Non sono sicuro che Call for Papers significhi “comunicato stampa”, ma questo mi sembra il primo vero comunicato ufficiale per il Baltic Speleological Congress 2007 che si svolgerà a Gotland, in Svezia, dal 13 al 15 August 2007.
Short introduction
Focus of the congress is a comprehensive range of talks about topics in Fennoscandic-Baltic caves and caving.
Baltic Speleological Federation is organized for the first time in 2007 by the Swedish Speleological Federation in collaboration with FSUE, UIS and ISCA.
Topics
We are looking for contributions about the following topics. Contributions about other topics may
be submitted, but will only be considered in special cases.
Caves and the Quaternary landscape development:
How do we distinguish between postglacial caves, pre-Weichselian caves and pre-Quaternary caves? What does that imply with respect to causation processes. What kind of sediments do we find in the Scandinavian caves? Some Swedish bedrock caves have been tied to deglacial earthquakes – is this a general origin of postgacial caves? What processes made the pre-Weichselian caves survive the last Ice Age?
Cave conservation:
What are the experiences in our region with respect to cave management and conservation? What are the attitudes and politics towards non-speleological use of caves, like multisport competetitions? What are the conservation rules and practice in our countries?
Culture, history and archaeology:
Do we have examples of historical and prehistorical use of caves in our countries? Are there any preference for psuedokarst caves over true karst caves with respect to prehistoric use? What are the prospects of detecting interstadial or interglacial human occupation in our region? Are there legends where specific caves are involved?
Caves and climate:
What are the evidence of climatic change from our caves, like speleothem records, etc? How far back in time can we document climatic change from our cave deposits? Is the karst record unique with respect to dating and time resolution? What are the NS differences in climate records?
Submitting Contributions
Submission of contributions is done via e-mail, abstracts@speleo.se
We are also accepting artistic submissions, especially visualizations or other representations of some aspect.
Submission Guidelines
• Submission of abstracts is open to all congress participants.
• Please submit your title/profession, full name, address and department (if applicable).
• Your title may not exceed 10 words.
• All submissions must include a title and an abstract of 100 to 300 words (anything exceeding 300 words will not be accepted).
• The abstracts should be provided as plain text, and not as file attachments.
• Abstract submissions and presentations must be in English.
• Do not write in all CAPITAL LETTERS. The information you enter is used for publication on
the Web site, in the agenda, and on CD-ROM.
• Please indicate if you will present your paper as a poster in your abstract submission.
Contributions are selected based on their content by the scientific committee. Please understand that we cannot accept all contributions, depending on the number and quality of the submissions. We will favor submissions which fall under one of the aforementioned topics.
We require that all presenters register for the congress in which they wish to participate. Acceptance as a presenter does not register you for the congress, and registration fees are required. Registration begins January 15th, 2007.
All users who give paper presentations at the congress can have them published on the Web and in the congress proceedings on CD–ROM.
Overhead projectors, LCD projectors and laptops will be provided. Please bring your presentation
on a CD or USB-memory. It is also possible to use your own laptop, but appropriate cables and
adapters for LCD projectors may not be available. Please send all queries and requests to:
bsc@speleo.se
We will inform presenters of their time slot(s) as soon as the program is set.
Poster sessions will be offered during the congress.
Remuneration
The Baltic Speleological Congress is organized by volunteers and is mostly funded by sponsors. We ask you to understand that we will not be able to reimburse you for your expenses.
Social Event
We are planning to hold a social event on the evening of the 12th of August and kindly invite all
speakers to attend.
Important Dates and Contacts
Date Activity
December 1st, 2006 Call for Papers starts
January 15th, 2007 Registration opens
May 1st, 2007 End of the Call for Papers. All contributions need to be
submitted by this date in order to qualify.
May 15th, 2007 Notification of acceptance of all contributions
May 31st, 2007 Final acceptance. We ask all invited speakers to give their
final acceptance by this date.
August 13th, 2007 First day of Baltic Speleological Congress.
Further information can be found on the web under
http://www.speleo.se/bsc
Please send questions about the Call for Papers via email to: abstracts@speleo.se
Contact the organising committee via email: bsc@speleo.se
Postal address:
Baltic Speleological Congress 2007
Sveriges Speleologförbund
Box 16013
720 16 Västerås, Sweden
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