Cave Research Foundation Annual Report - 2001-2003 1 Cave Research Foundation Annual Report - 2001-2003 2 Cave Research Foundation Annual Report - 2001-2003 Annual Reports 2001-2003 Cave Research Foundation 177 Hamilton Valley Road Cave City, Kentucky 42127 Cave Research Foundation Cave Research 3 Cave Research Foundation Annual Report - 2001-2003 The Cave Research Foundation (CRF) is a private non-profit organization incorporated in 1957 under the laws of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Its purpose is to: Facilitate research, management, and interpretation of caves and karst resources Form partnerships to study, protect and preserve cave resources and karst areas Promote the long-term conservation of caves and karst resources Editors: Patricia Kambesis Elizabeth Winkler Hoffman Environmental Research Institute 238 Tyler Court Western Kentucky University Smiths Groves, Kentucky 42171 1906 College Heights Blvd. Bowling Green, Kentucky 42101 Hawkins River at the Amos Hawkins Formation, Mammoth Cave Cover layout and photo: Gary Berdeaux Cave Research Foundation 2001-2003 Annual Report c by the Cave Research Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to reproduce this material for scientific and educational use only. For information contact CRF, 177 Hamilton Valley Road, Cave City, KY 42127-45424 ISBN 978-0-939748-59-4 Published by Cave Books 4700 Amberwood Drive Dayton, Ohio 45424 4 Cave Research Foundation Annual Report - 2001-2003 Table of Contents Cave Research Foundation Activities 2001 2001 Highlights ............................................................................................................................................................... 9 Hamilton Valley Research Station Update .................................................................................................................... 12 Operation Area Reports ................................................................................................................................................ 15 Lava Beds National Monument Report .................................................................................................................... 15 Eastern Operations Accomplishments...................................................................................................................... 15 Ozarks Operation Area.............................................................................................................................................. 17 Sequoia and Kings Canyon and Mineral King Operation Area .............................................................................. 22 Southwest Operation Area ....................................................................................................................................... 23 Archeology CRF Archeological Project Update, 1995-2001 .......................................................................................................... 24 The Yalahau Archaeological Cave Survey................................................................................................................ 26 Biology Biological Inventory in the Missouri Ozarks ............................................................................................................ 29 Cartography/GIS Cartography at Lilburn Cave, CA 1998-2001 ............................................................................................................. 32 Development and Testing of Three Componentsof the Process of Transferring Digital Cave Survey Data from the Cave Research Foundationto Mammoth Cave National Park............................ 36 Geoscience Updated Stratigraphic Section in Mammoth Cave National Park ............................................................................. 45 Sedimentology of the Redwood Canyon Karst ........................................................................................................ 48 Transport and storage of trace metals in a karst aquifer:An example from Fort Campbell, Kentucky ................................................................................................................................. 50 Temporal Links Between Climate and Hydrology: .................................................................................................... 54 Insights from Central Texas Cave Deposits and Groundwater ................................................................................. 54 Roppel Cave: Activities of The Central Kentucky Karst Coalition ............................................................................... 60 Cave Books Report 2001 ............................................................................................................................................... 62 Cave Research Foundation Activities 2002 2002 Highlights ............................................................................................................................................................. 65 The 2002 Cave Research Foundation Karst Fellowship Competition ........................................................................... 67 Operation Area Reports Ozarks Operation .Cave Inventory, Mapping and Management .............................................................................. 72 Eastern Operations Accomplishments...................................................................................................................... 72 Southwest Operation: Guadalupe Escarpment & Fort Stanton Range, Carlsbad Caverns National Park (CCNP) .................................................................................................................. 75 5 Cave Research Foundation Annual Report - 2001-2003 Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks ............................................................................................................. 76 Lava Beds Operation Area........................................................................................................................................ 78 Archeology CRF Archeological Project Update, 2001-2002 .......................................................................................................... 80 Biology Foraging Ecology of The Cave Cricket Hadenoecus subterraneus: Effects of Climate, Ontogeny, and Predation .......................................................................................................................................... 82 Baseline Mapping and Biological Inventory of Caves on the Mark Twain National Forest, Missouri .................................................................................................................... 83 Cartography Redwood Canyon Cartography Summary ................................................................................................................ 86 Geoscience Records of Climate Change in Central North America From dD variations in speleothm fluid inclusions ............... 87 Cave Research Foundation Activities 2003 2003 Highlights ............................................................................................................................................................ 95 Hamilton Valley Land Management Symposium........................................................................................................... 99 Hamilton Valley Research Station ................................................................................................................................. 99 History of the Cave Research Foundation and Hamilton Valley ................................................................................. 101 Hamilton Valley Cultural Resource Management: What’s the Point? ......................................................................... 105 Hamilton Valley Research Station Report .................................................................................................................. 107 Biology Systematics Of The North American Subterranean Amphipod Genus Bactrurus (Crangonyctidae) ...................... 110 Brief Overview of Coleopteran Fauna at Hamilton Valley ....................................................................................... 112 Ecology The Ecological Foundation for Prescribed Fire in the Mammoth Cave Area with Special Reference to Hamilton Valley ......................................................................................... 114 Geoscience Microsampling and Isotopic Analysis of Adjacent Fluorescent/Non-Fluorescent Band Couplets in a Midwestern Speleothem..................................................................................................... 122 Sedimentology of the Redwood Canyon Karst, Kings Canyon National Park ............................. 124 International Program The China Karst Environemt Project.......................................................................................... 125 6 Cave Research Foundation Annual Report - 2001-2003 Cave Research Foundation Activities 2001 7 Cave Research Foundation Annual Report - 2001-2003 Cave Research Foundation Directors 2001 Patricia Kambesis Rick Toomey President Fellowships & Grants Program Paul Cannaley Mick Sutton Treasurer Dick Maxey Peter Bosted Secretary Chuck Pease International Projects Phil DiBlasi National Personnel Officer Chris Groves Operation Area Managers Eastern Operation Area: Dave West Lava Beds Area: Janet Sowers Ozark Operation Area: Scott House Southwest Operation Area: Barbe Barker Sequoia and Kings Canyon/Mineral King Operation Area: John C. Tinsley Hamilton Valley Director: