Post by Brian Roebuck on Jan 4, 2011 18:03:56 GMT -5
The following announcement was sent out to several NSS grottos in Tennessee. It appears various government agencies as well as environmental organizations have adopted the Karst workshop approach developed by Tennessee's Southport Chronic Cavers Grotto nearly a decade ago to educate cavers by cavers. I am left wondering why professionals are hosting this and what they have to gain from caver participation.
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Please find the attached invitation to the TN Cave and Karst Working Group meeting on January 22, 2011. We would be delighted if you could share this invitation with your membership. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact me.
Best Wishes,
Cory
Cory Holliday
Cave and Karst Program Manager
The Nature Conservancy of Tennessee
862 Fort Blount Ferry Rd.
Gainesboro, TN 38562
615.504.7427 Cell
Public Meeting
Tennessee Cave and Karst Working Group
January 22, 2011
The inn at Fall Creek Falls State Park
Please accept this invitation to attend the first annual public meeting of
the Tennessee Cave and Karst Working Group. The meeting will take place on
Saturday, January 22, 2011 at the inn at Fall Creek Falls State Park.
The Tennessee Cave and Karst Working Group mission is to increase awareness,
understanding, and cooperation relating to cave and karst resources in
Tennessee. Although TN has world class cave and karst resources, the
experts, enthusiasts, and managers of those resources rarely have a forum to
share their projects, experiences, or expertise with others. Not only can
that sometimes lead to poor stewardship, but it also excludes the sense of
camaraderie that can be gained by working together.
This first public meeting will comprise of numerous presentations relating
to Tennessee’s cave and karst resources. While the topics are varied, the
overall themes relate to conservation, archaeology, historical human use,
biology, white nose syndrome, photography, and geology/hydrology.
If you have any interest in caves or karst resources in TN, there will be
something of interest for you at this meeting. We encourage you to come and
spend a day learning and sharing with us. This is a newly formed group and
we hope you will come and participate. There will be time for questions and
discussion after each presentation.
Preliminary Agenda
9:00‐9:30 - Morning Social
9:30‐9:40 ‐ Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:40‐10:00 - Sidney Jones - The State of Karst Hydrology in the Volunteer
State
10:00 - 10:20 - Jason and Chrissy Richards - Cave Diving Project Update
10:20‐10:40 - Maureen Handler - SERA Karst Task Force
10:40‐10:50 - Break
10:50‐11:15 -David Withers ‐ Karst Dependent Organisms in TN
11:15‐11:40 - Kirk Zigler - Cave Invertebrate Project Updates
11:40‐12:40 - Lunch (The Inn at FCFSP has a full restaurant and worthwhile
buffet)
12:40‐12:45 - Introduction to the second half
12:45‐1:15 - Dr. Joseph Douglas - History in TN Caves: Themes, Resources,
and Conservation
1:15‐1:45 - Annie Blankenship - Archaeological Resources Within TN Caves
1:45‐2:15 - Dr. Jan Simek and Alan Cressler ‐ Caves, Karst, and the Soul:
How Karst Features Reflected the Prehistoric Native American Cosmos
2:15‐2:25 - Break
2:25‐2:45 - John Hoffelt - Implementation of the USFWS National White Nose
Syndrome Plan
2:45‐3:10 - Richie Wyckoff - White Nose Syndrome in Tennessee
3:10‐3:45 - Stephen Alvarez ‐ Bat Genocide: Pictures from December's
National Geographic WNS story
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Please find the attached invitation to the TN Cave and Karst Working Group meeting on January 22, 2011. We would be delighted if you could share this invitation with your membership. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact me.
Best Wishes,
Cory
Cory Holliday
Cave and Karst Program Manager
The Nature Conservancy of Tennessee
862 Fort Blount Ferry Rd.
Gainesboro, TN 38562
615.504.7427 Cell
Public Meeting
Tennessee Cave and Karst Working Group
January 22, 2011
The inn at Fall Creek Falls State Park
Please accept this invitation to attend the first annual public meeting of
the Tennessee Cave and Karst Working Group. The meeting will take place on
Saturday, January 22, 2011 at the inn at Fall Creek Falls State Park.
The Tennessee Cave and Karst Working Group mission is to increase awareness,
understanding, and cooperation relating to cave and karst resources in
Tennessee. Although TN has world class cave and karst resources, the
experts, enthusiasts, and managers of those resources rarely have a forum to
share their projects, experiences, or expertise with others. Not only can
that sometimes lead to poor stewardship, but it also excludes the sense of
camaraderie that can be gained by working together.
This first public meeting will comprise of numerous presentations relating
to Tennessee’s cave and karst resources. While the topics are varied, the
overall themes relate to conservation, archaeology, historical human use,
biology, white nose syndrome, photography, and geology/hydrology.
If you have any interest in caves or karst resources in TN, there will be
something of interest for you at this meeting. We encourage you to come and
spend a day learning and sharing with us. This is a newly formed group and
we hope you will come and participate. There will be time for questions and
discussion after each presentation.
Preliminary Agenda
9:00‐9:30 - Morning Social
9:30‐9:40 ‐ Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:40‐10:00 - Sidney Jones - The State of Karst Hydrology in the Volunteer
State
10:00 - 10:20 - Jason and Chrissy Richards - Cave Diving Project Update
10:20‐10:40 - Maureen Handler - SERA Karst Task Force
10:40‐10:50 - Break
10:50‐11:15 -David Withers ‐ Karst Dependent Organisms in TN
11:15‐11:40 - Kirk Zigler - Cave Invertebrate Project Updates
11:40‐12:40 - Lunch (The Inn at FCFSP has a full restaurant and worthwhile
buffet)
12:40‐12:45 - Introduction to the second half
12:45‐1:15 - Dr. Joseph Douglas - History in TN Caves: Themes, Resources,
and Conservation
1:15‐1:45 - Annie Blankenship - Archaeological Resources Within TN Caves
1:45‐2:15 - Dr. Jan Simek and Alan Cressler ‐ Caves, Karst, and the Soul:
How Karst Features Reflected the Prehistoric Native American Cosmos
2:15‐2:25 - Break
2:25‐2:45 - John Hoffelt - Implementation of the USFWS National White Nose
Syndrome Plan
2:45‐3:10 - Richie Wyckoff - White Nose Syndrome in Tennessee
3:10‐3:45 - Stephen Alvarez ‐ Bat Genocide: Pictures from December's
National Geographic WNS story