Caving Links

Currently Active:

Bookmarks:

05-Mar-2013

• OTR Sauna History - @Fb

09-Feb-2013

• Attend an Online Tour of West Virginia's Caves and Karst [Dasher 13-Feb-2013] - Caving News

• NSS Webinars
• NSS Webinars -- Upcoming

07-Feb-2013

• NSS 2013 Convention - Online Registration

05-Feb-2013

• Footleg's Cave Converter - [handles formats: Survex, PocketTopo/Toporobot, DXF ]
• Paperless Cave Surveying - [The DistoX w/ PocketTopo App.]

23-Dec-2012

• Story-Map: Millions of bats are dying from White-nose Syndrome

21-Dec-2012

• Journal of Cave and Karst Studies Volume 74

06-Dec-2012

• NSS-HQ [PDF]

10-July-2012

• Baltimore Grotto rained on at 2007 NSS Indiana Convention - YouTube
• FALL VAR - [on Fb]
• Fall VAR 2012 Home Page
• Battlefield Area Troglodyte Society

20-May-2012

• Caves and Karst of WV / George Dasher / 2012 Spr. VAR

19-Apr-2012

• Cave Rescue Roster for: VPI Cave Club

13-Feb-2012

• Amber Lehmann [@FB]
• Welcome to Batgoods.com - Joint BCI/Speleobooks website
• Caving News - Daily Cave News for Cavers, by Cavers!

29-May-2011

• Cavechat.org -- Index page
• CMAP Software
• BCRA :: British Cave Research Association: Home Page
• BCRA / CREG - Cave Radio & Electronics Group

04-Feb-2011

• Paxton's Cave, VA Photo Gallery by Ehren at pbase.com
• TriTrog Secretary Blog
• Triangle Troglodytes [eastern NC]
• PaxtonsCave

19-Dec-2010

• OnRope1 -- Store Page
• The Perfect [LED] Light - for Caving
• Cave Equipment Vendors - [at Timpanogos Grotto website]

• PSC New Year's Party

16-Aug-2010

• Gary Moss stuff:
  • /~gmoss/DCG Gary's alternate DCG Logos
  • /~gmoss
  • /~gmoss/Chip
  • /~gmoss/Chip/ChipsCaversHistoryVol#1
  • 12187_BruRandallLadderOTR.jpg (JPEG Image, 533x800 pixels)

  • FPA - Internet
  • Welcome to Nova.Org [Nova.Org]

14-July-2010

• VA DCR - WNS Caving protocols Recommendations - Jul 12 2010 [pdf]
• Virginia Cave Board
• US-F&WS - White-Nose Syndrome - Cavers Page

26-Mar-2010

• Pa Game Commission Tracks White-Nose Syndrome In Bats -- AmmoLand.com
• wnsmap.jpg (JPEG Image, 966x1107 pixels) - at state.pa.us
• Pennsylvania Game Commission - State Wildlife Management Agency - WNS page
• Hellhole Bat Count February 2010 - 11_Cal_Butchkoski_Mark_Minton_Counting_VBEBs_on_Way_to_Plecotus_Room
• Crew makes fantastic find  - News - Charleston Daily Mail - West Virginia News and Sports -
• tristategrotto.net - by wvurl.com -- Sherr Crystal Cave
• Cavechat.org - NSS Calls for Public/Private Partnership to Combat WNS / Peter.Y on WNS transmission

15-Dec-2009

• PSC 50th - Photos - Page 1 of 3
• CMAP Software [at PSC site]

08-Dec-2009

• Old Timers Reunion - OTR
• MAR -Calendar of Events
• butlercave.org - 50/40 celebration, and bccs links
• Butler Cave Conservation Society, Inc. (BCCS)

12-Oct-2009

• JGCP - J. Guilday Caves Preserve (NSS)

11-July-2009

• NSS Brochures

10-May-2009 - More WNS Links

• IN-DNR: Bat Disease | 5/1/09 News Release on Closing IN Caves

• USGS: Bat-opsy Ctr. | Ft.Collins Sci.Ctr. (good overview)

05-May-2009

• AP: Forest Service tries to halt spread of bat fungus - Close (20 + 13) states

01-May-2009

• AP: Forest Service tries to halt spread of bat fungus - Closing many more caves
• British explorers discover world's largest cave deep in Vietnamese jungle | Mail Online

27-Apr-2009 - More WNS Links

• Sinnett-Thorn Cave Conservancy
• 4/20/2009~Interior Secretary Salazar Announces Award of $9 million in Grants to States for Imperiled Species Conservation
• ICS WNS Policy

17-Apr-2009 - More WNS Links

• Virginia Cave Week: Home | 2009

• VA-DCR Karst & Bats | VA Cave Board | VA-DGIF

• What's Killing The Bats? - CBS News Video
• Sick bats' PR problem could prove to be deadly - The Boston Globe [re lack of funding]

14-Apr-2009

• Bill Putnam - Write-In Candidate for the 2009 NSS Board of Directors Election

• WVCC Adopts WNS Policy
• Virginia Investigating Possible Cases of White-Nose Syndrome in Bats [VA-DGIF 3/9/2009]
• White-Nose Syndrome Confirmed in Bats from Two Caves in Virginia [VA-DGIF WNS page]

13-Apr-2009

• VA-DCR WNS recommendations (PDF)   [for after 15-Apr-2009]

23-Feb-2009

• Web Page for Barbara Anne am Ende
• deepcaves.net main page - Barbara am Ende

20-Feb-2009

• MAR -Annual Business Meeting
• Sinnett-Thorn Cave Conservancy

09-Feb-2009

• MAR-NSS : Listserv for the Mid-Appalachian Region of the National Speleological Society (MAR).

