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International Journals of Cave and Karst Science
IJS Editorial Staff
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Paolo Forti Department Scienze della Terra Via Zamboni 67, I-40126 BOLOGNA (Italy) Ph.: +39 51 35 45 47, Fax: +39 51 35 45 22 e-mail: forti@geomin.unibo.it |
| EDITOR-IN-CHIEF |
Jo De Waele |
| EDITORIAL STAFF |
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Philippe Audra
PolytechNice - Sophia Antipolis Université de Nice - Sophia Antipolis 1645, route des Lucioles 06410 BIOT (France) Office : 33 + (0)4 92 38 85 50 Mobile: 33 + (0)6 79 65 42 44 Fax: 33 + (0)4 92 38 85 02 e-mail: audra@unice.fr |
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José Maria Calaforra Recursos Hídricos y Geología Ambiental Universidad de Almería, 04120 Almería (Spain) Ph.: +34 950015024 - Fax: +34 950015465 e-mail: jmcalaforra@ual.es |
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Russell Drysdale Discipline of Earth Sciences Room G22, Geology Building, University of Newcastle CALLAGHAN, New South Wales 2308 (Australia) Ph.: +61 2 49215749 - Fax: +61 2 49216925 e-mail: Russell.Drysdale@newcastle.edu.au |
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Franci Gabrovek Karst Research Institute ZRC SAZU Titov trg 2, 6230 POSTOJNA (Slovenia) Ph.: +386 5 700 19 33 - Fax: +386 5 700 19 99 e-mail: gabrovsek@zrc-sazu.si |
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David J. Lowe British Geological Survey Keyworth Notts NG12 5GG (United Kingdom) Ph.: 0115 9363309 e-mail: djlo@bgs.ac.uk |
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Arthur N. Palmer Department of Earth Sciences, State University of New York Oneonta, NY 13820-4015 (USA) Ph.: +1 607 432 6024 - Fax: +1 607 436 3547 e-mail: palmeran@oneonta.edu |
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Leonardo Piccini Department of Geology, University of Firenze Via La Pira 4, 50121 FIRENZE (Italy) Ph.: +39 055 275 75 22 - Fax: +39 055 21 86 28 e-mail: piccini@geo.unifi.it |
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Kyung Sik Woo Department of Geology Kangwon National University Chuncheon, Kangwondo, 200-701 (Korea) e-mail: wooks@kangwon.ac.kr |
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Eleonora Trajano Departamento de Zoologia Instituto de Biocięncias, Universidade de Săo Paolo C.P. 11461, 05422-9970 SĂO PAULO (Brasil) Ph.: +55 11 30917620 - Fax: +55 11 30917802 e-mail: etrajano@usp.br |
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Zaihua Liu |
| INTERNATIONAL EDITORIAL BOARD |
B. Andreo ( Spain ) - R. Bernasconi (Switzerland) - P. Bosak (Czech Rep.) - E. Burri (Italy) |
Editorial Staff Biographies
| Paolo Forti . . . | |
| Full professor of Geomorphology at the University of Bologna (Italy). His scientific activity is testified by over 350 papers, mainly devoted to karst geomorphology, speleogenesis and karst hydrogeology. His main field of research is the morphological and mineralogical study of speleothems with the purpose of reconstructing paleo-seismicity, seismotectonics, speleogenetic evolution, paleo-climate and paleo-environment in karst (mainly gypsum) areas. Director of the Italian Institute of Speleology since 1975, responsible of the Karst Section of the Italian Group of "Physical Geography and Geomorphology" since 1984, former president of the Italian Speleological Society (1987-1993), former President of the International Union of Speleology (1993-1997). |  |
| Jo De Waele . . . | |
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M.Sc in Geology in 1990 at the University of Ghent (Belgium), PhD in Mineral Prospection at the University of Cagliari in 1995. Associate Professor in Geography and Cartography at the Department of Earth Sciences and Environmental Geology of the University of Bologna Alma Mater. Environmental geology, geomorphology, hydrogeology and palaeoclimate studies in karst areas are his main research domains. The results of these researches have been published in more than 70 scientific papers since 1993. |
| Philippe Audra . . . | |
Maître de conferences at the Department of geography of the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis (France). Doctor in geography, he finished his PhD on Alpine Karst at the University of Grenoble in 1993. He was president of the French Association of Karst Scientists (AFK) and is a full member of the Commission Board of Karst hydrogeology and Speleogenesis of the International Union of Speleology (UIS). He's also member of the e ditorial boards of several international reviews such as Karstologia (France), Speleogenesis-the Virtual Scientific Journal (UIS), Die Höhle (Austria), Philippines Journal of Geography and Alpine Karst (USA). His main research fields are karst geomorphology, palaeogeography, speleogenesis, GIS and land management, published in about 90 scientific papers. |
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| José Maria Calaforra . . . | |
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Titular Professor of Geodynamics at the University of Almeria ( Spain ). He has been president of the Spanish Speleological and Karst Science Society (Sedeck) since 1998. After completing his PhD in Geological Sciences he began his research work in the Research Group of Water Resources and Environmental Geology, focussing on geomorphological and hydrogeological karst topics. He is author of more than 150 papers and several books concerning karst and cave speleogenesis. One of the most applied avenues of his current research involves the study of methods for monitoring and control of microclimate in natural caves and its application in the sustainable management of show caves. |
| Russell Drysdale . . . | |
