Conference Proceedings
 
ASF Biennial Conference No 29 - 2013
"TROGalong"

The 29th ASF Biennial Conference - TROGalong - was held at the St Clements Retreat Centre, Galong NSW, Australia, between the 6th and 11th January 2013. As well as the Conference Proceedings, the Conference Handbook is also held by the ASF Library. A 4-page information sheet is also included.

Click on the images below to open the entire Conference Proceedings or access the Handbook, or select individual papers from the list below. There are some linked recordings available - the quality is variable.

               

Contents of Conference Proceedings:

Contributed papers

The Tasmanic caves of eastern Australia - Armstrong Osborne - p.2    TEXT   VIDEO

Gap Creek - Boulder Caves - Garry K Smith - p.3

CO2 fluctuations in two Wombeyan caves and implications for Speleothem growth - Lydia Belford - p.14

Flank margin caves on a passive continental margin: Naracoorte and other southern Australian examples - Sue White - p.20

Origins of Cave and Feature Names in the Jenolan Show Caves - Kath Bellamy and Craig Barnes - p.25    TEXT   VIDEO

Core sampling in Western Sumatra, Indonesia - David Wools-Cobb - p.32

Bedrock, fills and cut surfaces: the story from Pungalina, Golden Valley and the Nullarbor - Henry Shannon - p.41

The history and future of Wyanbene Cave - Robert Kershaw - p.49

MUSIC OF THE CAVES: Cultural significance of sandstone caves in the Sydney Basin - John Dunkley - p.57

Investigating rare microbial communities of the Nullarbor Plain - P. Waterworth, D. Buckley, T. Brockhouse, P. Streit, B. Bulled - p.62

Presentations

Keynote: Recent developments in cave and karst science - Armstrong Osborne - p.64

Cave palaeontology in the 21st century: unearthing our underground biodiversity records to help preserve our future - Julien Louys - 65    TEXT  VIDEO

The world’s first cavers: dating the associations between man and caves over 3 million years of human history in South Africa - Andy Herries - p.66

Salt caves of the Atacama Desert, Northern Chile - John Dunkley - p.67

Workshops

Fishy recipes for volunteering - Fiona Ferguson p.71

Wyanbene cave rehabilitation and GIS workshop - Robert Kershaw p.72

Conversion of printed club journals to electronic storage, and specifications for electronic publishing - Bruce Welch - p.73

Workshop on Auriga and electronic cave surveying - Al Warild - p.78

Overview of the CEGSA digital database - Graham Pilkington - 79

OzKarst: holds the CEGSA digital database karst information - Graham Pilkington - p.82

Stretcher Workshop -  Ian Collette and Janice Marsh - p.83

Demonstration of the new ASF website - Robert Kershaw - p.84

How to improve your cave photos - Garry K Smith - p.85    TEXT   SLIDES

Geology for non-geologist cavers - Sue White - p.86    TEXT   VIDEO

Biobanking agreements - Peter Dykes - p.87

Reports

The Jenolan show cave survey - publish or perish - Julia James - p.89   TEXT   VIDEO

Scrubby Creek cave acquisition - Nic White and Daryl Carr - p.90

Conference Photographs - p.95