The Karst Waters Institute (KWI) is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit institution whose mission is to improve the fundamental understanding of karst water systems through sound scientific research and the education of professionals and the public. The institute is governed by a Board of Directors and does not have or issue memberships.
Institute activities include the initiation, coordination, and conduct of research, the sponsorship of conferences and workshops, and occasional publication of scientific works. KWI supports these activities by acting as a coordinating agency for funding and personnel, but does not supply direct funding or grants to individual researchers.
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Current Awardee for the 2012 William L. Wilson Memorial Scholarship: Amanda Laskoskie
March 6, 2012
Amanda Laskoskie is the 2012 Wilson Scholarship recipient. She a geology M.S. student at West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV. She earned her B.S. in geology at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. Native to Sunbury, Pennsylvania, Amanda’s first cave experience was at the age of 24 in the Puerto Rican karst system where she contracted histoplasmosis, or Caver’s disease. Taking it as a sign of great things to come, she is now working on a method to better understand contaminate ...read full article
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New Conduit, Volume 11 Issue 2
January 9, 2012
(Download newsletter) December 2011
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NEW CONFERENCE: Carbon and Boundaries in Karst
July 11, 2011
A Karst Waters Institute Symposium on Carbon and Boundaries in Karst
January 7 to 11, 2013
Carlsbad, New Mexico
There is growing interest in the dynamics of both inorganic and organic carbon in karst systems, and especially in the flux of carbon and nutrients between surface and subsurface and between different components in the subsurface of karst.
This symposium will highlight ...read full article
