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The Karst Interest Group/HydroDays Workshop will be held from April 26 through April 29, 2011, in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and the surrounding karst areas of the southern Ozarks. We invite karst researchers, educators, students, policy makers, cavers, and karst lovers of all persuasions to join us, and we encourage you to take part in all of the activities that your schedule will permit. Please peruse this web site and register so that we will have adequate food, drink, and transportation spaces for all attendees. Lodging options, field trip registration, maps, deadlines, and relevant information are provided on the website to plan for a successful trip. If you have questions, don’t hesitate to contact Lisa Milligan at 479-575-3355 for personal attention to your query.
The nearest airport serving Fayetteville is Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA), and it is served by American, Allegiant, Continental, Delta, U.S. Airways Express, and United. The airport is about 20 minutes northwest of Fayetteville, and shuttle service is provided by xxx at a cost of $45/per one-way trip. Alternative airports are Tulsa (TUL), about 100 miles to the west, Springfield, Missouri, about 120 miles to the northeast, and Little Rock, about 150 miles to the southeast.
Thanks to our sponsors and volunteers, there will be no registration fee for our workshop; there will be a charge for canoe and camping gear rental. We do require, however, that all attendees register on this website so that we can accurately manage arrangements, including food and travel. Please use the Registration heading in the banner across the top of this page, and fill in all questions. If you are going on the float trip on the Buffalo National River, please forward $30/person to Lisa (mailing address below) to guarantee that you will have a boat. If you need camping gear and are flying to this meeting, please fill out that section of the registration form, and include this cost to Lisa. Her address is:
Ms. Lisa Milligan
Department of Geosciences
113 Ozark Hall
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701
facilities available in cabins; electricity
showers, but flush toilet
Other motel options are Red Roof Inn, Super 8, Motel 6, Inn at Carnall Hall (U of A campus)
Thursday night we will camp on the Buffalo National River, and those staying will have no charge for camping fees, but you may want to rent tents and sleeping bags if you are flying into Fayetteville, and do not want to pay the extra travel cost for checking camping gear on your flights. Please note your desire to camp at SEW on your Registration.
We are honored to have Art and Peggy Palmer, who will be our keynote speakers and share their overview of karst research in the U.S. and the world. Our schedule of presentations on Tuesday and Wednesday is accessible under the Program heading in the banner across the top of this page, and promises to be an enlightening and state-of-the-science review . A poster session is scheduled for Tuesday afternoon from 4:00 to 6:00 pm. The venue for this part of the workshop is the Arkansas Student Union.
Mark Hudson and Kenzie Turner of the USGS have been mapping at a 1:24,000 scale in the southern Ozark region for more than ten years, and together with Chuck Bitting of the National Park Service (NPS), who focuses on karst and resource management, they have put together an outstanding field trip that reflects the dominant processes and controls that affect the karst of this beautiful area. The Buffalo National River is the first national river in the NPS, and it is characterized by high bluffs and vertical karst shafts, some of which have some of the greatest vertical relief in the midcontinent area between the Appalachians and the Rockies.
From our campground, we will go to the put-in point at the Ponca low-water bridge. We will float from here to Kyles Landing, expanding on our karst knowledge as we explore the surface-water/ground-water interaction and note features from river level. If you plan to take part in this float, please note this on Registration, and send your $30/person nonrefundable deposit to Lisa at the address on the registration form.
Sponsored by:
1/21-Site Upload
3/18 Camera Ready Papers & abstracts must be sumitted to Eve Kuniansky to be included in the proceeding publication
4/26-Technical Workshop & Presentation of poster sessions
4/27 Pasta Sessions
4/27 Banquet & research findings Savoy Experimental Watershed
4/28 Field Trip - Karst of the Southern Ozarks
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Department of Geosciences
