Sunday, February 26, 2006

BCRA Cave Science Symposium Saturday 4th March Bristol UK

Location is the School of Geographical Sciences http://www.ggy.bris.ac.uk/, University Road, University of Bristol, BRISTOL, BS8 1SS, UK. Start Time: door open 9:30, start 10:00, finish at 16:30.

Further information (maps, parking, travel, etc.): see www.bcra.org.uk/#events

Admission charges (payable on door) will be £5 (BCRA members £4, undergraduate students £3). This charge includes tea/coffee in the morning and afternoon. The cost of lunch is not included but there are suitable venues within walking distance of the venue.

For information about the venue, including accommodation, please contact Dr Phil Hopley, Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, BS8 1SS. +44 117 928 9111. Phil.Hopley[at]bristol.ac.uk

Presentations
  • Peter L. Smart, Patricia A. Beddows, Jim Coke, Stefan Doerr, Samantha Smith and Fiona F. Whitaker Cave Development on the Caribbean Coast of the Yucatan Peninsula, Quintana Roo, Mexico
  • Andrew Farrant Swildons Hole: a centenary reappraisal
  • Peter Smithers The Diet of the Cave Spider Meta menardi (Latreille 1804), (Araneae-Tetragnathidae).
  • Alison Blyth Vegetational and microbial ecosystem signals as preserved in stalagmites from Scotland and Ethiopia
  • Stephanie Leach, Martin Smith and Megan Brickley A Shot in the Dark. Identification of a fatal projectile injury in the skeletal remains of a young woman excavated from Feizor Nick Cave, North Yorkshire
  • Gina Moseley, Peter L. Smart and David A. Richards Quaternary Sea Level and Palaeoclimate from Submerged Speleothems 
  • Ian Fairchild, Claire Smith, Andy Baker, Lisa Fuller, Emily McMillan, Christoph Spötl, Dave Mattey, Frank McDermott, Silvia Frisia, Andrea Borsato Karstic systems and the preservation of palaeoenvironmental signals by speleothems
  • Simon Bottrell Tracing the impact of mine drainage pollution in a karst aquifer, Xingwen, China
  • Sam Allshorn Rapid karstic by-pass flow in the unsaturated zone of the Chalk and implications for contaminant transport. 
  • Trevor Faulkner Relationships between cave dimensions and local catchment areas
  • John Gunn The Roosky turloughs, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland
  • Stephanie Leach In Sickness and in Health: Earlier Neolithic human mortuary activities in Yorkshire caves and rock shelters
  • Julia Lee-Thorp Interpretation of isotope proxies and variability in a mid-latitude savanna: the Cold Air Cave stalagmites, Makapans Valley, South Africa.

Sunday, February 26, 2006

BCRA Cave Science Symposium Saturday 4th March Bristol UK

Location is the School of Geographical Sciences http://www.ggy.bris.ac.uk/, University Road, University of Bristol, BRISTOL, BS8 1SS, UK. Start Time: door open 9:30, start 10:00, finish at 16:30.

Further information (maps, parking, travel, etc.): see www.bcra.org.uk/#events

Admission charges (payable on door) will be £5 (BCRA members £4, undergraduate students £3). This charge includes tea/coffee in the morning and afternoon. The cost of lunch is not included but there are suitable venues within walking distance of the venue.

For information about the venue, including accommodation, please contact Dr Phil Hopley, Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, BS8 1SS. +44 117 928 9111. Phil.Hopley[at]bristol.ac.uk

Presentations
  • Peter L. Smart, Patricia A. Beddows, Jim Coke, Stefan Doerr, Samantha Smith and Fiona F. Whitaker Cave Development on the Caribbean Coast of the Yucatan Peninsula, Quintana Roo, Mexico
  • Andrew Farrant Swildons Hole: a centenary reappraisal
  • Peter Smithers The Diet of the Cave Spider Meta menardi (Latreille 1804), (Araneae-Tetragnathidae).
  • Alison Blyth Vegetational and microbial ecosystem signals as preserved in stalagmites from Scotland and Ethiopia
  • Stephanie Leach, Martin Smith and Megan Brickley A Shot in the Dark. Identification of a fatal projectile injury in the skeletal remains of a young woman excavated from Feizor Nick Cave, North Yorkshire
  • Gina Moseley, Peter L. Smart and David A. Richards Quaternary Sea Level and Palaeoclimate from Submerged Speleothems 
  • Ian Fairchild, Claire Smith, Andy Baker, Lisa Fuller, Emily McMillan, Christoph Spötl, Dave Mattey, Frank McDermott, Silvia Frisia, Andrea Borsato Karstic systems and the preservation of palaeoenvironmental signals by speleothems
  • Simon Bottrell Tracing the impact of mine drainage pollution in a karst aquifer, Xingwen, China
  • Sam Allshorn Rapid karstic by-pass flow in the unsaturated zone of the Chalk and implications for contaminant transport. 
  • Trevor Faulkner Relationships between cave dimensions and local catchment areas
  • John Gunn The Roosky turloughs, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland
  • Stephanie Leach In Sickness and in Health: Earlier Neolithic human mortuary activities in Yorkshire caves and rock shelters
  • Julia Lee-Thorp Interpretation of isotope proxies and variability in a mid-latitude savanna: the Cold Air Cave stalagmites, Makapans Valley, South Africa.