Cave science and a few big sites for sport cavers.
A brief look at caves from a former caver and current armchair scientist.
A large karstland is preserved in the California gold country.
Deep places around the world are the favored sites for research projects seeking the still small voice of WIMPs and neutrinos.
Who wants to be a geo-whiz? The trivia game: CAVES
New Scientist wrote about the amazing and disgusting sulfur cave, Cueva de Villa Luz, in southern Mexico.
This research-oriented organization publishes the Speleo-Abstracts bibliography and is working on a searchable science index.
The Oakland Museum of California's special exhibit includes a beautiful selection of photographs and explanations of the different kinds of caves in the state.
This Special Interest Group is part of the British Cave Research Association. It explores subterranean communications, surveying, computing underground, and other unexpected topics.
It's pretty specialized, but if you ever need to know the German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Hungarian, or Romanian equivalent of a term, this is the only place to go.
Andrew Brooks maintains this thorough site about localities and techniques in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
The Caving Canada site has resources on cave life, bats, karst studies, fossils and lots more.
The Australian Speleological Association publishes this list of some 750 terms, ranging from "cave" to "stygoxene," maintained by Max Meth.
This English-language site by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication includes explorations of the painted caves Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc and Lascaux.
A "geobit" online pamphlet from the Illinois State Geological Survey.
The U.S. park service provides laws and regulations on this site, as well as a fine tour of cave and karst-related parks.
The NSS is the foremost caving organization in the United States. This site has photos, lists of local chapters, and a wide range of other resources.
This PDF paper (600 KB) from the Slovenian journal Acta Carsologica has remarkable maps and photos from the salt karst of southern Iran, explored by a group of Czech cave maniacs.
