The Maverick Grotto

The Maverick Grotto

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May 03, 2008

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May 10, 2008

National Cave Rescue Commission Cave Rescue Operations and Management Seminar – at Camp Skyline in Mentone, Alabama. Extensive classroom instruction and fieldwork in all phases of cave rescue including underground environment, vertical rescue, hauling systems, extrication techniques, medical management, communication systems, and the organization and management of cave rescue operations.

– Posted: 2007-10-30

May 09, 2008

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May 11, 2008

Colorado Bend State Park (TSA Project) – This long running project, a favorite of cavers from across the state. A great project for new cavers.

– Posted: 2007-06-24

May 13, 2008

Maverick Grotto Meeting – 7:00 PM - Meeting held at Rahr & Sons Brewing Company, 701 Galveston Avenue, Fort Worth, TX 76104. Free beer tasting, food will be available. There's usually a program before the business meeting. Visitors are always welcome.

– Posted: 2007-11-05

May 23, 2008

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May 26, 2008

Kentucky Spelefest – Hosted by the Louisville Grotto at the ever-improving and shady Lone Star Preserve, Hart Co. KY.

– Posted: 2007-10-30

Jun 01, 2008

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Jun 07, 2008

Cave Ecology - Mammoth Cave, KY – Western Kentucky University, through the Center for Cave and Karst Studies and in cooperation with Mammoth Cave National Park, offers a series of oneweek summer courses/workshops focusing on caves, karst, and cave exploring. While some require previous subject knowledge, some are designed for those with merely an interest in caves.

Dr. Horton Hobbs III – Caves and other subterranean voids are unique in that they lack light and, therefore, most are not capable of producing food. Consequently, these dark, energy-poor, extreme environments impose a suite of restrictions on organisms cave fauna as well as the evolution of cave-adapted organisms. We shall examine the cave productive surface world on the dark, consumptive cave environment. Morning sessions will be interactive lectures and afternoons and most evenings will be spent in the field, observing surface and subsurface ecosystems of the Mammoth Cave System. Small group mini-projects will be conducted utilizing the scientific method to test hypotheses related to the ecology of caves. A “symposium” will be presented. Participants should be in good physical condition and prepared for strenuous activity above and below ground throughout the week. Registration: Graduate, Undergraduate, or Workshop

Registration: Graduate, Undergraduate, or Workshop

– Posted: 2008-03-04

Lisa Lynn Haynes

Jun 08, 2008

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Jun 14, 2008

Karst Geomorphology - Mammoth Cave, KY – Western Kentucky University, through the Center for Cave and Karst Studies and in cooperation with Mammoth Cave National Park, offers a series of oneweek summer courses/workshops focusing on caves, karst, and cave exploring. While some require previous subject knowledge, some are designed for those with merely an interest in caves.

Dr. Darryl Granger with Joe Meiman – This course will be an intensive study of karst landscapes and will emphasize current thinking on the processes at work shaping them. We are fortunate to have as our laboratory one of the great karst landscapes of the world, and we will, therefore, be in a unique position to gain a deep appreciation of these fantastic landscapes through a combination of field and classroom study. The new view of the landscape provided by such a study can be profoundly enriching, and indeed enhance the karst experience. Because caves are a major element of the karst landscapes, both in terms of process and of form, their origin and morphology will be a major emphasis. Accordingly, we will spend a significant part of the week underground in the Mammoth Cave System as well as other caves. At least one previous course in geology is required, although appropriate concepts will be reviewed. The course will involve strenuous cave trips and hiking; therefore, participants must be in excellent physical condition.

Registration: Graduate, Undergraduate, or Workshop

– Posted: 2008-03-08

Lisa Lynn Haynes

Jun 08, 2008

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Jun 14, 2008

Exploration of Mammoth Cave - Mammoth Cave, KY – Western Kentucky University, through the Center for Cave and Karst Studies and in cooperation with Mammoth Cave National Park, offers a series of oneweek summer courses/workshops focusing on caves, karst, and cave exploring. While some require previous subject knowledge, some are designed for those with merely an interest in caves.

Dr. Stanley D. Sides – This course is an intensive study of the discovery, exploration and development of the caves and karst features of the Mammoth Cave region that resulted in integration of the caves into the world’s longest cave system. The forces that stimulated exploration, such as saltpeter mining, regional commercialization of show caves, national park development, and scientific research are examined. Illustrated lectures, handouts, and maps are used to promote understanding of the caves prior to daily field trips. Many underground trips follow tourist trails closed long ago to the public, while other trips require strenuous walking and crawling in undeveloped passages on trips lasting 6-8 hours. This year the course will emphasize recent research on the history of the many regional show caves that competed with Mammoth Cave after the end of the Civil War. Usually the class repeats of the connection routes made by previous explorers between one entrance and another in Mammoth Cave. Participants must be in good physical condition.

