Here you can read about the 12. Biospeleological expedition in Morocco, which lasted from november 30 to december 6, 2009.
Monthly Archives: December 2009
International Speleo Conference (Russia 2010)
December 29, 2009 – 11:53 am
Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of the Organizing committee you are invited to take part in
the International Scientific and Practical Conference “Speleology and
Spelestology: development and interaction of sciences“ which will be
held from 16 to 20 November 2010 in Naberezhnye Chelny (Russia)
Themes of Conference
In frames of conference for holding scientific discussions three
sections are planned to be organized. The [...]
Abisso Bueno Fonteno – an attempt at the final sump
December 21, 2009 – 1:54 pm
From december 6 to 8, 2009, there was a big expedition in Bueno Fonteno cave, two cave divers attempted to dive trough the final sump of the cave. There was 50 people from local caving clubs aiding them to transport the material to the bottom of the cave (-451m, 15km). More info at Scintilena.
JuHoeFoLa2010 International Training Camp for Young Speleologists
December 18, 2009 – 9:44 am
Dear cavers!
The well known team of now the “Höhlenverein Blaubeuren” (Caving Club of Blaubeuren) will continue to organize the international training camp for young cavers (JuHöFola). Please see www.juhoefola.de <http://www.juhoefola.de>, and at once with this mail. Now there is a new opportunity to get partial EU funding for our camp we plan for 2010. Therefore [...]
Illyuzia-Mezhonnogo-Snezhnaya 2008/2009
December 17, 2009 – 9:15 am
From December of 2008, to January of 2009, an expedition of 16 people visited the second deepest cave on Earth, the Illyuzia-Mezhonnogo-Snezhnaya system. They have choosen the highest entrance to enter, and their plan was to explore the bottom of the cave (-1750m,15km+). Because of high level of water, and the big horizontal distance in [...]
The Best Speleo Photo of 2009 – contest!
December 15, 2009 – 9:14 am
The caving club Aenigma for the forth time already is organizing the photo contest THE SPELEO PHOTO OF THE YEAR to choose the best photo on the caving theme. Everybody who has taken photos in the caves or speleological expeditions and thinks that he has succeeded is invited to participate in it
You may [...]
Culiembro 2009
December 14, 2009 – 3:49 pm
The team of cavers and divers spent two weeks in the field based at the village of Cain, high in the Picos de Europa mountains. During these two weeks the team worked in the cave to survey the passages, climb waterfalls and dive unexplored underwater sections. All of the various open ends of the cave [...]
Speleo drawings about Padirac expo
December 11, 2009 – 9:29 am
On calcairecrayon blog you can find a nice series of drawings about a Padirac expedition.
Speleokonfrontacje 2009
December 9, 2009 – 10:01 am
On november 21-22 was gathered 14. Speleokonfrontacje, regular meeting of polish speleologists. There was around 250 people from 20 different clubs. There was 14 presentations competed with each other, and pictures from Cave Photography contest were also presented.
more at pza.org