Dear Friends, Here are three announcements that may interest you, your students, or colleagues:
1) List of upcoming cave and karst events. 2) Undergraduate karst research scholarship. 3) Meeting of the Geological Society of America Karst Division. The details are below. Please feel free to share this information with anyone who may be interested. Contact the sources below for more information. George ----------------------- List of upcoming cave and karst meetings: 1) EuroKarst 2016, 5-7 September 2016 (Neuchâtel, Switzerland), http://www.eurokarst.org/ 2) 43rd International Association of Hydrogeologists, 25-29 September 2016 (Montpellier, France), http://www.60iah2016.org/en/ 3) Geological Society of America Convention, 25-28 September 2016 (Denver, Colorado, USA), http://community.geosociety.org/gsa2016/home 4) American Geophysical Union, 12-16 December 2016, (San Francisco, California, USA), 3 August abstract deadline, http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/ 5) Hypogea 2017: International Congress of Speleology in Artificial Cavities, 6-10 March 2017 (Cappadocia, Turkey), www.hypogea2017.com<http://hypogea2017.us10.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=e99f0e9eb1e77cbca5fb3ea54&id=dc7e71415a&e=0aa3507c64> 6) US Geological Survey Karst Interest Group Meeting, 16-18 May 2017 (San Antonio, Texas, USA). 7) Climate Record: The Karst Record VIII, 21-24 May 2017, (Austin, Texas, USA), http://sites.uci.edu/kr8conference/ 8) National Speleological Society Convention, 19-23 June 2017 (Rio Rancho, New Mexico, USA), http://nss2017.caves.org/ 9) National Association of Mining History Organisations Conference 2017, 23-26 June 2017 (Godstone, Surrey, UK), http://namho2017.info/ 10) 17th International Congress of Speleology, 23-30 July 2017 (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia), http://speleo2017.com/ 11) National Cave and Karst Management Symposium, 16-20 October 2017 (Eureka Springs, Arkansas, USA), http://nckms.org/ 12) The Sinkhole Conference, joint with the 3rd Appalachian Karst Symposium, 2-6 April 2018 (Shepherdstown, West Virginia, USA), http://www.sinkholeconference.com/ ----------------------- The Albert and Ethel Ogden Undergraduate Research Scholarship in Geology and Geography This scholarship has been established to encourage small scale karst research by geology and geography undergraduate students. Two annual awards of $500 are available. The applicant must be an NSS member. Example projects include dye tracing, spatial analysis of karst landforms, water quality of springs and cave waters, cave sediment analyses, etc. Applications describing the proposed research are limited to two pages of text. Send or email your application to John Hoffelt, 208 Cheatham Ave., Smyrna, Tennessee 37167-4766; mossy...@comcast.net<mailto:mossy...@comcast.net>. A letter of recommendation by the professor overseeing the research should be included in the proposal. Application deadline is December 15th, 2016 with awards being announced the first week of January. ----------------------- Geological Society of America (GSA) Karst Division GSA Karst Division Social Monday 9/26 from 5:30pm-7:30pm Colorado Convention Center Room 504 Cash bar available on site (beer/soda) GSA Karst Division Business Meeting Monday 9/26 from 12-1:30pm Colorado Convention Center Room 505 Open to all (no drinks or snacks though) For more information on the GSA Convention, visit http://community.geosociety.org/gsa2016/home ******************** George Veni, PhD Executive Director National Cave and Karst Research Institute 400-1 Cascades Avenue Carlsbad, New Mexico 88220-6215 USA Office: 575-887-5517 Mobile: 210-863-5919 Fax: 575-887-5523 gv...@nckri.org<mailto:gv...@nckri.org> www.nckri.org<http://www.nckri.org/>
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