07-Feb-2009

• Western Bat Working Group
• White nose syndrome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• NSS Online Cavers - Connecting Cavers with Cavers!
• NSS Member Search
• NSS Search Page

• NSS: The Web Team
• NSS - Webmaster Style Sheet
• Password-protecting sub-dirs on Apache web-server, used by NSS

• How to Password-Protect a Web Subdirectory - (at Penn. State)
• Encrypted Password Generator for .htpasswd file - (at Penn.State)
• Apache Core Features - .htaccess "Require" directive

17-Jan-2009

• Tri-State Grotto VAR09.htm page
• Virginia Region Spring VAR Meeting - 2009

14-Dec-2008

• Bill Stone's Stone-Aerospace: Main | About-us | Blog-Antarctica

04-Sept-2008 bookmarks

• Compass - Cave Survey & Mapping S/W
• Larry Fish: Problem with Least Squares Loop Closures | More On Least Squares
• John Halleck: Main | Caving Stuff | Cave Survey Page

29-Feb-2008 bookmarks

• WNS - Notice to WV Cavers

20-Feb-2008 bookmarks

• Index of ftp://ftp.dec.state.ny.us/dpae/press/Bats/
• Trout Rock Bat Counts

05-Feb-2008 bookmarks

• Cavechat.org • View topic - Mapping Programs

29-Jan-2008 bookmarks

• On Station Cave Mapping Software + RosettaStal
• Cave Survey Software - An Overview - 8-Jun-2001
• Sam Wormley's Global Positioning System (GPS) Resources
• UTM, Universal Transverse Mercator coordinates; How to Read.

23-Jan-2008 bookmarks

• WV Speleo Log
• The Survex Project -- open-source cave-surveying s/w package
• About Therion -- Digital Cave Maps
• Walls Cave Survey Program Software Texas Speleological Survey
• NOAA's Geophysical Data Center - Geomagnetic Data-- Declination Calculator
• Therion Book -- 74pg -- thbook.pdf (application/pdf Object)

16-Jan-2008 bookmarks

• CMAP Software

• WV Topo Maps

18-May-2007 bookmarks

• NSS/SACS - Survey And Cartography Section
• Thru-the-Earth Radio-Location - Brian Pease

13-May-2007 bookmarks ( Cave Survey Links )

• Loop Closure - by Larry Fish
• Compass Cave Survey and Mapping Software - Home Page
• The Cavers Digest Home Page
• Cave Survey Software - An Overview [8-Jun-2001]
• On-Station 3.1 Cave Mapping Software [3-May-2006]
• RosettaStal - Garry Petrie's (WinKarst) enhancements
• WinKarst Cave Mapping Software (Garry Petrie)
• BasicDEM - [Digital Elevation Models]
• GeoMagnetic Calculator [declination]
• CMAP Software, and other S/W, at PSC

06-May-2007 bookmarks

• DC pg205 -- DCG history
• VAR Grottos pg204
• Karst-O-Rama

25-Apr-2007 bookmarks

• 2007 NSS Convention - Promotional Video

12-Apr-2007 bookmarks

• MapQuest Map of Marengo, IN: Area | Town

01-Aug-2004:

• Misc.:
  • Caves.com--A site for cavers
  • Speleomania
  • The Cavers Digest Home Page

 From old web-page:

• International
  • Newsgroup: alt.caving
  • Catalog of caving web-sites around the world
  • Sherry Mayo's Catalog of caving Info.
  • International Speleological Links
  • Notes on Alpine SRT techniques
  • Bat Conservation International
  • Speleo Technics - equipment
  • Tour a virtual cave!
  • Espeleo Espana
• United States
  • National Speleological Society
  • Potomac Speleological Society
  • DC Grotto (Mike Duncan's server)
  • Caver's Digest
  • Southeastern PA Caving Info
  • Blacksburg Electronic Village
  • Appalachian Grotto
  • Upper Cumberland Grotto
  • Groupe Speleo Laragotrolls
  • Monongahela Grotto
  • Robert's Caving Page
  • Speleology Server Home Page
  • Carlsbad Nat'l Park
  • TSA (Texas)
  • UnderTech (Huntsville)
  • UT Grotto
• England
  • Kingston University
  • Lancaster University
  • Sheffield University
  • Weil's Disease Info Centre
  • Andrew Brooks' British caving links
  • Craven Pothole Club
  • Nottingham U.
  • U of London CC
  • Keyhole Caving Club (St. Albans)
• Equipment, Etc.
  • SpeleoBooks
  • Blue Water Ropes, Inc.
  • Blue Water Climbing (Aus.)
  • Cave Radio & Electronics Group
  • Nevtek Flourescent Lamps
  • Caving Knots
  • Knots on the Web
  • Karst Sports
  • WinKarst Cave Mapping S/W