Project Underground workshop

The New River Valley Master Naturalist Chapter is offering a Project Underground workshop that will be of interest to Geoscience Education majors and others who may need ideas for leading Education and Public Outreach events around caves and karst.  They have graciously agreed to let me (Llyn Sharp) invite others to this well-respected training program, sponsored by the National Speleological Society, et.al.  By hosting this in the Museum of Geosciences we will also be able to show historic specimens of cave formations--speleothems--that can no longer be collected legally.

The workshop will be held from 7:00-9:30 pm on BOTH Wednesday, March 26th and Thursday, March 27th in the Museum of Geosciences in 2062 Derring Hall at Virginia Tech. Limited to 20, preregistration required.  No parking pass is needed after 5:00 pm.

Instructors will include Carol Zokaites (Virginia DCR and National Coordinator of Project Underground), Karen Powers (Associate Professor of Biology, Radford University), Llyn Sharp (VT Museum of Geosciences) and Bill Sydor (NRV-VMN Training Committee).

The first session will be on Karst Geology and Hydrology, and, the second on Cave Life.  The cost for the will be $10.00 to cover the cost of the Project Underground Natural Resource Education Guide that you will receive upon completion of the workshop.  Attendance at both sessions is required  to receive a certificate of completion and the guidebook.

For information about Project Underground, see:

http://karsteducation.org/

The workshop will be limited to twenty participants.  To attend this workshop, please register by contacting Bill Sydor <bill.sydor@vt.edu >.