BCRA Newsletter
In this newsletter: Cave Science Symposium, Annual General Meeting, BCRA Review 2019 now in press. Cave Science Symposium Our annual cave science symposium will be ...
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BCRA Newsletter and AGM details
In this newsletter: online event, Connecting with Cave Research - Advice for Student Researchers, BCRA Review 2019 available for pre-order now, and details of the ...
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Online event: Monday 19th October 2020, Connecting with Cave Research – Advice for Student Researchers
To sign up for this event, please follow the link here, and please pass details of this to your club and any students you know ...
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BCRA Cave Science Symposium, Saturday November 14 2020
The next BCRA Cave Science Symposium will take place on Saturday November 14th 2020 using an online portal. The meeting will be hosted by Professor ...
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Cave and Karst Science Vol 47 No 2: The Greenland Caves Project
The latest edition of the BCRA's journal Cave and Karst Science is wholly dedicated to the reports from the 2019 Greenland Caves Project 2019 expedition ...
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In the news
Here we go with our latest round-up of news and views from around the world. If you see anything you think we might have missed, ...
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Bucklewell Cave, Avon Gorge, Bristol
When we at DB Towers received our copy of Robin Taviner's Somerset Underground Volume 1, we were intrigued to learn that one site that he ...
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Big rivers, maze caves and a Roman dog – the latest in cave research from the BCRA
A report on the big river caves of Papua New Guinea in the Nakanai Mountains and one on harvesting swiftlet nests in Sarawak by David ...
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In the News
Here we go with our latest round-up of news and views from around the world. If you see anything you think we might have missed, ...
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In the news …
Here we go with our latest round-up of news and views from around the world. If you see anything you think we might have missed, ...
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Fish, bones, ice and carbon dioxide – more cave research from the BCRA.
Reports on large cave fish from Meghalaya, archaeological sites in Scotland and Derbyshire, ice caves in Yorkshire and carbon dioxide - historically and geologically - ...
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Travels Beneath the Earth – Celebrating the UBSS Centenary
On Saturday, 9th November 2019, the University of Bristol Speleological Society brought the public facing part of their centenary year to an end with a ...
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Cave fish, cake and karst
The BCRA's 30th annual science symposium took place at Keyworth,hosted by the British Geological Survey. I attended the Saturday session and was impressed by the ...
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Can machine learning reveal geology humans can’t see?
Identifying geological features in a densely vegetated, steep, and rough terrain can be almost impossible. Imagery like LiDAR can help researchers see through the tree ...
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Evidence for past high-level sea rise
Scientists, studying evidence preserved in speleothems in a coastal cave, illustrate that more than three million years ago -- a time in which the Earth ...
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International Greenland expedition’s record-breaking trip
Researchers from four international universities have returned from an expedition to a remote area of north-east Greenland where they broke two records. The team, comprised ...
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Aveline’s Hole: A new twist in an old tale
New samples taken for DNA analysis from human bone from Aveline's Hole by Natural History Museum researchers have thrown up surprising results. Graham Mullan reports ...
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Archaeologists identify first figurative Palaeolithic cave art in the Balkans
An international team, led by an archaeologist from the University of Southampton and the University of Bordeaux, has revealed the first example of Palaeolithic figurative ...
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