The UIS Prizes are awarded within the framework of the International Congresses of Speleology (ICS) and recognize the most outstanding accomplishments in speleology. They honor excellence in publications, posters, discoveries, and scientific achievements. The prizes were first awarded at the 11th ICS in Beijing (1993) and were officially incorporated into the International Regulations of the UIS in 2013.<\/p>\n
2025 (19th ICS, Brazil)<\/strong> 2022 (18th ICS, France)<\/strong> 2017 (17th ICS, Australia)<\/strong> 2013 (16th ICS, Czech Republic)<\/strong> 2009 (15th ICS, USA)<\/strong> 2005 (14th ICS, Greece)<\/strong> 2001 (13th ICS, Brazil)<\/strong> 1997 (12th ICS, Switzerland)<\/strong> 1993 (11th ICS, China)<\/strong> The UIS Prizes are awarded within the framework of the International Congresses of Speleology (ICS) and recognize the most outstanding accomplishments in speleology. They honor excellence in publications, posters, discoveries, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-3307","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uis-speleo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uis-speleo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uis-speleo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uis-speleo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uis-speleo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3307"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/uis-speleo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3313,"href":"https:\/\/uis-speleo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3307\/revisions\/3313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uis-speleo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMost Significant Publication About Caves or Karst:<\/strong> Alberto Sendra (Coord.) \u2013 Habitantes de la oscuridad
\nMost Significant Publication About Caves or Karst \u2013 1 st Honorable Mention:<\/strong> Jo De Waele & Francisco Guti\u00e9rrez \u2013 Karst Hydrogeology, Geomorphology and Caves
\nMost Significant Publication About Caves or Karst \u2013 2 nd Honorable Mention:<\/strong> Pavel Herich \u2013 Dem\u00e4novsk\u00e9 Jaskyne (Atlas of Karst Phenomena of the Dem\u00e4nov\u00e1 Valley, Slovakia)
\nBest Special Book:<\/strong> Leda Zogbi & Allan Calux – Luzes na Escurid\u00e4o (Vol. 3)
\nBest Special Book \u2013 1 st Honorable Mention:<\/strong> Philippe Crochet Annie Guiraud, Patrice Tordjman \u2013 Dans les Profondeurs de la Terre
\nBest Special Book \u2013 2 nd Honorable Mention:<\/strong> Mariana Barbosa Timo (Coord.) \u2013 Cavernantes Mirins
\nBest Special Book \u2013 3 rd Honorable Mention:<\/strong> Veronica Chiarini & Jo De Waele \u2013 Shapes and Voids
\nBest Poster in Scientific Research:<\/strong> Mateus Henrique Sim\u00f5es et al. \u2013 To be or not to be Troblobitic? Troglomorphisms in Brazilian cave fauna
\nBest Poster in Scientific Research \u2013 1 st Honorable Mention:<\/strong> Emili Fonseca et al. \u2013 Survey of Fungi from the air and sediment of Lapa da Cachoeira do Funil Cave in Mamba\u00ed, Goi\u00e1s, Brazil: Preliminary data
\nBest Poster in Scientific Research \u2013 2 nd Honorable Mention:<\/strong> Allan Calux & Elisandra Goldoni \u2013 The use of environmental compensation as mechanism for protecting speleological heritage
\nBest Poster in Cave Exploration (popular vote):<\/strong> Gabriel Redonte et al. \u2013 Los relevamientos topogr\u00e1ficos en el sistema cavernario Cuchillo Cur\u00e1, Neuqu\u00e9n, Argentina
\nGreatest Scientific Achievement:<\/strong> Alessandro Mastella et al. \u2013 The Cave Voice: Acoustic Monitoring of Floods in Spurga delle Cadene (Italy)
\nGreatest Scientific Achievement \u2013 1 st Honourable Mention:<\/strong> Alice Salussolia et al. \u2013 Taxonomy, phylogeney and evolutionary history of niphargid amphipods (Crustacea, Amphipoda) in Alpine groundwaters
\nMost Significant Cave Discovery\/Exploration:<\/strong> Subcomisi\u00f3n de Espeleolog\u00eda del Centro de Monta\u00f1a Tandil (Coord. Dino Mendy) \u2013 \u201cLa Ca\u00f1ada\u201d Piping Caves (Provincia de San Juan, Argentina)<\/p>\n
\nBest Publication:<\/strong> Ernest Geyer, Ralf Benischke, Josef Hasitschka (Austria) \u2013 Caves and Karst \u2013 Styrian Warscheneck Massif
\nBest Publication \u2013 Honorable Mention:<\/strong> Johannes Mattes (Austria) \u2013 Cultures of Knowledge in the Subterranean. A Biographical Lexicon of Speleology
\nBest Special Book:<\/strong> Antonio de Vivo, Francesco Sauro (Italy) \u2013 Into the Heart of the World \u2013 La Venta, 25 Years of Exploration
\nBest Poster:<\/strong> Fabien Hobl\u00e8a (France) \u2013 The Subpolar Karst of Madre de D\u00edos
\nBest Poster \u2013 Honorable Mention:<\/strong> Charlotte Honiat (France\/Austria) et al. \u2013 Last Interglacial Alpine Stalagmite Hunting
\nBest Poster \u2013 Honorable Mention:<\/strong> Rebeca Martin-Garc\u00eda (Spain) \u2013 Complex behavior of speleothems.
