Projects

ACKMA Cave Climate Project

During 2020 ACKMA instigated the deployment of data loggers to a number of cave sites throughout
Australia and New Zealand. This was an attempt to capture the best baseline climate data for all of
these caves, as visitation to the caves had been halted due to COVID-19 restrictions. The data
collected currently starts from the 28/05/2020 and runs to 18/08/2025. Overall the number of data
records is 39931 (as at mid 2021) with Te Anau Cave, in New Zealand, providing the most continuous data set so far.

Andy Baker asked that interactive graphs be created online to provide ACKMA with a way of
displaying the data. These graphs would enable the display of the data and allow visitors to
interactively interpret the changes occurring in each cave site’s temperature and relative humidity
data. We have also obtained Internal and External temperature data for all sites. Interpretation of
the data beneath each of the graphs is also provided for some sites. As more data is provided
further interpretation of the data will be provided.

At present a webpage has been created that lists all of the sites that have provided data from the
ACKMA data loggers, along with links to graphs that are generated online from the raw data.

Here is the link to the ACKMA Climate Project Graphs.

Click here for the ACKMA Cave Climate Graphs.