I'm not sure about nematodes, but for other invertebrates, there is a world wide shortage of biologists interested in taxonomy. Not to mention a lack of funding for this very basic fundamental research. These days if you find a species you suspect is new, it may be years before you find an expert that can determine if it is new, and maybe several more years before they can get through their backlog to look at your specimen. Unfortunate but true. Those bio-cavers out there, if you want to help in the study of Speleology, but aint into rocks, survey, or anthropology, please, please consider picking a type of small critter without a spine and learning how to identify and describe them and their brethren. For instance, I find cave snails fascinating, and I find them in many Ozark cave streams. They are small, and I can't identify them. I have no idea if the ones I see are one of 3 known species, 1 of which is federally endangered and known only from one cave. I have no idea if the ones I see are new species or not, and I have no one to ask for help with. We often speculate that the are 1 of the more common species, but then again we think that one is common cause we often report it as the likely species, cause it's more common. Just a little bit of circular logic there. What we need is someone who is passionate about caves and cave critters who is willing to learn how to study them not just study them. Same goes for isopods amphipods, spiders(I've seen some wicked cool cave spiders that doing strange things deep in caves), millipedes, pretty much anything white small and underground.
Ok, rant over, still a neat worm.
Oh and we already have the MOU's in place for the public stuff and access lined up for the private, shovel ready so to speak.