Extensions to the printed NSS News
What is this page all about?
This is a new idea I came up with to "extend" the printed NSS News. Categories of things I expect to appear here will include:The URL for these items will be referenced in the News issue which relates to it. Currently I plan to leave the material here indefinitely.
Downloadable Materials
July 2021: Spanish language version of the Wilmer Pérez article on the descent of Angel Falls
May 2021: Large scale map of Natural Bridge Caverns by Orion Knox (7.2 mb PDF)
April 2021 Conservation: Extended version of Mike Mansur's article on homeade tools for speleothem repair, with many photos not used in our print version (3 mb PDF)
December 2020 issue: Riley Drake's full paper, with figures, Profiling the Microbial Communities of Brooks Cave in Pennington County, South Dakota (13 mb)
July 2020 issue: Figure 3 for Rick Lambert's article on Germany Valley Geology, a 1.2 GB PDF of a poster presented at the Geological Society of America Southeastern Section meeting in Blacksburg, Virginia in 2014.
June 2015 issue: Information flyer for the SEMO Grotto Post Camp after the NSS Convention in Missouri.
May 2013 issue: Detailed map of the OZ Quad from Lechuguilla Cave, New Mexico, to accompany the article on its exploration by Derek Bristol and John Lyles (7.5 mb PDF).
April 2013 issue: The sidebar of WNS references from page 13 with clickable links.
August 2012 issue: Labeled map of the Green Link-MIddle Earth Cave System, NZ, to accompany the article by Neil Silverwood in that issue (546 kb PDF).
You can visit the New Zealand Speleological Society's web site here: www.caves.org.nz
The long version of Ric Finch's article Honduras: Caving in Conglomerate. The short version was published in the January 2011 issue, also available here in full color.
Lauritzen's Critique of Trevor Faulkner's article "A New Speleogenetic Paradigm..." from September 2009 issue and Trevor Faulkner's reply PDF format (uploaded 4/3/2010)
July 2009 NSS News, full color example. PDF, 3.2 mb
Rabies Vaccine Strategies, by Danny A. Brass PDF format, 5.7 mb (uploaded 3/4/2009)
Includes two articles: Rabies Vaccine Strategies: Concepts of Rabies Prophylaxis for the Caving Community addresses aspects of rabies epidemiology in the United States, with emphasis on issues related to the potential risks of exposure to bat rabies among cavers as well as questions regarding the protective value of pre-exposure rabies vaccination for persons at increased risk of possible exposure. Rabies Serology and the RFFIT: Determination of a Rabies Titer and What it Really Means focuses on the nature of the rabies titer as a measure of protection against development of clinical disease
Cave Statutes, a model for state cave laws by Henry L. Welch, Word document format, 44 kb
