WEBSITES OF THE WORLD
KARST COMMUNITY

To get more informations about international scientific research in karst from the Internet, the visitors of this Website are highly recommended to visit also other karst websites.

KARST WATER INSTITUTE (KWI)

Based in USA, the KWI was founded in 1992. The goals of KWI are : (1) interdisciplinary karst research; (2) advance scientific knowledge by fostering state-of-art karst research; (3) solution of environment and land use problems in karst regions; (4) education.

KWI published Newsletter in 1992. In 1993, it changed the publication’s name as “THE KWI CONDUIT”. From 1999 Spring/Fall, KWI has established a new website and a new domain name(www.karstwaters.org)

Informations for KWI can be found at :
http://www.karstwaters.org/contactkwi.htm

INTEGRATED WEB INFORMATION ON KARST

The IAH Karst Commission(Heinz Hoetzl), the IGU Commission”Sustainable Development & Management of Karst Terrain”(John Gunn), and the UIS Commission on Karst Hydrogeology and Speleogenesis(Alexander Klimchouk) have established a joint Web Page to provide details of meetings, publications and other news directed to a wide karst community. The joint Karst Page can be accessed by using one of the following URLs :

http://www.karst-hydrogeology.de/

http://happy.carrier.kiev.ua/~klim/UIS_KHS/

CDIAC COMMUNICATIONS

This publication of Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center(CDIAC) is funded by the U.S.Department of Energy’s Environmental Sciences Dividion,Office of Biological and Environmental Research. It is published periodically by CDIAC,Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and provides up-to-date informations about carbon cycle in the world,such as data of atmospheric CO2, carbon emission, experimental and modelling on carbon cycle, paleovegetation and paleo-carbon cycle. The CDIAC Communications are available at:

http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/

INQUA CARBON COMMISSION AND IGCP404-TERRESTRIAL CARBON IN THE PAST 125Ka

http://inqua.nlh.no/comm/carbon.html

THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HYDROGEOLOGISTS(IAH)

http://www.iah.org

THE AMERICAN CAVE CONSERVATION ASSOCIATIOIN

http://www.cavern.org

THE UNION OF INTERNATIONAL SPELEOLOGY(UIS)

http://rubens.its.unimelb.edu.au/~pgm/uis/

THE CAVER’S MULTI-LINGUAL DICTIONARY

An International joint effort of the Caver’s Dictionary Working Group of the UIS. Now in seven languages, the dictionary can be found at:

http://rubens.its.unimelb.edu.au/~pgm/uisic/lexintro.html

KARST HYDROLOGY LIST SERVER

Doug Boyer,hydrologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, has set up a new list server for the discussion of karst hydrology and water quality issues. The list is maintained on a U.S. government server and is currently unmoderated in order to allow for quick free flow of information.
Subscriptions can be made by mailing to:

Listcaster@afsrc.ars.usda.gov

Including the following message: subscribe karsthydrology Questions and comments about the list should be sent to: