BCRA Science Symposium, Saturday 17 October 2026
The 2026 BCRA Cave & Karst Science Symposium and AGM will take place on
Saturday 17 October 2026.
It will be hosted by Dr Bethany Fox at the School of Science, Engineering and Environment,
University of Salford. It will be take place in room 0.11 of the Science, Engineering and
Environment (SEE) building on the Peel Park Campus.
Abstracts are welcome for posters or oral presentations on any topic of cave or karst-based
research. These should be submitted by email no later than 19 August, 2026, to the
Symposium organiser (see below). Please include all authors with their affiliations, an email
address for the primary author, and an abstract of up to 500 words (main text and references
only).
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 mailing list (see below), which is probably the best
way for you to stay informed.
Following the symposium, an informal evening meal will be arranged in Manchester City
Centre for those who are interested.
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Event Registration
For 2026 there is an
event
registration form
. 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 trip. The form does not commit you to attending the event, it just helps to give us a
sense of roughly how many to expect. Registration is also available on the day. A small donation
is requested to cover refreshments.
Annual General Meeting
Our AGM will also take place on Saturday 17 October 2026 immediately prior to the
lunch break. See our AGM page for further information.
Enquiries
- Symposium enquiries to Bethany Fox — see under Science Posts on our
Contact Page
- Field Trip enquiries toJohn Gunn — see under Honorary officers:
Chairman on our Contact Page
- AGM enquiries to Jo White — see under Honorary officers: Secretary
on our Contact Page
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 2026 there will be a field trip to the Manifold Valley area of the Peak
District. It will be led by Andy Farrant and John Gunn. For details of the field trip, please
contact John Gunn (see Enquiries, above) or sign up using the event registration form (see
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 17 October 2026
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 Event Timetable and Abstracts for the 2026 event will be available a few
weeks before the meeting.