| Russell Drysdale completed his PhD in 1995 at the University of New South Wales (Australia), where he studied the geomorphology, hydrochemistry and Quaternary history of tufa deposition in the Barkly karst (tropical northern Australia). In 1996, he moved into a teaching position at the University of Newcastle and is now Lecturer in Earth Sciences. His current research interests focus on palaeoclimatology, particularly 'process studies', which investigate the way in which climate information is transmitted to speleothems via cave percolation waters. He is currently working on several speleothem-palaeoclimate projects: a long record of Western Mediterranean-North Atlantic climate change from the Alpi Apuane (Italy); the history of the El Nino-Southern Oscillation from Holocene speleothems at Wombeyan and Cliefden karst (NSW, Australia); and monsoon/Indian Ocean Dipole history at Christmas Island. He runs a speleothem fluorescence laboratory at Newcastle, and is a member of the American Geophysical Union and the Australasian Quaternary Association. |  |
| Franci Gabrovšek . . . | |
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Degree in Physics at the University in Ljubljana, Slovenia in 1995, PhD at the Department of physics of the University of Bremen, Germany, 2000. Researcher at the Karst Research Institute of SASA in Postojna, Slovenia. His main research includes process modelling of speleogenesis and other karst processes. He is involved in the exploration and study of Alpine cave systems in Slovenia. He is an author of more than 50 papers since 1996, author and co-author of two books on karst modelling and co-editor of Acta Carsologica. |
| David J. Lowe . . . | |
Field geologist and geoscientific data project manager, British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham , UK . Geology BSc from Birmingham University and PhD on speleogenesis from Manchester Metropolitan University . Early interests in UK and overseas cave exploration (including expeditions to Crete , the Canadian Rocky Mountains, and the Kingdom of Tonga ) have largely given way to ongoing research interests in the relationship between geology (especially stratigraphy) and speleogenesis, and related issues. Author of many geological maps, scientific papers and book contributions on widely ranging geological and karstological topics. Joint Editor of Cave and Karst Science, and Editorial Board member for Speleogenesis and Evolution of Karst Aquifers, Nae jame , Theoretical and Applied Karstology , and Materials and Geoenvironment . Visiting Research Fellow at the Limestone Research Group, University of Huddersfield , UK ; Research Associate of the Karst Research Institute, Postojna , Slovenia ; Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society; Fellow of the Geological Society of London ; Chartered Geologist. |
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| Arthur N. Palmer . . . | |
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Director of the Water Resources program at the State University of New York, Oneonta, NY, and S.U.N.Y. Distinguished Teaching Professor of hydrology, geochemistry, and geophysics. Ph.D. in hydrogeology from Indiana University. He also teaches a summer field course on Karst Geology for Western Kentucky University at Mammoth Cave National Park. He is an honorary member, and Science Award recipient, of the National Speleological Society, and has received the Kirk Bryan Award from the Geological Society of America for his studies of cave origin. He is the author of several books and about 100 journal articles on caves and karst. |
| Leonardo Piccini . . . | |
| M.Sc in Geology in 1987, Earth Science PhD in 1995, at present he is full researcher at the Department of Earth Science at the University of Florence (Italy), where he teaches Photogeology and Hydrogeology. More than 90 scientific papers, published since 1989, testify his scientific work, the main topics of which are: geomorphology and hydrology of karst areas, paleoclimate from cave fills and glaciology. |
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| Kyung Sik Woo . . . | |
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Professor of Geology at Kangwon National University and Director of the Cave Research Institute of Korea . Speleogenesis and palaeoclimate studies in Korean limestone caves and lava tubes are his main research interests, in addition to carbonate sedimentology and paleoceanography. He's the vice president of the Korean Society of Cave Environmental Science. |
| Eleonora Trajano . . . | |
| Professor at the Departamento de Zoologia of the Instituto de Biocięncias da Universidade de Săo Paulo (Brasil) since 1981, teaching courses on Zoology of Vertebrates and Subterranean Biology. Master dissertation (1981) on cave bats and PhD thesis (1987) on cave fish. Dedicating during the past 25 years to biospeleological studies including subterranean biodiversity and ecology, behaviour, morphology, taxonomy and evolution of cave taxa, with emphasis on fishes. |  |
| Zaihua Liu . . . | |
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Research professor of Environmental Geochemsitry at the Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences and at the Institute of Karst Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences. M.Sc in Hydrogeochemistry in 1988 at the Chinese University of Geosciences, PhD in Karst Kinetics at the Bremen University of Germany in 1996. He has published over 100 papers, mainly devoted to the kinetics of karst processes, the global carbon cycle related to the karst processes, karst hydrobiogeochemistry related to LUCC (land use and land cover change) and global warming, paleoclimate and paleoenvironmental reconstruction with karst records, especially with tufa/travertine deposits on the ground surface. Co-leader of the IAH commission on Groundwater and Climate Change, Vice director of the Karst Dynamics Key Laboratory of Ministry of Land and Resources of China, Editor-in-Chief of Carsologica Sinica (in Chinese) since 2004. |