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Discovering life in inhospitable cave environments: new findings from Pooles Cavern

Caves are complex and inhospitable environments, but even in these dark, cold and nutrient limited parts of the world life can still...

What is the true impact of visitors on cave climate?

Pathways, railings, and lighting are just some of the many potential human modifications that can be seen in tourist caves such as...

Phosphorus in Caves: A new methodological development being pioneered at the BCSC

Alistair Morgan is a masters by research student at Lancaster University, his research is focussed on understanding how phosphorous...

Cave Science Symposium 2020

On Saturday 14th of November the British Cave Research Association hosted their first virtual science symposium. This meeting was hugely...

Pooles Cavern Shutdown: COVID-19

As of the 18th of March Pooles cavern has closed to the public due to the COVID-19 virus. This development will obviously limit the...

Nitrate partitioning: evidence from Poole's Cavern

Here Georgina Shaw a BSc Earth and Environmental Science student at Lancaster University tells us about her exciting dissertation project...

Installing New Loggers

So in mid January a small team of us descended to Pooles Cavern to set up the latest batch of radio logging devices supplied by TinyTag....

Welcome to the British Cave Science Centre!

Since 2017 we have been working hard to develop a UK site dedicated to the development and promotion of cave science. The aim was simple,...