2025 Conference Agenda

Sunday, November 2 - Tuesday, November 4

High Springs, Florida

Recreational and Cave Diving Meetups

Wednesday, November 5

High Springs, Florida

17:00
EE Cave Fest Presentation + Social

Thursday, November 6

High Springs, Florida

8:00
GUE Fun Run
Meet at GUE
9:00
Continental Breakfast for Fun Run participants
17:00
Evening Social - Signup Required
Dinner and drinks

Friday, November 7

UF Hilton - Gainesville, Florida

Registration includes all breakfast, lunch, snacks, cocktail reception, and banquet dinner

8:00
Registration and breakfast
Jarrod Jablonski

9:00
Welcome
Ballroom B/C
Deeper Learning and Critical Thinking
Ulrik Juul Christensen
Research Advisory Panel
Christina Ellervik

11:00
Break

11:20
Rebreather Design Innovations
Arne Sieber
Cave Exploration in Tamaulipas, Mexico
Osama Gobara
Recent shipwreck research in the Lake Ontario-St Lawrence Region
James Conolly
NextGen Year in Review
Jenn Thomson, Thanapol Tantagunninat, Jialing Cai

16:00
Cocktail reception with drinks and appetizers

17:30
Banquet Dinner Welcome
Dorota Czerny
Community and Sponsor Videos
18:00
Dinner
Dorota Czerny
In Memoriam, Recognition Awards
Jarrod Jablonski

Saturday, November 8

High Springs, Florida


9:00
Morning Meetup
Grab some coffee meet up with dive buddies for diving or head down to Florida Springs Institute

10:00
FSI's Blue Water Audit
Haley Moody
The Science of the Springs
Dr. Sky Notestein
Update on Mill Creek Sink
Bryan Buescher
SpeleoDB - Explore as One, Survey as Many
Jonathan Dekhtiar

13:00
Pizza Lunch
Grab some coffee meet up with dive buddies for diving or head down to Florida Springs Institute

14:00
Project Baseline Workshop 
Todd Kincaid
15:30
Symbios Workshop (non-diving)
Arne Sieber
17:00
Evening Social - Signup Required
Dinner, drinks, and mini golf

Sunday, November 9

High Springs, Florida

8:00
North Florida Field Trip 
(separate signup required)
Dr. Todd Kincaid
Meet at GUE HQ; 30 person limit