Basic Research Program

Research into the principles of how caves, karst, and their components are created, changed, organized, and distributed. It essentially defines how caves and karst work.

Roswell Artesian Basin

• Multi-tracer investigation of groundwater residence time in a karstic aquifer:
  Bitter Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico, USA

World's Longest Cave Deposit

• The Snowy River formation in Fort Stanton Cave, New Mexico:
  Results from Radiometric Dating and Hydrologic Observations of the World’s Longest Speleothem