all recommend?
Thanks in advance for what I'm sure is going to be an interesting
discussion. :)
Mallory
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