The International Union of Speleology
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Abstract:
The International Union of Speleology has now been in existence for over 60 years. The first International Congress of Speleology was in France in 1953. Since that time there has been a International Congress of Speleology every four years, in fourteen different countries. It was in the USA in both 1981 and 2009.
The next Congress is in Brno, Czech Republic on 20th to 28th July 2013. The International Union has a Management Bureau of thirteen people. Under the umbrella of the organisation come a number of working Commissions with such titles as, volcanic caves, hydrogeology, speleogenesis etc. There is currently a list of nearly thirty Commissions, some are more active than others, associated organisations to the UIS is, the International Show Caves Association which is also associated with ACKMA.
More recently regional bodies have been formed, including Central America and Europe.