Presenters and invited contributors from the 2025 NCKMS must submit all content for the official printed proceedings by Sunday, May 3, 2026. Submissions (and all attachments) must be sent to: proceedings@nckms.org
The official proceedings will be made available to university libraries, research institutes, government agencies, academics, students, and the general public. We will be printing in full color, so feel free to include a reasonable number of images if they compliment your research. For space considerations, our editors reserve the right to omit images if you go overboard!
Official Format
We require that all submissions follow a consistent format for publication. For your convenience, you may download an MS-Word template by clicking HERE.
We very much prefer that you send your submissions in MS-Word (DocX) format, but we will try to accomodate other formats if absolutely necessary. All images and figures should be embedded in your document _and_ attached to your email as individual files. Please see the template example for additional instructions.
A reference PDF example is available HERE.
Your submission deadline is Sunday, May 3, 2026!
Proceedings Publication
Some of you have already ordered printed copies in advance. If you did not select that option when registering for the symposium, we will be taking orders up until Friday, May 29. Order forms will be made available on this page in the next few days. Check back for a link to our order form.
Registration for the 2025 symposium is now open! Early registration discounts end at midnight on September 15. After that, registration packages increase by $50.
After registering, be sure to book your hotel room soon. Our hotel discounts will expire in mid-September. See our host hotel page for more details.
In July of 1986, Life magazine dubbed Nevada's Highway 50 the "Loneliest Road in America." The article claimed there were "no points of interest" along the route and "warned" readers not to risk traveling it unless they were confident of their survival skills. However, Nevada adventurers knew better then - and still do. Sure, a road doesn't get much more wide-open than Highway 50. But that's exactly why we dig it!
Lehman Caves attracts tens of thousands of visitors to eastern Nevada yearly, a trend that began not long after their discovery in the late 1880s. For over 60 years, Lehman Caves National Monument protected these underground wonders, with their unique geology and ecology. And today, they remain protected as part of Great Basin National Park.
The 2016 NSS 75th anniversary convention in Ely, Nevada will include tours of this beautiful cave.
