The 2017 National Cave and Karst Management Symposium Program and Abstracts are now available.
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2017 National Cave and Karst Management Symposium Program: At A Glance
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| Monday, October 16 | 9AM – 5PM | Workshops |
| Tuesday, October 17 | 9AM – 5PM | Presentations at 1905 Basin Park Hotel |
| All Day | Posters | |
| 7:30PM | Howdy Party at 1905 Basin Park Hotel | |
| Wednesday, October 18 | 8:30AM – 5PM | Field Trips |
| Thursday, October 19 | 9AM – 5PM | Presentations at 1905 Basin Park Hotel |
| All Day | Posters | |
| 6:30PM | Banquet at Crescent Hotel & Spa | |
| Friday, October 20 | 9AM – NOON | Presentations at 1905 Basin Park Hotel |
2017 National Cave and Karst Management Symposium Program: Detailed Schedule
| Sunday, October 15 | ||
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CRF Meeting and Bat ID/Acoustic Workshop, Day 1 |
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1905 Basin Park Hotel |
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| 8:30AM – 4:30PM | CRF Board Meeting | Lucky 7 Bar and Billiards, 6th Floor |
| 9:00AM – 5:00PM | Bat ID/Acoustic Workshop, Day 1 | Ozark Room, 1st Floor |
| 7:00PM – 11:00PM | Bat ID/Acoustic Workshop, Field | TNC Kings River Preserve |
| Monday, October 16 | ||
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Registration |
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1905 Basin Park Hotel, Barefoot Ballroom Foyer, 6th Floor |
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8:00AM – 9:00AM |
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1905 Basin Park Hotel, Lucky 7 Bar and Billiards, 6th Floor |
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7:00PM – 8:00PM |
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Workshops |
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1905 Basin Park Hotel |
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| 9:00AM – 5:00PM | Bat ID/Acoustic Workshop, Day 2 | Ozark Room, 1st Floor |
| 9:00AM – 5:00PM | Dye Tracing Workshop | Atrium Room, 1st Floor |
| 9:00AM – 4:00PM* | Unpaved Roads Workshop | Barefoot Ballroom, 6th Floor |
| 9:00AM – 5:00PM | Database Management Workshop | Lucky 7 Bar and Billiards, 6th Floor |
| 10:30AM – 10:45AM | Morning Break | Barefoot Ballroom Foyer, 6th Floor |
| 12:00PM – 1:30PM | Lunch (on your own) | |
| 2:45PM – 3:00PM | Afternoon Break | Barefoot Ballroom Foyer, 6th Floor |
| 5:00PM – 7:00PM | Dinner (on your own) | |
| 7:00PM – 9:00PM | Network Development | Lucky 7 Bar and Billiards, 6th Floor |
| *The Unpaved Roads workshop timeline will be different in the afternoon: | ||
| 12:00PM – 1:00PM | Lunch (on your own) | |
| 1:00PM – 2:00PM | Workshop | Barefoot Ballroom, 6th Floor |
| 2:00PM – 4:00PM | Field Trip and Assessment | TBA |
| Tuesday, October 17 | ||
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Registration |
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1905 Basin Park Hotel, Barefoot Ballroom Foyer, 6th Floor |
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7:00AM – 8:00AM |
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Opening Ceremony and Sessions |
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1905 Basin Park Hotel, Barefoot Ballroom, 6th Floor |
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| 8:00AM – 8:05AM | Welcome: NCKMS Steering Committee | |
| 8:05AM – 8:25AM | Welcome: Eureka Springs Mayor | |
| 8:25AM – 9:10AM | Plenary Speaker: Jessie Jean Green, White River Waterkeeper | |
| 9:10AM – 9:15AM | Announcements | |
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Biology Session I Chair: Matthew L. Niemiller (UAH) |
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| 9:15AM – 9:30AM | Cait McCann – Making cave crickets famous: managing karst landscapes and conservation messages | |
| 9:30AM – 9:45AM | Robert K. Denton, Jr. – How the Madison Cave Isopod, Antrolana lira (Cirolanidae), can save the phreatic aquifer | |
| 9:45AM – 10:00AM | Allison Vaughn – Anthropogenic threats to the River Cave and Ha Ha Tonka Spring karst systems at Ha Ha Tonka State Park, Camden County, Missouri | |
| 10:00AM – 10:15AM | Thomas E. Malabad – Current status updates of 17 rare cave beetles of the genus Pseudanophthalmus in Virginia | |
| 10:15AM – 10:30AM | Matthew L. Niemiller – Rediscovery and conservation status of short-range endemic Pseudanophthalmus cave beetles (Carabidae: Trechini) in Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia | |
