Meeting Minutes 3/7/2012

6 people in attendance

Meeting called to order by Chairman Jeremy Browning at 8:02pm

Treasurers Report:

- After subtracting a $56 West Virginia Caver bill our total comes to $756.44

Vertical Practice:

- 3 people showed up.

- Jeremy will probably stop having the regular Tuesday vertical practices because no one has been showing up. Instead vertical practices will be by request only. Please contact Jeremy Browning or Andrew Rowell if you would like a vertical practice.

- There will probably be more outdoor vertical practices.

Old Business:

- Signatures were provided and the grant has been submitted!

- The newsletter is still being completed. It will be done by the end of the semester.

- Have not heard anything about the modified logo.

- Allen called Bruce (the manager of Club Sports) and he is to call him back.

- Jeremy will contact Garth about rescheduling Easter Beer.

New Business:

- A guy was referred to the grotto to make an in cave video. No one objected to being videoed although many grotto members agreed that more lights are beneficial. Allen explained how more diffuse light would be beneficial.

- The NSS convention student reception was brought up. Glow-in-the-dark body paint and black lights were one of the ideas for ways to entertain ourselves.

- Nicole told Jeremy to ask the grotto about having a movie night. The grotto agreed to watch Sanctum next week and the rest the following week.

- Jeremy or Andrew will talk to Nicole about the Simmons-Mingo trip.

- People are still interested in going to TAG

- Allen showed the grotto a 3D video of Short Cave that he underlain beneath a DEM in ArcScene.

Trip Reports:

- Allen took a 12.5 hour trip to Short Cave where he and Ryan Boyce surveyed around 520 feet of okay passage and also found the new lowest point in the cave. He found 3 pools of water in the new lowest passage in the cave. One pool had water coming up from a hole and sinking down into another. Two of the pools were around 1 foot- 2 feet deep and the other was around 3.5-5 feet deep. The deeper pool had an under passage or shelf. The cave is now 140 feet deep and 1.87 miles long. One more survey trip should complete the new passage surveys and he will next go back and fix blunders before he completes his map of the cave.

Important Dates:

- 3-18-2012: Simmons Mingo Trip

- March 24-31: TAG trip scheduled

- March 30 – April 1: Beginner level orientation to cave rescue in Harrisonburg, Va at EMU

- April 20-22: Pendleton county trip

- April 27-29 Spring VAR

- June 25-29: NSS convention

- August 30 –September 1: OTR

Meeting adjourned by Chairman Jeremy Browning at 8:30pm