\nGreatest Scientific Achievement:<\/strong> Francesco Sauro (Italy) \u2013 Lava Tubes on Earth, Moon and Mars
\nMost Significant Discovery\/Exploration:<\/strong> La Venta (Italy) \u2013 NAICA: The Crystal Caves<\/p>\n
\nBest Publication:<\/strong> Annette Summers Engel (USA) \u2013 Microbial Life of Cave Systems
\nBest Special Book:<\/strong> Marcus Thomaz, Neil Silverwood (New Zealand) \u2013 Caves \u2013 Exploring New Zealand\u2019s Subterranean Wilderness
\nBest Special Book \u2013 Honorable Mention:<\/strong> Luis Enrique S\u00e1nchez (Brazil) \u2013 Guidebook of Good Environmental Practices in Karst Areas
\nBest Special Book \u2013 Honorable Mention:<\/strong> Johannes Mattes (Austria) \u2013 Travels into the Underground. A Cultural History of Cave Exploration
\nBest Scientific Poster:<\/strong> Gustavo Soares (Brazil) \u2013 Iron-rich Rocks: A Little Recognized Habitat
\nBest Caver\u2019s Poster:<\/strong> Joyce Lundberg \u2013 Analysis of Scallops in Gomantong Caves
\nMost Significant Discovery\/Exploration:<\/strong> Perovo-Speleo Team (Russia) \u2013 Veryovkina Cave Expeditions
\nMost Significant Discovery\/Exploration \u2013 Honorable Mention:<\/strong> Krzysztof Starnawski & Team \u2013 Hranick\u00e1 Propast, 404 m deep<\/p>\n
\nBest Special Book:<\/strong> Jan J. Fairchild (UK), Andy Baker (Australia\/UK) \u2013 Speleothem Science \u2013 From Process to Past Environments
\nBest Special Book:<\/strong> Heros Augusto Santos Lobo, Luiz Eduardo Panisset Travassos (Brazil) \u2013 O ser humano e a paisagem c\u00e1rstica (Humans and Karst Landscape)
\nBest Poster (Scientific Committee):<\/strong> Melissa Wilks (USA), Hazel A. Barton (USA) \u2013 Predation Mediated Carbon Turnover in Limited Cave Environments
\nBest Poster (General Public):<\/strong> Anamaria H\u00e4uselmann (Romania), Adam Hasenfratz (Switzerland), Hai Cheng (China), Lawrence Edwards (USA), Dominik Fleitmann (Germany) \u2013 Holocene Temperature Fluctuation in Central Europe Recorded in Stalagmite M6
\nMost Significant Discovery\/Exploration:<\/strong> Fort Stanton Cave Study Project (USA)
\nMost Significant Discovery\/Exploration \u2013 Honorable Mention:<\/strong> Sistema K\u2019oox Baal Project (Mexico)
\nMost Significant Discovery\/Exploration \u2013 Honorable Mention:<\/strong> Hang S\u01a1n \u0110o\u00f2ng Project (Vietnam)<\/p>\n
\nBest Publication (tie):<\/strong>
\n* Olivier Grunewald, David Wolozan (France) \u2013 Tsingy \u2013 Stone Forest \u2013 Madagascar
\n* R\u00e9my Wenger (Switzerland) \u2013 Cavernes \u2013 Face Cach\u00e9e de la Terre
\n* Philippe Brunet, Bernard Dupr\u00e9, Marc Faverjon (France) \u2013 La Grotte de Saint Marcel d\u2019Ard\u00e8che
\n* Petar Bron et al. (Bulgaria) \u2013 Caves and Speleology in Bulgaria
\n* Marek Audy (Czech Republic) \u2013 Br\u00e1ny do Ztracen\u00e9ho Sv\u011bta
\nBest Special Book (tie):<\/strong>
\n* Arthur N. Palmer (USA) \u2013 Cave Geology
\n* Derek Ford (Canada), Paul Williams (New Zealand) \u2013 Karst Hydrology and Geomorphology
