KWI Conduit

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Volume VII, Number 1-2

Spring/Fall 1999

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Dave Culver

Several KWI activities over the past several months are worthy of special note.  March saw the fourth KWI conference--this one on Modeling.  It continues our tradition and strength of interdisciplinary research and inquiry, and outreach beyond the traditional karst science community.  I am especially grateful to Art Palmer and Bill Jones for making this a successful meeting.  Plans are beginning for a fifth KWI conference to be held in the winter of 2001-2002, on the Florida karst.  John Mylroie and Horton Hobbs are heading up the initial planning efforts.

The Education Committee continued to be active.  A training session for U.S. Forest Service volunteers was held in Verona, Virginia in August. This session was designed to help volunteers with their biotic inventory of the aquatic fauna of caves of the Washington and Jefferson National Forests in Virginia.  It continues our tradition of training and teaching interested amateurs about cave biology.  Horton Hobbs, Dan Fong, Kevin Simon and I ran the workshop.

There are still planning efforts continuing in the research front,  and one of these was brought to fruition with a new contract from The Nature Conservancy to list the subterranean fauna of Alaska, Canada, and Hawaii.

Finally, let me thank Bob Cronk, KWI's own web master for the new KWI web page, and let me thank Ira Sasowsky and Chris Belson for their continuing work on the web site.  Bob has done a marvelous job.  Let's hope it grows and grows.
 
 

KWI Conduit
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