texascavers Digest 9 Nov 2011 14:49:08 -0000 Issue 1432
Topics (messages 19031 through 19042):
Bat Discussion on KUT
19031 by: mminton.caver.net
19032 by: tbsamsel.verizon.net
19033 by: Julia Germany
CBSP project starts this weekend
19034 by: Jim Kennedy
pants repair at TCR
19035 by: Ron R
19037 by: Fritz Holt
Cave connection in England yields 70 mile system
19036 by: Lee H. Skinner
19038 by: Ed Goff
19039 by: Julia Germany
19041 by: Diana Tomchick
TSS work session
19040 by: Ron Ralph
help needed tonight
19042 by: Jim Kennedy
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On the Diane Rehm show at 11AM today on KUT 2 there will be a
discussion of the decline in bat populations due to WNS.
<http://thedianerehmshow.org/>
Mark Minton
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Actually Diane Rehm is out of WAMU in DC. Looks like you can get a podcast of this, too.
On the Diane Rehm show at 11AM today on KUT 2 there will be a
discussion of the decline in bat populations due to WNS.
Mark Minton
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http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2011-11-07/declining-us-bat-population#comments
Be sure to read the comments section!
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From: tbsamsel <[email protected]>
To: mminton <[email protected]>
Cc: texascavers <[email protected]>
Sent: Mon, Nov 7, 2011 11:28 am
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Bat Discussion on KUT
Actually Diane Rehm is out of WAMU in DC. Looks like you can get a podcast of
this, too.
Ted
Nov 7, 2011 09:41:09 AM, [email protected] wrote:
On the Diane Rehm show at 11AM today on KUT 2 there will be a
discussion of the decline in bat populations due to WNS.
Mark Minton
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Cavers, this is a reminder that the 2011-2012 Cave Inventory Project at
Colorado Bend State Park will be kicking off this weekend. Most cavers
show up Friday evening and camp out. All survey teams will be organized
and sent out of camp by 10 am on Saturday morning. Camping is again
available Saturday night, and a possibility of more caving/surveying on
Sunday morning. For more information, go to the UT Grotto caver
calendar at http://utgrotto.org/schedule.asp
Jim "Crash" Kennedy
TSA-CBSP Project Coordinator
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Someone gave me a pair of pants to repair at TCR. I'm done with them, but
I can't find a contact sheet to go with them. Who do they belong to?
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Ron Rutherford
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Ron,
Didn't know you were a tailor but will keep you in mind if I get too big for my
britches.
Fritz
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From: Ron R [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 6:59 AM
To: Texas Cavers
Subject: [Texascavers] pants repair at TCR
Someone gave me a pair of pants to repair at TCR. I'm done with them, but I
can't find a contact sheet to go with them. Who do they belong to?
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Ron Rutherford
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Great cave connections anywhere in the world always make good reading.
Boxhead Pot and Notts Pot have been connected to make up the Three
Counties System with 70 miles mapped!
http://tinyurl.com/8xor92q
Lee Skinner
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"In the difficult conditions 300ft below, the team experienced ten bars of
atmospheric pressure..."
The poor buggers. Have the bodies been recovered yet? ;)
Ed
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Lee H. Skinner <[email protected]> wrote:
> Great cave connections anywhere in the world always make good reading.
> Boxhead Pot and Notts Pot have been connected to make up the Three Counties
> System with 70 miles mapped!
>
> http://tinyurl.com/8xor92q
>
> Lee Skinner
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From a January 2011 article about this effort, they explain it this way:
At 300 ft below the surface, the team are working in 10 bars of atmospheric
pressure. It means by channeling stream water through a simple hose, they can
fire the water they collect at ancient mud with great force - and blast their
way through.
Note also that the author calls being suspended on rope in a 130m shaft
"stomach churning".
Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1347451/Cavers-excavate-warren-underground-passages-north-England.html#ixzz1d8x6TOfe
julia
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From: Ed Goff <[email protected]>
To: Lee H. Skinner <[email protected]>
Cc: texascavers list <[email protected]>
Sent: Tue, Nov 8, 2011 12:34 pm
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Cave connection in England yields 70 mile system
"In the difficult conditions 300ft below, the team experienced ten bars of
atmospheric pressure..."
The poor buggers. Have the bodies been recovered yet? ;)
Ed
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Lee H. Skinner <[email protected]> wrote:
Great cave connections anywhere in the world always make good reading. Boxhead
Pot and Notts Pot have been connected to make up the Three Counties System with
70 miles mapped!
http://tinyurl.com/8xor92q
Lee Skinner
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Please...don't believe everything you read.
Think about the difference between what the reporter wrote, and what the cavers
actually told him (or her).
Diana
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Diana R. Tomchick
Professor
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Department of Biochemistry
5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
Rm. ND10.214B
Dallas, TX 75390-8816, U.S.A.
Email: [email protected]
214-645-6383 (phone)
214-645-6353 (fax)
On Nov 8, 2011, at 1:31 PM, Julia Germany wrote:
> From a January 2011 article about this effort, they explain it this way:
>
> At 300 ft below the surface, the team are working in 10 bars of atmospheric
> pressure. It means by channeling stream water through a simple hose, they can
> fire the water they collect at ancient mud with great force - and blast their
> way through.
>
> Note also that the author calls being suspended on rope in a 130m shaft
> "stomach churning".
>
> Read more:
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1347451/Cavers-excavate-warren-underground-passages-north-England.html#ixzz1d8x6TOfe
>
>
> julia
>
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> From: Ed Goff <[email protected]>
> To: Lee H. Skinner <[email protected]>
> Cc: texascavers list <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tue, Nov 8, 2011 12:34 pm
> Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Cave connection in England yields 70 mile system
>
> "In the difficult conditions 300ft below, the team experienced ten bars of
> atmospheric pressure..."
>
> The poor buggers. Have the bodies been recovered yet? ;)
>
> Ed
>
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Lee H. Skinner <[email protected]> wrote:
> Great cave connections anywhere in the world always make good reading.
> Boxhead Pot and Notts Pot have been connected to make up the Three Counties
> System with 70 miles mapped!
>
> http://tinyurl.com/8xor92q
>
> Lee Skinner
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UT Southwestern Medical Center
The future of medicine, today.
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Cavers,
At the work session Wednesday (tomorrow), there are several empty file
cabinets, a donated office chair and some donated cave files on the lower
level we will need to move upstairs to the office. This work session will be
at the JJ Pickle Research Center on November 9. Both publication sales and
the library will be open. The door will be open at 5:00 p.m. and stay open
till we adjourn. Remember it is best to arrive before 6:00 pm and drinks are
on me.
Please come by and help out with the heavy lifting and search the files for
your favorite caves. If you have questions, please contact me at
[email protected] or the office manager, Jim Kennedy. I will be happy
to send you a link to the map of the Campus.
Ron Ralph
Cell: 797-3817
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Cavers, we REALLY need some extra help tonight at the Texas Speleological
Survey “office” at the J. J. Pickle Research Campus in northwest Austin. We
have about a dozen file cabinets that were recently donated from an office
move, and we need to get them up two flights of stairs in building 18A. We’ll
be there starting at 5:00 this afternoon. You need to arrive before 6:00 in
order to get past the gate guards at PRC. We’ll have free beverages for
everyone that shows up. We’ll hold off on moving the cabinets until at least
5:30 in order to allow all the help to arrive. I hope we can get a few folks
willing to give up an hour or so tonight to help the greater good and the
future of Texas speleology. Directions and a map to the TSS “office” are on
the TSS website at www.txspeleologicalsurvey.org. Thanks‼!
Jim “Crash” Kennedy, TSS office manager
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