Registration

We are able to significantly reduce registration fees due to sponsorships and supports from the General Shale Brick Natural History Museum and the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs at ETSU, ESRI, EPA Region 3, Virginia DCR Natural Heritage Program, Virginia Cave Board, Cave Conservancy Foundation, Cave Conservancy of the Virginias, P.E. LaMoreaux & Associates, Inc. (PELA), the Journal of Cave and Karst Studies (JCKS), and the Karst Waters Institute (KWI).  Registration fees cover reception, all technical sessions, keynote sessions, lunches, and banquet. Registration is processed by the Office of Professional Development at ETSU. Please connect to the following website for registration and lodging information: http://www.etsu.edu/scs/KarstSymposium.htm

Johnson City is in the extreme northeast region of Tennessee , nestled in the southern Appalachian Mountains . Two other cities neighbor Johnson City , Bristol and Kingsport , which gives this area the name of "The TriCities". These cities are serviced by the TriCity, Tennessee (TRI) regional airport . Weather in May is typically sunny with highs in the low- to mid-70s and lows in the mid-50s.

Wednesday, May 7

5 p.m. – Arrival and Evening social

Public Lectures:

6:00 p.m. Barry Beck, PE Lamoreaux and Associates, "Sinkhole Collapse, Groundwater Pollution, and Flooding: A Citizen's Introduction to Living on Limestone"

6:45 p.m. Harry Moore , "Gray Fossil Site, TDOT Legacy Project SR 75, Washington County"

Thursday, May 8

9 a.m. Session 1 : Genesis, geomorphology, and hydrology of Appalachian Karst

Keynote Address - Will White: The Evolution of the Appalachian Fluviokarst: Competition between Stream Erosion, Cave Development, Surface Denudation, and Tectonic Uplift

9:50 - 10:20 a.m. Break

10:20 a.m. Daniel H. Doctor, Wil Orndorff, and Niel Plummer: Evidence for early hydrothermal origin of karst aquifers and caves in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia and West Virginia

10:40 a.m. Joey Fagan and Wil Orndorff: Karst Hydrology Investigations in the Cambrian Elbrook and Conococheague Formations of Pulaski and Montgomery Counties, Virginia

11:00 a.m. Wil Orndorff, Ben Schwartz, Zenah Orndorff, and Mike Futrell: Hydrology of the Middle Ordovician Scarp Slope Karst, Valley and Ridge Province, Virginia

11:20 a.m. Benjamin Schwartz, Wil Orndorff, Mike Ficco, Bill Balfour, Nevin W. Davis, and Mike Futrell: Hydrogeology of the Mississippian Carbonate Karst System, Powell Mountain, Virginia

11:40 a.m. Wil Orndorff, Josh Rubinstein, Niel Plummer, and Joel Maynard: The composite alluvial-karst aquifer system of the North River Headwaters, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia

12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Lunch

1:00 pm Session 2 : Managing and Protecting Appalachian Karst

Keynote Address - Art Palmer: Cave Exploration as a Guide to Hydrologic and Geochemical Research in the Appalachian Mountains

2:00 p.m. Thomas Lera: Effectiveness of the Virginia Cave Protection Act

2:20 p.m. Lee Stocks: Objected-Oriented Image Analysis for Sinkhole Inventory

2:40 p.m. David J. Weary: Preliminary Map of Potentially Karstic Carbonate Rocks in the Central and Southern Appalachian States

3:00 p.m. Ernst H. Kastning: Cave Regions of New England - A Diversity of Karst and Pseudokarst

3:20– 3:50 p.m. Break

3:50 - 5:00 p.m. Panel Discussion – Karst Database Development, Cave Surveys and Conservations

5:00 – 6:30 p.m. Social and Poster Session

Amy Edwards: Karst Resource Management at Antietam National Battlefield National Park Service

Toby Dogwiler, Eric W. Peterson, Julie Carol Angel, John Woodside, and Kimberly A.1 Gorecki: The Speleogenesis of the Cave Branch and Horn Hollow Karst Systems, Carter Caves State Resort Park, Northeastern Kentucky

