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NSS: 31706 Fellow

Organizational Affiliations (past):

Central Indian Grotto Indiana Karst Conservancy West Virginia University Student Grotto West Virginia Speleological Survey Tucker County Survey West Virginia University Student Grotto Monroe County Cavers (a grotto of the NSS)

Organizational Affiliations (present):

Monroe County Cave Survey West Virginia Association for Cave Studies West Virginia Cave Conservancy West Virginia Speleological Survey Monroe County Survey Young Timers Reunion

Positions held:

West Virginia University Student Grotto President from 1995 to 1996 President from 2000 to 2002 The West Virginia Caver Contributor of articles and maps since 1995 Monroe County Cavers President from 1997 to 1999 Newsletter editor from 1998 to 2002 (Founder of the Monroe County Mudslide) Tucker County Survey Assistant Coordinator from 1994 to 1997 Monroe County Survey Project Coordinator from 1997 to present Newsletter Editor from 2002 to present (Founder of The Mudslide) West Virginia Cave Conservancy Director from 1999 to present President from 2003 to present Newsletter Editor from 1999 to present Fundraising committee chair from 1999 to present West Virginia Association for Cave Studies Fieldwork committee chair from 2001 to present Research committee chair from 2001 to present Young Timers Reunion One of the founders Has been a principle organizer since its beginning in 1997 NSSCon2000 (the 2000 NSS Convention in Elkins, West Virginia) In charge of landowner relations In charge of providing directions and advice to the various caving trips Rescue Practices (NCRC-ER BCRO and OCR) Laurel Caverns, Pennsylvania Burchett's Cave, Kentucky Lee Cave, New Jersey Organ Cave, WV Bowden Cave, WV

Rescues:

Barberry Cave in 1995 Hellhole in 1997 Hurricane Ridge Cave in 1999 (Incident command) Organ Cave in 1999 Maxwelton Sink Cave (new entrance) in 2002 (Incident command)

Caves Mapped and Dig Projects on which I’ve helped:

Indiana: Black Cave Bear Cave Kool Spring Cave Tucker County, WV: Suicide Sump Cave (4413 feet long) Waterworld (4000 feet long) Bonner Cave (4800 feet long) Bray-Don't-Fit-Cave (100 feet long) Alien Cave (35 feet long) Sleeping Deer Cave (100 feet long) Greenbrier County, WV: Rapps Cave (1.39 miles long) Maxwelton Sink Cave (new entrance dig) Monroe County, WV: Hurricane Ridge Cave (dig; 2.42 miles long) Union Cave (dig; 4.57 miles) Old Lebanon Cave (3757 feet) Mud River Cave (dig) Kessel Cave (dig) Hunt Cave (about 2 miles long) Grace #1 cave (406.8 feet long) Grace #2 cave (443.0 feet long) Dickson Saltpeter Cave (600 feet long) This Might Be Owens Cave Brushpile Cave (460.1 feet long) Moores Cave (5435.5 feet long) Little Big Hole Cave (1.93 miles long) Lane Lea Cave (2081 feet long) Izod Cave (173 feet) Turkey Creek Insurgence Cave (274 feet) Numerous dye traces, as well as other digs and surveys Master’s Thesis (WVU Geology and Geography): The Pirate of Monroe: A Geophysical, Hydrological, and Structural Study of the Monitor Lineament in Monroe County, WV