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“CALL OF THE ABYSS": Results of the Ukr.S.A. August-September 2007 expedition to Krubera Cave :: In the period August 5 – September 15, 2007 the Ukrainian Speleological Association (Ukr.S.A.) have conducted the regular expedition of the "Call of the Abyss" Project to Krubera (Voronja) Cave in Arabika Massif, Abkhazia, the deepest cave in the World. A scientific program of the expedition and cave surveying has been supervised by the Ukrainian Institute of Speleology and Karstology (UISK).

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The Worlds Greatest Karst Disaster?

Involving one hundred years of well-intended anthropogenic destruction, which is destroying a unique karst groundwater system and habitat

Hypogenic Speleogenesis Conference (Ukraine, May 2009): Extended deadline

The International Conference on "Hypogenic Speleogenesis and Karst Hydrogeology of Artesian Basins" will be held in May 2009 in Western Ukraine (Chernivtsy), an internationally recognized model region of hypogenic speleogenesis in stratified artesian settings. The region hosts the world's largest gypsum maze caves. Field excursions through karst areas of Bukovina, Pridnestrovskaja Podolia and Pokutje will be organized between and after scientific sessions. They will offer a unique opportunity for participants to familiarize themselves with a spectrum of evolutionary types of karst (from deep-seated to entrenched), presented in the region. Field trips will serve to illustrate scientific and practical issues of hypogenic speleogenesis, karst hydrogeology of artesian basins and engineering geology of covered karst.

Thesis and Dissertations Directory has been reopened in the Speleogenesis Network

As you know this section is established for publication of titles and abstracts of BSc MSc and PhD thesis relevant to karstology and geospeleology. This will help young researchers make their works better known to the scientific community of karst and cave scientists, and make readers aware of works, many of which remain unpublished and overlooked. We kindly ask our readers, especially those who are university professors and thesis supervisors, assist us in publicising this opportunity among scholars. We call for thesis titles and abstracts (extended abstracts can include few "key" figures), which can be supplemented by the link to full works if they are available on the web.

The Atlas of Cave Morphs is now alive!

We are happy to inform cave and karst scientists that the project "Atlas of Cave Morphs", preliminary announced earlier, is eventually launched online:

Sponsoring the 15th International Speleological Congress

The 15th International Congress of Speleology (ICS) Organizing Committee is working hard toward providing you an excellent conference in 2009. Some of this effort is beginning to appear as updates on our website: www.ics2009.us . I will send you specific information on most of those later, but I want to share one special update here.

Karst session at the International Geological Congress in Oslo, 2008

There will be a session "International perspectives on karst aquifers and water resources" at the International Geological Congress in Oslo,Norway in August 2008.

Acta Carsologica has entered the SCI Expanded

After several years of evaluation processes at ISI, Acta Carsologica has entered the SCI Expanded http://www.thomsonscientific.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jloptions.cgi?PC=D.

Deep cave explorations in the Western Caucasus: Connection of Illjuzia Cave to the Snezhnaja-Mezhennogo system sets it the World's 2nd deepest cave

According to the report of Alexey Shelepin, the leader of the ongoing expedition of the Speleological Commission of the Russian Geographic Society (Moscow), Illjuzia Cave has been connected to the Snezhnaja-Mezhennogo System on August 2nd.

Speleogenesis Forum is live!

The alpha version of the Forum has basic functionality that will allow members to post and discuss their ideas and opinions. You are very welcome to test it!

Karst Information Portal is live!

The Karst Information Portal (KIP) is now functional and prepared to accept both user registrations and collection content. Please, visit http://www.karstportal.org/

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