Gregory Springer, Harry Rowe, Ben Hardt, Frank G. Cocina, R. Lawrence Edwards, and Hai Cheng : Holocene Climate and Fluvial Geomorphology of the Central Appalachians of Southeastern West Virginia

Lawrence E. Spangler and Tom Devilbiss: Karst Development in the Wakefield Marble, central Maryland

Benjamin Schwartz, Stuart Hyde, Madeline Schreiber, Wil Orndorff, Daniel H. Doctor, David Culver, Tanja Pipan, Janet W. Reid: High Resolution Hydrobiogeochemical Response of Cave Drip-waters to Surface Conditions

Robert Benfield: Karst Description of the Northeast Tennessee Area

Yongli Gao and Sid Jones: Large sinkholes and Tiankeng like features in Eastern Tennessee

T. Shannon O’Quinn and Yongli Gao: Development of a Reservoir Embayment Characterization Process to Prioritize Water Quality Improvement Efforts

7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Banquet

Keynote Address - Russell Graham: Mammal Response to Late Quaternary Climate Fluctuations along the Appalachian Gradient – Implications for Future Global Warming

Friday, May 9

9 a.m. Session 3 : Studying the past: paleontology, archaeology, and paleo-climatology of Appalachian Caves

Keynote Address - Gregory Springer, Harry Rowe, Ben Hardt, Frank G. Cocina, Matthew D. White, R. Lawrence Edwards, and Hai Cheng : Climate And Native Americans As The Primary Drivers Of Pleistocene And Holocene Environmental Changes In The Central Appalachians: A 300,000 Year Long Record Compiled From Stalagmites And Clastic Cave Sediments

9:50 - 10:10 a.m. Break

10:10 a.m. Blaine W. Schubert: An Update on Cave Paleontology in the Southern Appalachians

10:25 a.m. Blaine W. Schubert, April S. Nye, and Steven C. Wallace: The Late Pleistocene Vertebrate Fauna from Guy Wilson Cave, Sullivan County, Tennessee

10:40 a.m. Session 4 : Biological Research in Appalachian Caves and Karst

10:40 a.m. Stuart W. McGregor, Patrick E. O’Neil, Karen F. Burnett, and Randall Blackwood: A Synopsis of Studies of the Alabama Cave Shrimp and its Habitats

11:00 a.m. Wil Orndorff, Shane Hanlon, Bill Balfour, Chris Hobson, and Joey Fagan: Hydrology of Habitat and Range of Stygobitic Species of the Genus Lirceus in Virginia

11:20 a.m. Ben Hutchins and Wil Orndorff: Sampling wells for stygobionts in the karst aquifer of the Shenandoah Valley, West Virginia, USA: Distributional and ecological data for the Madison Cave Isopod, Antrolana lira

11:40 a.m. Matthew L. Niemiller and Brian T. Miller: A Survey of the Cave-associated Amphibians and Reptiles of the Eastern United States

12 -1 Lunch

1:00 p.m. Session 5 : Geotechnical methods and GIS techniques applied to karst

1:00 p.m. Harry Moore: Karst and its Application to Geotechnical Issues along the Proposed SR 475 (Knoxville Parkway), Knox County, Tennessee , Tennessee

1:20 p.m. Ted Dean and Chris Printz: Resistivity Imaging as a Tool for Karst Investigations

1:40 p.m. Randy M. Curtis and Thomas J. Aley: Investigation of Monitorability Issues for Groundwater in the Zachs Knob Syncline Area, Northeast Tennessee

2:00 p.m. J. E. Smith: Karst Landfill Groundwater Assessments in the Valley and Ridge Geologic Province of Tennessee and Virginia

2:20 p.m. Joseph A. Fischer, Richard S. Ottoson, James G. McWhorter, and Joseph J. Fischer: Sinkhole Remediation in Appalachian Karst

2:40 - 3:30 p.m. Break and Gray Fossil Site tour

3:30 - 4:00 p.m. Appalachian Karst Symposium Planning Meeting

4:00 - 6:00 p.m. Karst and Springs in NE Tennessee (optional field trip)

6:00 - 9:00 p.m. Friends of Karst get together or dinner on your own

Saturday, May 10, 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Field Trip : The Karst of northeastern Tennessee and southwestern Virginia