Events and Meetings

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BCRA organises occasional field meetings and seminars as well as an annual Cave Science symposium. Some of our field meetings are organised by our Special interest Groups, whilst others are aimed at a more general audience. They are all friendly events at which academics, students and interested amateur cave scientists attend and give presentations. The annual Cave Science Symposium is usually followed by a one-day field meeting in the local area.

This page is just a summary of some of our forthcoming events. Our planned events are also listed on our Google Calendar. More detailed information is posted to our News Forum and to our Facebook page.

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Events in 2025

#1 — Sat 27 Sept 2025  

Hidden Earth 2025

Time: Sat 27-Sept 2025, weekend event.

See Hidden Earth


#2 — Sat 11 Oct 2025   

Science symposium and AGM, 2025

With: Prof. David Richards. University of Bristol. Email: David.Richards...
Time: Sat 11-Oct 2025, 09:30 to 17:00 BST.

See our Symposium page

Illustration (2018 science symposium) by Dominika Wroblewska


#3 — Sun 12 Oct 2025   

Science symposium Field Trips, 2025

With: Prof. David Richards. University of Bristol. Email: David.Richards...
Time: Sun 12-Oct 2025, all day.

See our Symposium page

Limestone pavement above Malham Cove (2016 BCRA field meeting), by Laik Parhoe

For a list of this year's field trips, please visit our Symposium page. That will take you to an event registration page where you can sign up for further information.

#4 — Sat 18 Oct 2025  

CREG Field Meeting, Yorkshire Dales

With: Mike Bedford (organiser)
Time: Sat 18-Oct 2025, weekend event.

Contact Mike Bedford for further details

CREG, the BCRA Cave Radio and Electronics Group, is holding a field meeting in the Yorkshire Dales over the weekend of 18/19 October 2025. We already have an interesting programme of demonstrations and talks lined up, but if you want to bring something along there will be opportunity for you to carry out tests or give a demonstration, and possibly to give a talk.

Activities already lined up include demonstrations and talks on the new Nicola 4 cave radio and an along-passage system based on LoRa and using repeaters. Both these are intended primarily for rescue use. There will also be a demonstration and talk about the use of LoRa above ground for data logging applications. In addition, there will be a talk about a flood monitoring project in South Wales, and we plan to hold two discussions sessions, one about a possible audio frequency text-based cave radio, and the other addressing the question of whether loop antennas are staging a comeback. The provisional programme has in-cave demonstrations on the Saturday and talks / discussion sessions on the Sunday.

Some accommodation has been reserved at the YSS caving hut in Helwith Bridge, for the Friday and Saturday nights but, unless you have already requested one of those places, you'll have to contact YSS to book your place. It would also be useful to let CREG know if you plan to join us, especially if you'd like to reserve a slot in the programme. Contact Mike Bedford for further information.

We'll meet for breakfast at 09:00 on Saturday 18 October at Inglesport in Ingleton before going to the cave we'll be using for the practical sessions. The talks and discussion workshops will start at 10:00 on Sunday 19 October at the YSS. You might also like to meet up with us on the Friday and Saturday evenings at the Helwith Bridge Hotel pub, which is adjacent to the YSS.

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