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Studying Ancient Climate Through Stalagmites, Stalactites, and Other Cave Formations
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- 1 0:00 Caves as Windows into Earth’s Past!
- 2 1:19 Studying ancient climate using cave formations
- 3 4:48 What climate parameters can we reconstruct?
- 4 5:31 How far back in time can we go?
- 5 7:30 Defining some important terms
- 6 8:07 What is karst?
- 7 8:33 What is the vadose zone?
- 8 9:15 What is hydrogeology?
- 9 9:35 What is biogeochemical cycling?
- 10 10:20 How & why we monitor the vadose zone
- 11 12:53 Recent development in this research!
- 12 16:05 Biggest discoveries from TX caves!
- 13 18:50 Great journey of a water molecule
- 14 20:28 Biggest challenges working in caves
- 15 22:20 Human impact on caves
- 16 24:50 Why TX caves are so hot
- 17 26:06 Field trip plan anyone can go!
- 18 29:00 Accessibility of tour caves
- 19 29:29 Dangerous “wild” caves
- 20 30:09 Wild animals in caves
- 21 31:09 Working in darkness
- 22 32:29 Find your local grotto!
- 23 33:49 Field trip collaboration & networking
- 24 35:36 Progressing cave research at the session
- 25 38:54 Unanswered questions in cave research
- 26 41:48 How students can get involved