Registration: Graduate, Undergraduate, or Workshop

– Posted: 2008-03-08

Lisa Lynn Haynes

Jun 10, 2008

Maverick Grotto Meeting – 7:00 PM - Meeting held at Rahr & Sons Brewing Company, 701 Galveston Avenue, Fort Worth, TX 76104. Free beer tasting, food will be available. There's usually a program before the business meeting. Visitors are always welcome.

– Posted: 2008-04-09

Jun 15, 2008

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Jun 21, 2008

Speleology - Mammoth Cave, KY – Western Kentucky University, through the Center for Cave and Karst Studies and in cooperation with Mammoth Cave National Park, offers a series of oneweek summer courses/workshops focusing on caves, karst, and cave exploring. While some require previous subject knowledge, some are designed for those with merely an interest in caves.

Roger Brucker – Not just an introductory caving course, Speleology delves into the basics in cave science that lead to insight and understanding essential in making discoveries. It is an experience in which extensive cave trips tie together hydrology, geology, biology, and ecology by the use of discovery techniques such as exploration and cave surveying. These tools and techniques such as used by the Cave Research Foundation in the exploration of the world’s longest cave, allow participants to understand caves anywhere and to make significant discoveries of their own. Field trips are strenuous, involving long trips into rarely visited portions of the cave system, including making connections between caves as described in The Longest Cave. Participants must be in excellent physical condition, however, no prior caving experience is required.

Registration: Undergraduate, or Workshop

– Posted: 2008-03-08

Lisa Lynn Haynes

Jun 15, 2008

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Jun 21, 2008

Cave Surveying and Cartography & GIS - Mammoth Cave, KY – Western Kentucky University, through the Center for Cave and Karst Studies and in cooperation with Mammoth Cave National Park, offers a series of oneweek summer courses/workshops focusing on caves, karst, and cave exploring. While some require previous subject knowledge, some are designed for those with merely an interest in caves.

Pat Kambesis – Cave maps and inventories are fundamental to the understanding of cave and karst environments. This course will focus on in-cave data collection (with an emphasis on sketching), cave resource inventories, constructing survey data/inventory databases, creating maps and transforming the data maps into GIS format. Techniques for collecting cave survey and inventory databases will be examined with emphasis on obtaining the most useful data in the field. Surface geophysical techniques pertinent to locating and mapping caves.

Registration: Graduate, Undergraduate, or Workshop

– Posted: 2008-03-08

Lisa Lynn Haynes

Jun 15, 2008

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Jun 21, 2008

Cave and Karst Resource Management - California – Western Kentucky University, through the Center for Cave and Karst Studies and in cooperation with Mammoth Cave National Park, offers a series of oneweek summer courses/workshops focusing on caves, karst, and cave exploring. While some require previous subject knowledge, some are designed for those with merely an interest in caves.

Joel Despain and Dr. Rick Toomey – This intensive course includes practical and hands-on instruction concerning cave management practices. AKA, ‘cave specialist 101.” It is designed for state and federal land managers, private preserve managers, and members of cave conservancies. The class will include three field trips to examine relevant topics in context. Topics covered include managing volunteers, cave gates, cave inventories and monitoring, cave management plans, relevant laws, cave restoration, cave survey and new cave discoveries, cave scientists and the manager, recreational cavers and much more.

Registration: Graduate, Undergraduate, or Workshop

– Posted: 2008-03-08

Lisa Lynn Haynes

Jun 16, 2008

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Jun 21, 2008

Karst Hydrology - Bowling Green, KY – Western Kentucky University, through the Center for Cave and Karst Studies and in cooperation with Mammoth Cave National Park, offers a series of oneweek summer courses/workshops focusing on caves, karst, and cave exploring. While some require previous subject knowledge, some are designed for those with merely an interest in caves.

Dr. William White and Dr. Nicholas Crawford – The hydrology of karst terrains is taught from the perspective of integrated drainage basins. Discussion addresses karst landscapes, the hydrogeology of karst aquifers, caves and their importance as records of paleohydrology, karst water chemistry and its use in the analysis of flow systems, water balance, and the physical environmental problems in karst. The course deals with groundwater monitoring techniques, groundwater tracers, and the movement of contaminants through karst aquifers. Field exercises include qualitative and quantitative dye trace tests, and as techniques for locating caves for drilling monitoring wells in karst aquifers. A primary objective of this course is to provide “state-of-the-practice” instruction and “hands-on” experience for dealing with groundwater problems of karst regions. Most participants in this course are professional geologists and engineers employed by environmental consulting firms or government agencies who take the course as a workshop. However, undergraduate and graduate students also take the course for credit.

