| Colloquium
Caving in Mallorca

Within the programming Es Baluard in Year of the Archduke Luis Salvador 2015, and from the project of Natasha Hall located in the l’Observatori of the museum, there will be a conference focused on the theme of caving in Mallorca, with the island being an international leader in this field.

In 1896 the Archduke promoted the exploration of the Caves of Drach in Porto Cristo, by the renowned French caver E.M. Martel. At the present continue to be investigated by a prestigious interdisciplinary team from the UIB, who both study and record data to hnow the evolution and changes in climate changes, among other themes, while discovering new caves with new diving equipment.

In the talk will intervene the director of the museum, Nekane Aramburu, the artist and geographer Natasha Hall, Mateu Durán (guide to the Caves of Drach ), Joan Fornós UIB (Doctor of Geological Sciences and Professor of Earth Sciences at the UIB) and Xisco Gracia (caver diver and biologist).