Gouffre Berger 2017

Inkommet idag 2017-02-07

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Dear delegates,

Please disseminate this information as widely as possible in your country.

BERGER 2017 : registration is opened !

Speleologists from all FSE member countries are invited to participate in the international event BERGER 2017 ” for the cleaning of Gouffre Berger (France) between 1st and 15th August 2017.

More Information here : http://cds39.fr/BFC/index

Best speleological greetings / salutations spéléologiques

Michael Laumanns
FSE Vice-Secretary

Grottning i Kirgisistan

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Hello colleagues

Our Speleological Organization Fund of Preservation and Exploration of Cave seeking interested cavers and cave explorers for the joint project and wants to offer cooperation. Our organization was established in 2003, currently we have few cavers, but many are not investigated or poorly investigated karst areas. A schematic map attached.

Therefore we are looking for colleagues for the joint research, the search for new caves and exploring ancient caves, mines in Kyrgyzstan.

If you are interested, this year we offer you a research expedition in two of the most interesting areas are marked on the map. One of them is described in a press release.

Happy to answer your questions

 Alex Dudashvili

Fund of Preservation and Exploration of Caves (FPEC)
1a Lineinaya Str., 720021, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Tel.: (+996 312) 69 02 34, 69 02 35 Mob. (+996 553) 991663
Foundation director Dr. Alexey Dudashvili

E-mail: info@speleo.kg,

Beskrivning

Speleo2017 – Internationell kongress

Arrangören av 2017 år internationella grottkongress i Sydney bjuder in till tidig registrering till rabatterat pris. Se meddelandet nedan.

Early–discount Registrations Close in Just Over Three Months

The early-discount registration rate ends on 31 January 2017, just over three months away. If you haven’t started planning your travels and investigating flights, now is the time as the busyness of the Christmas and end-of-year season will be with us soon. Full details can be found at www.speleo2017.com and in particular by following the links to Circular 2.

Congress Field Excursions: Early Closing Dates for Two Excursions.

A7.NP Nullarbor Karst and Bunda Cliffs.

This vertical caving expedition to the Bunda Cliffs on the southern coastline of the Nullarbor Plain is by application. Due to the detailed logistics of planning this trip, applications should preferably be made by 1 December 2016. This trip has limited places. All applicants will be assessed to ensure they have suitable vertical skills to join this expedition.
B5.YB Yarrangobilly Caves, New South Wales.

Bookings and payments for this excursion are required by our hosts at Caves House, Yarrangobilly by 15 December 2016. This is a horizontal trip that will suit varying levels of caving skills and interests. Accommodation is in the charming and comfortable restored caves house, an ”old time” building with modern facilities. All meals will be prepared for you. Plenty of options for seeing Australian birds and other wildlife up close. Nice bush tracks for pleasant strolls close to Caves House and a thermal pool to invigorate in at the end of the day. Booking and payment must be made by 15 December.

Full details on these excursions are at: https://www.speleo2017.com

From Cathy Plowman
Speleo2017 Excursions Program Organiser

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Nytt internationellt forskningsprogram har startats av UIS

Följande meddelande från UIS nådde nyligen förbundet. Då meddelandet har allmänt intresse för forskare inom miljöområdet läggs det därför ut i sin helhet.

Dear Colleague,

UIS started a New International Programme for Cave Research (IPCR). It aims to establish a link between studies of the local climate, ground waters infiltration through the bedrock, karst hydrogeology and hydrochemistry, cave climate, cave microbiology, speleothem fabrics and quality of the speleothem records and to produce new results obtainable only by application of all these studies on the same cave. So far there are no any published complete studies on this topic and this project will expand our knowledge about karst processes. Therefore it is very prospective and requires large collaboration of cave and karst researchers worldwide. So far it has 51 participants from 27 countries, from 5 continents, but this collaboration expands extremely rapidly.

I am asking you to help to improve our knowledge in this neglected and not sufficiently well developed field. It is timely effort, because recently raised high international demand for such knowledge. It is produced by the great interest in the Global Change studies, but the best records of the Climate Change are obtained from speleothems. Therefore many main stream scientists (outside the speleological community) are very keen to study speleothem archives of the Global Change. This endangers speleothems from over sampling and becomes the main issue for caves protection. This project will reduce dramatically the amount of unnecessary sampling of speleothems.

This project will find which regions produce only porous or altered speleothems, which can not be used for measurements of reliable paleoclimatic records. It will establish proper criteria for the potential of any speleothem for obtaining of high quality reliable speleothem records. These criteria will be applied for sampling of speleothems. This will raise significantly the quality of the obtained speleothem records.

This programme will be made in collaboration with the Cave Minerals and Cave Microbiology commissions of UIS. Its execution requires large scale collaboration of cave researchers and climatologists from all karst regions worldwide. So WE CALL FOR CO-OPERATION OF SCIENTISTS AND CAVERS FROM ALL COUNTRIES AND FIELDS OF KARST AND CAVE RESEARCH in order to improve our understanding of the processes of precipitation of speleothems and their impact on speleothem structure and speleothem records. I hope that all of you will make maximum possible efforts to help our commission to reach these goals.

Please send this information to your colleagues or friends from the speleological community who may be interested in such kind of activity.

Anybody interested to collaborate in this large scale international effort should write to yyshopov@gmail.com or yyshopov@phys.uni-sofia.bg to become member of the research team and to receive details regarding the research plan.

Excuse me for potential cross posting.

Project background. Laszlo Jakucs* demonstrated that karst waters hydrochemistry and karst denudation processes are strongly affected by the local climate due to different plants communities and amounts of biogenic products (organic acids and soil CO2) in different climatic regions. Although his and following studies on climatic impact on karst processes considered only 5 climatic zones and did not studied secondary calcite precipitation in speleothems. Far more precise climatic subdivision is necessary to achieve goals of this programme. IPCR must study also the microbiological impact on speleothem deposition, which has been neglected.

Thank you in advance,

Dr. Yavor Shopov,

President of the Commission on Physical Chemistry and Hydrogeology of Karst of the International Union of Speleology (UIS)

* Laszlo Jakucs (1977) Morphogenetics of karst regions: variants of karst evolution, John Wiley & Sons, 283 p.