BCRA NEWSLETTER MAY 2024 Our Social media news outlets... • Facebook: http://facebook.com/groups/britishcaver • BCRA News forum: http://bcra.org.uk/forum • Twitter: http://twitter.com/bcra_speleology • UK Caving http://ukcaving.com/board/?board=86.0 In this newsletter •Next online seminar via zoom •Information on the rest of this year’s seminar programme •The 2024 BCRA Cave & Karst Science Symposium and AGM •Changes to BCRA membership system •CSTRF grants •Hidden Earth Scientific Photographic Competition •IT support •Next Council Meeting •Supporting BCRA The next online seminar is on Mo ..read more

BCRA NEWSLETTER APRIL 2024 Our Social media news outlets... • Facebook: http://facebook.com/groups/britishcaver • BCRA News forum: http://bcra.org.uk/forum • Twitter: http://twitter.com/bcra_speleology • UK Caving http://ukcaving.com/board/?board=86.0 In this newsletter •Next online seminar via zoom •Information on the rest of this year’s seminar programme •Other planned seminars up to June •The 2024 BCRA Cave & Karst Science Symposium and AGM •Changes to BCRA membership system • BCRA publications •New council member and publicity officer •Next Council Meeting •Supporting BCRA The next ..read more

CREG Journal Issue 125 (March 2024)Now Published Apologies for the delay, but CREG journal 125 is now online at https://bcra.org.uk/cregj and will be mailed on paper to our subscribers to arrive in the next week or so. Those of you who live outside the UK, and who have problems paying customs chargs on mail from the UK can buy your copy of the journal via Ebay where you will be charged our basic price, plus your local VAT or sales tax. See https://ebay.co.uk/itm/195608471931 CREG is The British Cave Research Association's special interest group for cave radio and electronics but, recently ..read more

BCRA NEWSLETTER MARCH 2024 Our Social media news outlets... • Facebook: http://facebook.com/groups/britishcaver • BCRA News forum: http://bcra.org.uk/forum • Twitter: http://twitter.com/bcra_speleology • UK Caving http://ukcaving.com/board/?board=86.0 In this newsletter •Next online seminar via zoom •Information on the rest of this year’s seminar programme •Other planned seminars up to June •The 2024 BCRA Cave & Karst Science Symposium and AGM •Changes to BCRA membership system •Student membership •Changes to BCRA publications •Next Council Meeting •Supporting BCRA The next online seminar ..read more

If you wish to post a message to this discussion group, you should follow the online information to open an account. Once you have done that it needs to be activated by an administrator. However, there seems to be a bug in the process, and the administrator is not being informed of new accounts that require activation. Therefore it is important that you email our Webmaster (see BCRA Contacts List) and ask them to activate your account. Accounts that require activation but who have not contacted us are periodically purged from the system. Statistics: Posted by David Gibson — Sat 23 Mar 2024 10 ..read more

We met via Google Meet (arranged by Tony Haigh) on 07-Mar-2024 to discuss two items, namely Arrangements regarding Rob's imminent resignation as editor of the journal Plans for a field meeting in June Attendees Rob Gill (RG), Mike Bedford (MB), David Gibson (DG) and Tony Haigh (TH) Journal Editorship RG has circulated a table of tasks required to produce the journal. RG to issue journal templates to MB & DG. RG has a list of contributors; some need following up. It was pointed out that some articles submitted need a substantial amount of time-consuming editing effort. DG thought some a ..read more

BCRA NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 2024 Our Social media news outlets... • Facebook: http://facebook.com/groups/britishcaver • BCRA News forum: http://bcra.org.uk/forum • Twitter: http://twitter.com/bcra_speleology • UK Caving http://ukcaving.com/board/?board=86.0 In this newsletter •Next online seminar via zoom •Other planned seminars •The 2024 BCRA Cave & Karst Science Symposium and AGM •Library Information • Recent BCRA field visit to look at the Chalk karst hydrogeology at Water End in Hertfordshire •Next Council Meeting •Supporting BCRA The next online seminar is on: Mon-11-Mar 2024, 19:30 to ..read more

BCRA NEWSLETTER JANUARY 2024 Our Social media news outlets... • Facebook: http://facebook.com/groups/britishcaver • BCRA News forum: http://bcra.org.uk/forum • Twitter: http://twitter.com/bcra_speleology • UK Caving http://ukcaving.com/board/?board=86.0 In this newsletter •Next online seminar via zoom •Other planned seminars •Library Update Myers Collection •Bereavement of David Gill and Dr John Wilcock •Next Council Meeting •Supporting BCRA The next online seminar is on: Mon 05-Feb-2024, 19:30 to 21:00 via Zoom. Tracking alpine cave glaciations: cryogenic cave carbonates from the Eastern and ..read more

BCRA NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 2023 Our Social media news outlets... • Facebook: http://facebook.com/groups/britishcaver ... sociation/ • BCRA News forum: http://bcra.org.uk/forum • Twitter: http://twitter.com/bcra_speleology • UK Caving http://ukcaving.com/board/?board=86.0 In this newsletter •Next online seminar via zoom •Other planned seminars •Cave and Karst Science •CREG Journal •Next Council Meeting •Supporting BCRA The next online seminar is on Mon 08-Jan-2024, 19:30 to 21:00 via Zoom. Caves, Dinosaurs and the Carnian Pluvial Episode, with Mike Simms, Senior Curator Natural Sciences, National ..read more

December 2023 CREG Journal Now Published A new quarterly CREG journal is now online at https://bcra.org.uk/cregj and will be mailed on paper to our subscribers to arrive in the week or so. For those of you who have made special arrangements to receive your subscription copy via Ebay, it is now available there. If (and only if!) you paid for a 'discount voucher' earlier, you can claim that discount by clicking on the Make Offer (Faire une offre / Preisvorschlag senden) button and offer GBP 1.50 instead of 3.50. At Ebay you will be charged our basic price, plus your local VAT or sales tax. CR ..read more