Conference Proceedings
 
ASF Biennial Conference No 31 - 2018-19
"The Darkness Beneath"

The 31st ASF Biennial Conference - The Darkness Beneath - was held in Devonport, Tasmania, Australia from the 30th December 2018 to the 4th of January 2019. There were two days of pre-conference caving and five days of post-conference caving associated with this event. The Proceedings were produced in a digital format only.

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Contents of Conference Proceedings:

Monday

Bioluminescence in cave glow-worms - David Merritt - p.5

Naracoorte Caves: a critical window on faunal extinctions, and past climates - Liz Reed - p.12

Seeking the Master Cave — the Junee River Karst System - Alan Jackson - p.20

Push Day and the challenges of filming underground - Fraser Johnston - p.21

Caves of the Western Australian Mid-West: a brief history of human interaction - Ann-Marie Meredith -p.22

Keeping White-nose syndrome out of Australia - Yvonne Ingeme, Peter Holz p.28

Tuesday

Wilderness wild karst in Tasmania - Chris Sharples - p.39

Huautla — cave diving for exploration and science in one of the world’s most spectacular deep caves - Andreas Klocker - p.50

Slaying the Beast — mapping Kubla Khan - Alan Jackson - p.64

The Australian Speleological Federation Strategic Plan — 2019 to 2024 - Steve Milner - p.77

Rescue training on the North Island - Brian Evans - p.85

Rescue training in Tasmania - Janice March - p.92

The Midnight Hole rescue: insights into Tasmania’s first, vertical cave rescue - Andreas Klocker - p.98

Thailand lessons symposium - Brian Evans - p.104

Rescue in an iconic cave: the Kubla Khan Cave Rescue, Plan V1 (2017) - Deb Hunter p.107

World Heritage values, Aboriginal heritage and conservation, issues of the Mole Creek karst explained - Deb Hunter - p.108

Wednesday

Excursion Day

Thursday

FORUM: Cave access, conservation and management - p.110

A strategic approach to improve cave access and conservation - Steve Milner, Stefan Eberhard and Nicholas White - p.111

Balancing access and conservation through collaborative relationships - Stefan Eberhard and Bronwen Prazak - p.115

Chasing mega caves in Vietnam - Alan Jackson - p.120

Caving in the far north — the 2018 recce to Ha Giang, Vietnam - Adam Spillane - p.122

Oxalis — commercial cave tour operator in Vietnam - Steve Bourne - p.123

Taking the Tasmanian Cave Spider to the world - Niall Doran - p.135

LAUNCH: Cave Animal of the Year - Cathie Plowman and Niall Doran - p.136

Friday

Concrete derived hyper-alkaline leachate creates calthemite straw stalactites, properties of which are compared to speleothem straws - Garry K Smith - p.139

OzKarst and GIS — the big picture with a Nullarbor perspective - Bob Kershaw - p.149

The collapsing Nullarbor: Weebubbie Cave 6N-2 - Norman Poulter - p.156

Bunda Cliffs — exploration update 2017 - Steven J Milner - p.166

35 years under the Nullarbor - Stefan Eberhard - p.173

A simple field technique for measuring streamflow and some examples from NSW and Tasmania - Henry Shannon - p.174

Unusual or isolated caves in Victoria - Susan White - p.178

Fauna of a granite cave: first data from Britannia Creek Cave (3GP10-48), Wesburn, Victoria, Australia - Silvana Iannello, Penelope Greenslade, Grant Palmer - p.181

Hit or miss could mean life or death for juvenile Southern Bent-wing Bats - Yvonne Ingeme, Amanda Bush, Lindy Lumsden, Emmi van Harten, Steve Bourne, Terry Reardon - p.195

POSTER: Monitoring a bat maternity cave in south-eastern Australia using remote technology - Yvonne Ingeme, Amanda Bush, Lindy Lumsden, Reto Zollinger - p.202

POSTER: Disturbance caused to cave-roosting bats during ecological monitoring: implications for researchers and cavers - Amanda Bush, Lindy Lumsden, Yvonne Ingeme, Christa Beckmann, Peter Biro - p.203

POSTER: Caves of the Nullarbor — their nature and setting - Henry Shannon - p.204