Dear Friends, Here are a few announcements from NCKRI and its friends:
* GSA Karst Division Awards Nominations Announcement * GSA Special Session Honoring Nick Crawford * List of Upcoming Cave and Karst Meetings The details are below. As always, please feel free to share this message and to contact the sources below for more information. George ******************** 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> ----------------------------- GSA Karst Division Awards Nominations Announcement The Geological Society of America (GSA) Karst Division encourages and recognizes excellence in scholarship and service within its membership through the following awards and research grants. Please visit http://community.geosociety.org/karstdivision/awards/new-item for a complete list of awards and deadlines for nominations/applications. Details on the new GSA Karst Division Annual Awards have been posted on the Karst Division Connected Community Website, along with nomination forms, so please check them out HERE<http://community.geosociety.org/karstdivision/awards/new-item> and nominate<http://community.geosociety.org/karstdivision/awards/new-item3> someone or apply<http://community.geosociety.org/karstdivision/awards/new-item2> today! Feel free to share this with anyone who might be interested. http://community.geosociety.org/karstdivision/awards/new-item ----------------------------- GSA Special Session Honoring Nick Crawford The Geological Society of America's (GSA) Karst Division and the National Cave and Karst Research Institute are sponsoring a special session at the GSA Convention this October honoring Dr. Nicholas Crawford. While abstracts cannot be submitted until sometime in April, knowing that Dr. Crawford's teaching and programs have positively impacted many people and their careers we are announcing the session now to get you thinking about a paper you can present on Dr. Crawford, his work, or your research that was inspired by him. A full description of the session will be available later. Basic information about the convention is available now at http://www.geosociety.org/GSA/Events/Annual_Meeting.aspx. ----------------------------- List of Upcoming Cave and Karst Meetings 1) Karst Waters Institute Awards Dinner for James Reddell, 4 March 2017 (San Marcos, Texas, USA), http://karstwaters.org/save-the-date-march-4th-2017-karst-award-to-james-reddell/. 2) Hypogea 2017: International Congress of Speleology in Artificial Cavities, 6-10 March 2017 (Cappadocia, Turkey), www.hypogea2017.com<http://www.hypogea2017.com>. 3) Geological Society of America Northeast and North-Central Meeting Karst Sessions, 19-21 March 2017 (Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA), http://www.geosociety.org/nc-mtg. 4) Biospeleology Congress, 7-9 April 2017 (Cagliari, Italy), http://congressobiospeleo.wixsite.com/biospeleo2017. 5) Solution Mining Research Institute Technical Conference, 23-26 April 2017 (Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA), http://www.solutionmining.org/Conference/Details/9. 6) US Geological Survey Karst Interest Group Meeting, 16-18 May 2017 (San Antonio, Texas, USA). http://geologyutsa.wixsite.com/sgsutsa/karst-interest-group-workshop. 7) III International Symposium of Speleology, 29 April - 1 May 2017 (Varenna, Villa Monastero - Lake Como, Italy), http://www.iss2017.it/eng/. 8) Climate Record: The Karst Record VIII, 21-24 May 2017, (Austin, Texas, USA), http://sites.uci.edu/kr8conference/. 9) 25th International Karstological School "Classical Karst": Milestones and challenges in Karstology, 19-23 June 2017 (Postojna, Slovenia), http://iks.zrc-sazu.si 10) National Speleological Society Convention, 19-23 June 2017 (Rio Rancho, New Mexico, USA), http://nss2017.caves.org/ 11) National Association of Mining History Organisations Conference 2017, 23-26 June 2017 (Godstone, Surrey, UK), http://namho2017.info/ 12) Man and Karst 2017 International Scientific Meeting, 26-29 June (Zadar, Croatia), https://manandkarst2017.wixsite.com/manandkarst2017 13) 17th International Congress of Speleology, 23-30 July 2017 (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia), http://speleo2017.com/ 14) International Clean-up of Gouffre Berger, 1-15 August 2017 (Vercors, France), http://cds39.fr/BFC/index. 15) Biospeleology Conference, 21-23 September 2017 (Seville, Spain), http://bioespeleologia.blogspot.com.es/2016/11/v-encuentro-iberico-de-biologia.html 16) 44th International Association of Hydrogeologists Congress, 25-29 September 2017 (Dubrovnik, Croatia), http://iah2017.org/ 17) Geological Society of America Convention, 22-25 October (Seattle, Washington, USA), http://www.geosociety.org/GSA/Events/Annual_Meeting/GSA/Events/gsa2017.aspx 18) National Cave and Karst Management Symposium, 16-20 October 2017 (Eureka Springs, Arkansas, USA), http://nckms.org/ 19) International Conference on Geomorphology, 6-11 November 2017 (New Delhi, India), karst session: http://www.icg2017.com/session.php 20) The Sinkhole Conference, joint with the 3rd Appalachian Karst Symposium, 2-6 April 2018 (Shepherdstown, West Virginia, USA), http://www.sinkholeconference.com/ 21) EuroSpeleo 2018, 23-26 August 2018 (Ebensee, Austria), http://eurospeleo.at/expo.html. 22) 24th International Conference on Subterranean Biology, 20-24 August 2018 (University of Aveiro, Portugal), website to be announced soon.
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