\nBest Poster:<\/strong> John C. Tinsley III, Kenneth Miller, Robert A. Johnson (USA) \u2013 Sedimentology of particulate accumulation and its remediation, Skull Ice Cave
\nBest Poster (2nd prize):<\/strong> Erminio Canevese, Roberta Tedeschi, Paolo Forti (Italy) \u2013 Laser scanning
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\nBest Poster (3rd prize):<\/strong> Bogdan P. Onac (Romania) \u2013 Mineralogical and stable isotope investigations of minerals from caves in Cerna Valley
\nMost Significant Discovery\/Exploration:<\/strong> Hong Meigui Cave Exploration Society
\nMost Significant Discovery\/Exploration \u2013 Honorable Mention:<\/strong> Mexican-led Ocotempa Team
\nMost Significant Discovery\/Exploration \u2013 Honorable Mention:<\/strong> USA Deep Caving Team
\nSpecial Award for Speleological Art:<\/strong> Claude Chabert, Andre Prous, Ezio L. Rubbioli, Lu\u00eds B. Pil\u00f3, Ana E. Brina, Lilia S. Horta \u2013 Atlas do Janel\u00e3o<\/p>\n
\nBest Publication:<\/strong> Richard Maire, Jean-Pierre Barbay, Zhang Shouyue, Nathalie Vanara, Jean Bottazzi (France\/China) \u2013 Speleo\u2013karstologie et environnement en Chine
\nBest Publication \u2013 Honorable Mention:<\/strong> Philipp H\u00e4uselmann (Switzerland), ed. \u2013 Die St. Beatus- H\u00f6hlen
\nBest Publication \u2013 Honorable Mention:<\/strong> Howard M. Beck (USA), ed. \u2013 Beneath the Cloud Forests
\nBest Special Book (tie):<\/strong>
\n* David C. Culver, William B. White (USA), eds. \u2013 Encyclopedia of Caves
\n* John Gunn (UK), ed. \u2013 Encyclopedia of Caves and Karst Science
\nBest Poster:<\/strong> Kwang Choon Lee, Don Won Choi, Kyung Sik Woo (Republic of Korea) \u2013 Origin and diagenesis of cave corals in Lava Tubes of Jeju Island
\nBest Poster \u2013 Honorable Mention:<\/strong> Helena David (Brazil) \u2013 Conservation of Ballet Cave, Brazil
\nBest Poster \u2013 Honorable Mention:<\/strong> Stein-Erik Lauritzen, Lene Baastad (Norway), Julie Bj\u00f6rlien (Sweden) \u2013 The Svarthammar Project, Norway
\nMost Significant Discovery:<\/strong> Call of the Abyss (Ukrainian Speleological Society) \u2013 Exploration of Krubera Cave
\nMost Significant Discovery \u2013 Honorable Mention:<\/strong> Philippe Brunet (France) \u2013 L\u2019Ard\u00e8che souterraine
\nBest Film:<\/strong> international team \u2013 Journey to the Centre of the Earth
\nBest Film (2nd prize):<\/strong> K. Adomopoulos, N. Chaiklopoulos (Greece) \u2013 Anogeia 2002: Caving Expedition in Crete
\nBest Film (3rd prize):<\/strong> Jan Ellis Chandler (Spain) \u2013 In Sight of Light
\nBest Slide or Print:<\/strong> Robbie Shone (Great Britain)
\nBest Slide or Print (2nd and 3rd prize):<\/strong> George Avalanos (Greece)
\nBest Portfolio:<\/strong> George Avalanos (Greece) \u2013 Caves of Greece
\nBest Portfolio (2nd prize):<\/strong> Karst Features (USA) \u2013 Guadalupian Images<\/p>\n
\nBest Publication:<\/strong> Alexander Klimchouk (Ukraine), Derek Ford (Canada), Arthur N. Palmer (USA), Wolfgang Dreybrodt (Germany) \u2013 Speleogenesis: Evolution of Karst Aquifers
