2007 NCKMS

[Cheryl Jones]

First Call for Papers

NCKMS 2007, St. Louis, Missouri
Theme: Cave & Karst Conservation in the Ozarks

The National Cave & Karst Management Symposium will be held in St. Louis, Missouri, October 8-12, 2007. This is the first call for papers. For a preview of the NCKMS, see http://www.utexas.edu/tmm/sponsored_sit ... nckms.html

By April 1, 2007, please submit a title and abstract of your paper or poster to Bill.Elliott@mdc.mo.gov . Submit now for a better chance of getting on the schedule. This also will help us decide how to formulate the sessions (see below).

Abstracts are limited to 250 words. Our theme is “Cave and Karst Conservation in the Ozarksâ€

[Cheryl Jones]

Dear Colleague,

I hope you're planning to come to the National Cave & Karst Management Symposium, October 8-12, 2007, in St. Louis. A preview of the Symposium can be seen at http://www.utexas.edu/tmm/sponsored_sit ... peleology/

We also have a registration website at http://www.nckms2007.org/

If you are budgeting now for FY08, please be aware that the registration fee will be $120 each ($150 after Sept. 1). Registration includes all sessions, the Monday evening reception, Tuesday through Thursday lunches, the Wednesday field trip and evening meal, and the Thursday night banquet. The hotel room is $89 per night, but it can be split with another person. Other meals are at your expense. The Tuesday night photo exhibit and speaker panel at Powder Valley Conservation Nature Center are free to you and the public!

Please see the call for papers on the website. If you want to give a paper, just send me a working title for now, so I can fit it in the right session. Or, you can give a poster. Final titles and abstracts are due Sept. 1.

Sincerely,

Bill

William R. Elliott
Chair, National Cave & Karst Management Symposium 2007
Missouri Department of Conservation
Resource Science Division
P.O. Box 180
Jefferson City, MO 65102-0180
Bill.Elliott@mdc.mo.gov
573-522-4115 ext 3194

[Cheryl Jones]

The 2007 NCKMS Web site has been updated http://www.utexas.edu/tmm/sponsored_sit ... nckms.html

And the preliminary schedule has been posted.

Our schedule is nearly full! We have about 50 papers and 8 posters. The April 1 deadline for working titles and abstracts is past, and newcomers may have to present posters instead. We do need more posters, however.

It's gonna be a superb event! Great presentations by leaders in the field, outstanding networking opportunities, interesting field trips, and lots to learn and discuss. And the symposiums are not nearly as serious and dull as the name might sound.....

If you have any interest at all in any aspect of cave and karst management, you had better plan to attend.

October 8-12, 2007, St. Louis, MO.

Cheryl
Chairman
NCKMS Steering Committee

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