Check out the February Cave and Karst News! conta.cc/3SLW1Ym #caves #karst #cavescience #grants

We’ve extended the deadline to Monday March 11! With support for student travel, there’s no reason not to submit an abstract 👩🏻‍🔬

Last and final deadline extension is March 11! We have travel support for students so there’s no reason not to submit an abstract

Nominations for GSA Karst Divisions Awards are now open!!!! Let's celebrate the great research being done in our community 🥳🥳🥳 For more information on the *different* awards, use the link below: community.geosociety.org/karstdivision/…

*Deadline Approaching* Just two more weeks before the NCKRI National and Internal Seed Grants are due. To find out more go to: nmt.edu/research/organ… To see our previous winners: nckri.org/academic-progr… #cave #karst #Grants #funding

Off to the races with our first keynote speaker Dr. Magdalena Osburn @ProfMaggie

Next up New Mexico Tech NMTBiology student Nathaniel Jobe talking about viruses 🦠

Moving out of the deep subsurface and into carbon offsets with Dr. Cedric Hagen from CU Boulder 🦬

Taking us into the world of methanogensis is Harpreet Batther from CU Boulder 🦬

Dr. Devan Nisson from Princeton University is our second invited keynote speaker for the day!

We’re coming up to the surface! Dr. Vachel Kraklow from Los Alamos National Laboratory is sharing some recent work in the paleoecology realm on reconstructing fire intensities

Extremophiles! New Mexico Tech NMTBiology student Abbey Brown takes us to Valles Caldera National Preserve

Holly Levett from Univ. of New Mexico is taking us south to the PICLs of Antarctica

Our final talk of the third talk session is New Mexico Tech NMTBiology ‘s Calyssa Huff who’s speaking about planetary protection 🚀

Sulfur’s on the brain for our final talk for the day is from invited keynote speaker Dr. Morgan Raven from UC Santa Barbara

That’s a wrap! Thank you so much to everyone who attended and presented yesterday! A great day of presentations and posters and socializing! Thank you to all of our sponsors incl. the Agouron Institute U.S. National Science Foundation NM Consortium New Mexico Tech & NM Bureau of Geology See you next year!

Congratulations Dr. Zoë Havlena!!

Cave pools in Carlsbad Caverns National Park contain diverse bacteriophage communities and novel viral sequences biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Metagenomic insights into an enigmatic gammaproteobacterium that is important for carbon cycling in cave ecosystems worldwide biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Attention biologists! New Mexico Tech is hiring! Please see the ad below for a tenure track Assistant Professor position, broadly defined. Review of applications begins September 27th. Please help spread the word! nmt.edu/hr/docs/hr/job…