The Southwest Region meeting (
http://www.caves.org/region/swr/) will be Sept 6-7 about an hour west of Albuquerque, contact Blake Jordan
Blandevoid@comcast.net. He also does the GypKap project in caves near Roswell.
Fort Stanton Cave Study Project, fscsp.org, has a trip in early October, and you should be able to meet some almost local people there.
Also try Lubbock Area Grotto
http://www.nssio.org/find_grotto_detail.cfm?gid=000317.
Jen