Year Two, 2006

The primary meeting for the year will be in Malaga, Spain within the framework of the International Congress on Groundwater in Mediterranean Countries, April 24-28, with field excursions in the vicinity of Malaga as well as the Seville and Granada Provinces. This should provide an excellent opportunity for Project participants to discuss strategies for the protection of karst water resources with a backdrop of the European efforts to develop mapping schemes to identify intrinsic vulnerability of water supplies.

At a minimum there will be Working Group meetings at the Centre of Hydrogeology, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, and at the annual Geological Society of America meeting that will be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 22-25 October with karst technical sessions, field excursions, and a working group meeting of the karst IGCP Project.

Project participants beginning at the end of year two will be strongly encouraged to prepare and submit papers from Project work, as appropriate, in high-quality, international peer-review journals. We will begin development of a program to assist prospective authors with the preparation of papers in high-quality journals, including, for example, fine-tuning English language grammar. A major accomplishment anticipated during the year is publication of a special issue of the Journal of Cave and Karst Studies dedicated to the Karst of Vietnam.

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