Presenters are strongly encouraged to focus on topics related to the management of caves or karst which may be used to inform resource managers on current practices and methods. Pure research sessions and posters should include a management subtext.
Abstract Submissions Are Open!
Please send your abstracts with up to 3 attached images to abstracts@nckms.org. For questions, please contact Dr. Pat Kambesis of Western Kentucky University and Kirsten Bahr by sending an email to that same address.
If you can include a face picture for the primary presenter and a very brief bio, that would be great! We'd like to post all session topics on this website in advance of the symposium.
Abstract Submissions Close
Abstract submissions will close at midnight on Friday night, September 5, 2025.
Review & Editing
Accepted presenters will be notified soon after submission. Final abstracts must be locked for publication by early-September.
Proceedings Publication
All presenters are reminded that full texts of your sessions must be available at or immediately after the symposium. Official proceedings will be published following the symposium.
The official event schedule for the 2025 NCKMS has now been updated. Please check our schedule page or download a PDF to your mobile device.
Sitting at Nevada's eastern edge of the "Loneliest Road in America," Ely is a remote mountain town where history, art and outdoor adventure thrive. Ely was founded in the 1870s as a stagecoach stop and trading post called Murray Station, but it would become one of the country's major copper mining regions.
The Nevada Northern Railway arrived in 1906. Now, this well preserved short-line railway draws visitors from all over the world to ride on its queens of steam and historic diesel engines.
Nevada is the most mountainous state in the country, with over 300 individual mountain ranges and 42 named summits over 11,000 feet!