\nBest Publication (2nd prize):<\/strong> Spanish Federation of Speleology \u2013 Grandes cuevas y simas de Espa\u00f1a
\nBest Publication (3rd prize):<\/strong> George Veni, Harvey R. Duchene, Nicholas C. Crawford, Christopher G. Groves, George N. Huppert, Ernst H. Kastning, Rick Olson, Betty J. Wheeler (USA) \u2013 Living with Karst
\nBest Poster:<\/strong> Helena Hercman (Poland) \u2013 Reconstruction of palaeoclimatic changes in Europe for the last 200 years
\nBest Poster \u2013 Honorable Mention:<\/strong> Annalisa Contos, Julia James (Australia) \u2013 New rafts and old rafts
\nBest Poster \u2013 Honorable Mention:<\/strong> Michal Gradzinski (Poland) \u2013 Dark laminae in speleothems as indicator of prehistoric man
\nMost Significant Discovery\/Exploration:<\/strong> Ukrainian Speleological Association \u2013 Veronja Cave<\/p>\n
\nBest Publication:<\/strong> Carol Hill (USA), Paolo Forti (Italy) \u2013 Cave Minerals of the World
\nBest Publication \u2013 Honorable Mention:<\/strong> Chris Howes (USA) \u2013 Images Below
\nBest Publication \u2013 Honorable Mention:<\/strong> David Gillieson (Australia) \u2013 Caves: Processes, Development, Management
\nBest Poster:<\/strong> Spencer Coca (Germany\/Romania) \u2013 Avenul de sub Col\u021bii Grindului
\nMost Significant Discovery\/Exploration \u2013 Honorable Mention:<\/strong> French Exploration Team \u2013 Muruk
\nMost Significant Discovery\/Exploration \u2013 Honorable Mention:<\/strong> Ukrainian Exploration Team \u2013 Optimistic Cave
\nMost Significant Discovery\/Exploration \u2013 Honorable Mention:<\/strong> British Exploration Team \u2013 Ogof Draenen<\/p>\n
\nBest Publication:<\/strong> Chinese\u2013French Speleological Team \u2013 Gebihhe\u201989 \u2013 Karst in China
\nBest Slide:<\/strong> Jos\u00e9 A. Labegalini (Brazil) \u2013 Brazilian Caves\/Perua\u00e7u Valley
\nBest Slide (2nd prize):<\/strong> Julia M. James (Australia) \u2013 Speleothems in Cave of the Nullarbor
\nBest Slide (3rd prize):<\/strong> Clayton F. Lino (Brazil) \u2013 Brazilian Caves
\nBest Photo:<\/strong> Xingwen County (China) \u2013 Skylight
\nBest Photo (2nd prize):<\/strong> Zhu Shenglian (China) \u2013 Fiery Trees and Silvery Flowers
\nBest Photo (3rd prize):<\/strong> Wang Tianrui (China) \u2013 Indulge in pleasure and forget home duty
\nAlbum Series:<\/strong> Urs Widmer (Switzerland) \u2013 Jewel of the Underground: Lechuguilla
\nAlbum Series (2nd prize):<\/strong> Clayton F. Lino (Brazil) \u2013 Caves: The Fascination of Underground Brazil
\nAlbum Series (3rd prize):<\/strong> Ren\u00e9 Delan, Michel Siffre (France) \u2013 La Grotte de Clamouse
\nBest Video:<\/strong> G. Favre (Switzerland) \u2013 The River Beneath the Jungle
\nBest Video (2nd prize):<\/strong> John Gau (Great Britain) \u2013 Deep in the Labyrinth
\nBest Video (3rd prize):<\/strong> Wu Xiaoping (China) \u2013 The Soaring Dragon Cave<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"