BCRA Cave Science Symposium

This event has now finished.
Many thanks to all involved for a fantastic day.

The BCRA’s Cave Science Symposium will be held online on Saturday 14th November. A full day of seminars across a range of cave science topics has been prepared by Dr Mike Rogerson of Northumbria University, where the event was to have been held prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The BCRA will also hold it’s AGM during the course of the day; the agenda and further details of this can be found here.

Attendance is open to all – you do not need to hold BCRA membership to sign up.

Registration can be completed using the following Google form: https://tinyurl.com/y5fhvpqy

We hope to see many of you in attendance!

Schedule of Events

Time	Activity	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
9.30 – 9.45	Introduction, sorting connections and housekeeping	Mike Rogerson / John Gunn
9.45 – 10.15	Seminar	Andy Baker	University of New South Wales	The ACKMA Cave Climate Project
10.15 – 10.45	Seminar	Andi Smith	British Geological Survey	Exploring the impact of tourists on the cave environment: A COVID 19 case study from Poole’s Cavern, Derbyshire, UK.
10.45-11.00	COFFEE
11.00 – 11.30	Seminar	Carole Nehme	University of Rouen	The story behind the Chalk karst networks in Normandy (France) and their relation to the incision of the Seine valley during the Quaternary
11.30 – 12.00	Seminar	Agni Prijatelj	Durham University	Sediment micromorphology and site formation processes at Chechem Ha Cave, western Belize
12.00 – 13:00	BCRA AGM	John Gunn
13:00 – 13.30	LUNCH
13.30 – 14.00	Seminar	Annabel Wolf	Northumbria University	Caves in central Vietnam and what they tell us about past tropical cyclones
14.00 – 14.30	Seminar	Sebastian Breitenbach	Northumbria University	A stalagmite-based multi-proxy reconstruction of Glacial-Holocene climate variability from Sarma Cave in the Caucasus Mountains (Georgia)
14.30 – 15.00	Seminar	Paul Toechterle	University of Innsbruck	A cave-based reconstruction of permafrost dynamics during the last glacial period: from the Peak District, UK
15.00 – 15.15	COFFEE
15.15 – 15:45	Seminar	Lucas Godinho	Sao Paolo University	Fluvial erosion rates at the São Desidério river, central Brazil, based on cave deposits dating
15.45 – 16.15	Seminar	Tom Thomson	Natural History Museum	Speleobiology in Northern Spain: The Work of the Matienzo Karst Entomology Project.
16.15 – 16:45	Closing comments, and discussion	Mike Rogerson / John Gunn