Irish Cave Exploration

Prevention and treatment of injuries from cave exploration in Hawai'i.

Cave exploration is a popular activity in the United States that can be challenging, thrilling, and dangerous. In addition to common risks associated with caves on the mainland, caves in Hawai'i may be filled with tidal water, or contain large pools of water that are accessible only through underwater entrances. This paper will discuss common injuries in caves on the mainland United States, as ...

An Exploration of the Irish Presence in the Published Record

Flying, Hopping Pit-Bots for Cave and Lava Tube Exploration on the Moon and Mars

1. Introduction: Wheeled ground robots are limited from exploring extreme environments such as caves, lava tubes and skylights. Small robots that utilize un-conventional mobility through hopping, flying and rolling can overcome many roughness limitations and thus extend exploration sites of interest on Moon and Mars. In this paper we introduce a network of 3 kg, 0.30 m diameter ball robots (pit...

Effects of Active Exploration and Passive Observation on Spatial Learning in a CAVE

This experiment was a modification of Paul N. Wilson’s 1999 study entitled “Active Exploration of a Virtual Environment Does Not Promote Orientation or Memory for Objects.” It was hoped that changing the immersion level from a standard desktop monitor to a more immersive CAVE environment would change the results of this experiment. All subjects explored a three-dimensional virtual environment i...

Blombos Cave

Blombos Cave is an important site on the Southern Cape of South Africa for supporting " modern behavior " of the Middle Stone Age people. Many contend that the MSA people were not fully modern in behavior because the artifact remains do not support the working of organic material, fishing, and other advanced behavior. They also project that these behaviors may not have originated in Africa. How...