| 10:30AM – 10:45AM | Morning Break | Barefoot Ballroom Foyer, 6th Floor |
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Geology and Hydrology Session I Chair: Benjamin V. Miller (USGS) |
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| 10:45AM – 11:00AM | James A. Helwig – Living on crumbling karst, 1879–2017, Eureka Springs, Arkansas | |
| 11:00AM – 11:15AM | Tamara Hocut – Blanchard Springs Caverns and a billion points of light | |
| 11:15AM – 11:30AM | Charles J. Bitting – Casting pearls before swine 2017: how public review and analysis of an industrial hog farm’s permit will protect the waters of America’s first National River | |
| 11:30AM – 11:45AM | Michael E. Wiles – Estimating the true elevation of cave lakes with surface and subsurface geology at Jewel Cave, South Dakota | |
| 11:45AM – 12:00PM | Benjamin V. Miller – Examining the hydrogeology of the unique fenster-type karst in the western Great Smoky Mountains, Tennessee | |
| 12:00PM – 1:30PM | Lunch (on your own) | |
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Biology Session II Chair: J. Jerry Lewis |
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| 1:30PM – 1:45PM | Zoe Havlena – Lighting and substrate effects on lampenflora microbial communities in Carlsbad Cavern | |
| 1:45PM – 2:00PM | Jessica Hawkins – Indiana Bat habitat restoration project on the Sylamore Ranger District of the Ozark-St. Francis National Forests | |
| 2:00PM – 2:15PM | Joshua Mouser – New techniques for determining occurrence and demographics of cave crayfish | |
| 2:15PM – 2:30PM | Shiloh Beeman – Cave Springs Area Karst Conservation Study: a success story in karst resource management and urban development | |
| 2:30PM – 2:45PM | J. Jerry Lewis – The Lee County cave isopod (Lirceus usdagalun) debacle: an endangered species discovered not to be a species | |
| 2:45PM – 3:00PM | Afternoon Break | Barefoot Ballroom Foyer, 6th Floor |
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White Nose Syndrome Session Chair: Cory Holliday (TNC) |
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| 3:00PM – 5:00PM | WNS Panel Discussion | |
| 5:00PM – 6:00PM | Post-WNS Cave Management Panel Discussion | |
| 6:00PM – 7:30PM | Dinner (on your own) | |
| Howdy Party | ||
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1905 Basin Park Hotel Barefoot Ballroom Foyer, Lucky 7 Bar and Billiards, 6th Floor |
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| 7:30PM – 9:00PM | ||
| All Day | Poster Session | Barefoot Ballroom Foyer, 6th Floor |
| 7:30PM-8:30PM | Poster Session: Meet the Authors | Barefoot Ballroom Foyer, 6th Floor |
| Wednesday, October 18 | ||
| Field Trips | ||
| 8:00AM – 5:00PM | Buffalo National River Float Trip | |
| 8:00AM – 5:00PM | Ozark Underground Lab Field Trip | |
| 8:30AM – 12:00PM | Eureka Springs Field Trip | |
| 5:00PM – 7:00PM | Dinner (on your own) | |
| 7:00PM – 9:00PM | Network Development | Lucky 7 Bar and Billiards, 6th Floor |
| All Day | Poster Session | Barefoot Ballroom Foyer, 6th Floor |
| Thursday, October 19 | ||
| Sessions | ||
| 1905 Basin Park Hotel, Barefoot Ballroom, 6th Floor | ||
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Geology and Hydrology Session II Chair: Kevin W. Blackwood |
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| 9:00AM – 9:15AM | James Goodbar – Nash Draw groundwater trace: phase one implementation | |
| 9:15AM – 9:30AM | Katarina Kosič Ficco – Karst aquifers protection: a scientific and legislative conundrum | |
| 9:30AM – 9:45AM | Nathan J. Wentz – Preliminary analysis of water chemistry for select Northwest Arkansas caves | |
| 9:45AM – 10:00AM | Hali Steinmann – Karst hydrology and geomorphology of the Upper-Mississippian Pennington Formation in Savage Gulf State Natural Area, Tennessee | |
| 10:00AM – 10:15AM | Kevin W. Blackwood – Morphological investigations of cavernous hydrothermal features with an emphasis on Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming | |
| 10:15AM – 10:30AM | Robert N. Lerch – Atrazine transport through a soil-epikarst system | |
| 10:30AM – 10:45AM | Morning Break | Barefoot Ballroom Foyer, 6th Floor |
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Biology Session III Chair: Michael E. Slay (TNC) |
