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August 2013 Members Meeting Presentation – “Creek And Watershed Mapping Project” by Janet Sowers

Alan

The presentation will be about the creek & watershed mapping project I (Janet Sowers) have been involved in since 1993. We now have 15 maps published by the Oakland Museum. Peri and Bill Frantz helped with one of them. We have now stitched the maps together, upgraded them, and put them into Google Earth, which makes it fun to zoom around your watershed. You can see the present day drainage network with its creeks, engineered channels, and underground storm drains, or you can switch to the historical dataset and see the creeks as they were in the 1800s. The Santa Clara Valley map is called WOW (Watching Our Watersheds) and can be downloaded from the Santa Clara Valley Water District website at http://www.valleywater.org/WOW.aspx. It has been a fun project and I am excited to share it with the caving community.

Crack and Crevice Entrapment, do you know what to do? Presenter: Anmar Mirza, NCRC National Coordinator.

Alan

*Crack and Crevice Entrapment, do you know what to do? Presenter: Anmar
Mirza, NCRC National Coordinator.*

Join us for a webinar on Mar 25, 2015 at 8:00 PM CDT, 9:00 PM EDT, 7:00 PM
MDT, 6:00 PM PDT. Please check your time zone for correct start
time.

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Do you ever go into small, tight cracks, holes or crevices? If you are a
caver the answer is most assuredly YES!

What do you do when you or someone you are caving with gets stuck? Not
stuck like, “If I wiggle just right or relax then I can get out” kind of
stuck.
We are talking about the “We have tried everything and now don’t know what
to do” kind of stuck, the “Try not to panic ……should we call for help” kind
of stuck.

Do you know how to rescue yourself or someone else from an entrapment
situation? This introduction to extrication will better prepare you to
respond to this situation.

Anmar Mirza, NCRC (National Cave Rescue Commission) National Coordinator,
will be the presenter. Anmar has a vast knowledge on caving and cave rescue
related issues. .

Please arrive at least 10 minutes before the beginning of webinar.
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Alan

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