Registration: Graduate, Undergraduate, or Workshop

– Posted: 2008-03-08

Lisa Lynn Haynes

Jul 08, 2008

Maverick Grotto Meeting – 7:00 PM - Meeting held at Rahr & Sons Brewing Company, 701 Galveston Avenue, Fort Worth, TX 76104. Free beer tasting, food will be available. There's usually a program before the business meeting. Visitors are always welcome.

– Posted: 2008-04-09

Jul 17, 2008

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Jul 20, 2008

KARST-O-RAMA – The Greater Cincinnati Grotto invites you to attend the 2007 Karst-O-Rama at the Great Saltpetre Cave Preserve in Mount Vernon, Kentucky.

– Posted: 2007-06-24

Jul 26, 2008

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Jul 27, 2008

High Guads Restoration Project (Carlsbad, NM): Annual rescue practice???? – On-going work amid spectacular scenery in beautiful caves of the Lincoln National Forest. Last weekend of the month, permits often include Three Fingers, Virgin, Pink Dragon, Pink Panther, Hidden, Wonderland, and Black Cave. Activities vary from month to month.

– Posted: 2008-01-09

Aug 11, 2008

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Aug 15, 2008

NSS Convention – in Lake City, Florida (west of Jacksonville), hosted by the NSS Cave Diving Section, the Florida Speleological Society, and members of the Tampa Bay Area, Flint River, and Central Florida Grottos.

– Posted: 2007-10-30

Aug 12, 2008

Maverick Grotto Meeting – 7:00 PM - Meeting held at Rahr & Sons Brewing Company, 701 Galveston Avenue, Fort Worth, TX 76104. Free beer tasting, food will be available. There's usually a program before the business meeting. Visitors are always welcome.

– Posted: 2008-04-09

Aug 12, 2008

Maverick Grotto Meeting – 7:00 PM - Meeting held at Rahr & Sons Brewing Company, 701 Galveston Avenue, Fort Worth, TX 76104. Free beer tasting, food will be available. There's usually a program before the business meeting. Visitors are always welcome.

– Posted: 2008-04-09

Sep 09, 2008

Maverick Grotto Meeting – 7:00 PM - Meeting held at Rahr & Sons Brewing Company, 701 Galveston Avenue, Fort Worth, TX 76104. Free beer tasting, food will be available. There's usually a program before the business meeting. Visitors are always welcome.

– Posted: 2008-04-09

Oct 14, 2008

Maverick Grotto Meeting – 7:00 PM - Meeting held at Rahr & Sons Brewing Company, 701 Galveston Avenue, Fort Worth, TX 76104. Free beer tasting, food will be available. There's usually a program before the business meeting. Visitors are always welcome.

Nomination of officers for 2009!

– Posted: 2008-04-09

Oct 17, 2008

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Oct 19, 2008

31th Annual Texas Cavers Reunion (TCR) – TCR will be held at Paradise Canyon Park on the Medina River. The site is located just outside of San Antonio below the Diversion Dam on the Medina River. The site has a half-mile of river front with many good camping areas. The swimming will be superb and there are even some small caves across the river.

– Posted: 2007-10-23

Oct 25, 2008

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Oct 26, 2008

High Guads Restoration Project (Carlsbad, NM): More scrubbing caves – On-going work amid spectacular scenery in beautiful caves of the Lincoln National Forest. Last weekend of the month, permits often include Three Fingers, Virgin, Pink Dragon, Pink Panther, Hidden, Wonderland, and Black Cave. Activities vary from month to month.

– Posted: 2008-01-09

Oct 25, 2008

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Oct 26, 2008

High Guads Restoration Project (Carlsbad, NM): More scrubbing caves – On-going work amid spectacular scenery in beautiful caves of the Lincoln National Forest. Last weekend of the month, permits often include Three Fingers, Virgin, Pink Dragon, Pink Panther, Hidden, Wonderland, and Black Cave. Activities vary from month to month.

– Posted: 2008-01-09

Nov 11, 2008

Maverick Grotto Meeting – 7:00 PM - Meeting held at Rahr & Sons Brewing Company, 701 Galveston Avenue, Fort Worth, TX 76104. Free beer tasting, food will be available. There's usually a program before the business meeting. Visitors are always welcome.

Election of officers for 2009!

– Posted: 2008-04-09

Jul 19, 2009

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Jul 26, 2009

International Congress of Speleology - Kerrville Texas – Sort of like the NSS Convention on Steroids! Stay tuned for more information as it becomes available.

– Posted: 2007-06-16

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