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| 10:45AM – 11:00AM | Kurt L. Helf – Monitoring cave aquatic biota at selected national parks in the Cumberland Piedmont Network | |
| 11:00AM – 11:15AM | Bradley Lusk – Partial cave closures for study of microbiome in Grand Canyon Caverns, a sulfuric hypogene dry cave in north central Arizona, revealed a biotechnologically relevant community and had no deleterious economic impact | |
| 11:15AM – 11:30AM | Greg Horne – BatCaver – Citizen science to identify critical bat habitat in western Canada | |
| 11:30AM – 11:45AM | Matthew L. Niemiller – Using environmental DNA to detect and monitoring rare and endangered groundwater fauna: a case study | |
| 11:45AM – 12:00PM | Michael E. Slay – Geospatial assessment of landscape threats effecting Oklahoma karst species | |
| 12:00PM – 1:30PM | Lunch (on your own) | |
| 12:00PM – 1:00PM | NCKMS Steering Committee Meeting | The Cave, Basin Park Hotel Lobby |
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Conservation, Management & Techniques Session I Chair: William D. Orndorff (VADCR) |
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| 1:30PM – 1:45PM | Gregg Janos – BrandenBark™, a management tool for bark roosting bats | |
| 1:45PM – 2:00PM | Charles J. Bitting – Cooperative cave and karst management at Buffalo National River, Arkansas during a period of shrinking federal budgets and staffing | |
| 2:00PM – 2:15PM | Rodney D. Horrocks – Developing camouflaging techniques for the new cave lighting system at Carlsbad Cavern | |
| 2:15PM – 2:30PM | Cory Holliday – Ecology-based cave and karst forest management recommendations and best management practices for working forests | |
| 2:30PM – 2:45PM | Gretchen M. Baker – Developing multidisciplinary cave management plans at Great Basin National Park, Nevada | |
| 2:45PM – 3:00PM | Afternoon Break | Barefoot Ballroom Foyer, 6th Floor |
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Conservation, Management & Techniques Session II Chair: Tommy Inebnit (USFWS) |
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| 3:00PM – 3:15PM | Thomas Aley – Managing endangered species on private property as assets, not liabilities or problems | |
| 3:15PM – 3:30PM | Michael E. Wiles – How to upgrade to an LED cave lighting system for under $40,000 | |
| 3:30PM – 3:45PM | Matthew D. Covington – A comparison of low-cost 3D scanning techniques applied to the cave environment | |
| 3:45PM – 4:00PM | Rodney D. Horrocks – The design concept behind the new LED lighting system at Carlsbad Cavern, New Mexico | |
| 4:00PM – 4:15PM | Teresa A. Turk – Plugging the management holes in karst environments | |
| 4:15PM – 4:30PM | William D. Orndorff – Karst considerations in the siting of interstate utility corridors: examples from two major natural gas transmission pipelines proposed to cross western Virginia | |
| All Day | Posters | Barefoot Ballroom Foyer, 6th Floor |
| Banquet | ||
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Crescent Hotel & Spa Crystal Ballroom |
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| 6:30PM – 9:00PM | ||
| Keynote Address | Tom Aley, Ozark Underground Laboratory | |
| Friday, October 20 | ||
| Sessions and Closing Remarks | ||
| 1905 Basin Park Hotel, Barefoot Ballroom, 6th Floor | ||
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Conservation, Management, and Techniques Session III Chair: Charles J. Bitting (NPS) |
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| 9:00AM – 9:15AM | Rachel Adams – From Mayan to modern: the continued reliance and current exploitation of caves in Mexico | |
| 9:15AM – 9:30AM | Drew Westerman – Sharing GIS data layers developed for United States Geological Survey regional water-availability studies | |
| 9:30AM – 9:45AM | Drew R. Thompson – The excavation of caves for education | |
| 9:45AM – 10:00AM | Charles J. Bitting – The wilderness underground of Buffalo National River | |
| 10:00AM – 10:15AM | Bryan Rupar – Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission’s approach to karst acquisition and conservation funding | |
| 10:15AM – 10:30AM | Elizabeth Willenbrink – Policy communication and the impact of agricultural communities on karst landscapes: an example from Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park, Vietnam | |
| 10:30AM – 10:45AM | Ray Knott – Online permitting of cave preserve visitors to enhance visitor experience, manage risk and inform conservation efforts | |
| 10:45AM – 11:00AM | Closing Remarks | |