National Cave and Karst Research Institute

Carlsbad, New Mexico | Conduct, support, facilitate, and promote programs in cave and karst research, education, environmental management, and data acquisition and sharing.

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NCKRI was born from a passion for protecting caves with their abundant research opportunities and diversity of resources.

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    Dr. Ben Tobin

    Director

    Coming Soon

  • Valerie Davis

    Valerie Davis

    Operations Division Director

    Lifelong New Mexican who values supporting educational endeavors by utilizing her administrative skills to support research programs, with sustainable and creative solutions.

  • Dr. Daniel S. Jones

    Dr. Dan Jones

    Assistant Professor of Geobiology, New Mexico Tech
    Academic Director NCKRI

    Dan has been studying caves and the microbes that make them since 2005. Geomicrobiologist, geochemist, and karst scientist. Assistant Professor of Geobiology at New Mexico Tech.

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    Devra Willingham

    Education Program Manager

    Mary Poppins and Ms. Frizzle are my heroes, so I take chances, make mistakes, and have a never-ending tool bag to solve problems. I also like to trepidatiously go where no one has gone before with an ample supply of gummy bears.