BCRA Science Symposium, Saturday 11 October 2025
The 2025 BCRA Cave & Karst Science Symposium and AGM will take place on
Saturday 11 October 2025 at the University of Bristol. Street address: School of
Geographical Sciences, University Road, Bristol, BS8 1SS.
The deadline for submitting an abstract for a talk is 15 Aug 2025 but
poster abstracts can be submitted up to the end of September.
This will be a live event but, hopefully, we will also be able to stream it. For this
annual event, information (including a timetable, abstracts, and directions to the venue) is
usually published a few weeks beforehand. Last-minute info will be posted to our
Facebook page. You
can also register to be placed on the event's maling list (see below), which is probably the best
way for you to stay informed.
The Event Timetable and Abstracts for the 2025 event are
now available
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Event Registration
For 2025 there is an event registration page at
eventbrite.com.
Registering will put you on the mailing list for further information, as well as allowing you to
express your interest in the Saturday evening dinner and the Sunday field trips.
Annual General Meeting
Our AGM will also take place on Saturday 11 October 2025 immediately prior to the
lunch break. See our AGM page for further information.
Enquiries
Sunday Field Trips
The day after the annual symposium, we usually organise a field meeting in the local area
or a workshop/classroom event. For 2025, please refer to the event's
second circular or sign-up for further info at
eventbrite.com.
Last-minute info will be posted to our
Facebook page.
For 2025 the field trips on offer are
- GB Cave with Dr Andy Farrant
- Pen Park Hole with Wayne Starsmore
- Fishmongers Swallet with Dr David Hardwick and Dr Adelle Bricking
- A walk around the Mendip Region, subject to demand
To sign up for for these trips, or to receive further information, please use the event
registration form referred to above.
Joining the Meeting Online
This meeting will be streamed via Zoom. You are advised to download and install the Zoom
program in advance, from Zoom
Client for Meetings. If you do not do this in advance you will be prompted to do it
when you join a meeting, and you could have to spend a few minutes installing it and working out
how to use it. It is also possible to attend a Zoom meeting via a web browser, but this is not
recommended unless you cannot get Zoom to install properly.
Join the BCRA Science Symposium and AGM on Saturday 11 October 2025
The Zoom link should be available on the day of the event. If not, please
check our Facebook
page for any last-minute announcements or instructions.
You can test your Zoom connection prior to
the meetings
- If you try to join the meeting before the host enables it, you could be left "in
limbo". Therefore, if your computer has not connected by, say, five minutes before the scheduled
start time, please log out and log back in again.
- If you cannot log in at all, please check our
Facebook page where
we will post any last-minute messages concerning, for example, any technical problems that we are
having.
- Please note that this event will not be recorded. You can only watch it live, via Zoom.
The reasons for not recording the Science Symposium are that a) it can be too time-consuming and
too difficult to obtain all the necessary copyright clearances; and b) some content may be subject
to embargoes or other academic constraints. If you are interested in obtaining the content of a
particular talk you should contact the speaker privately.
Symposium Abstracts and Programme
The 2025 Keynote Presentation will be From Caves to Conservation: the
making of a modern fauna in Britain with Professor Danielle Schreve.
The Event Timetable and Abstracts for the 2025 event are
now available
