CCV is proud to have contributed independently and in conjunction with various other nonprofit organizations on many educational, research, and environmental protection projects over the years. Between the years 2010 and 2023, the Cave Conservancy of the Virginias has given a total of close to $750,000 in grants. A sample of these projects include the following:
Winter 2026
Fall 2025
Spring 2024
- Identification and dating of phenomenally – preserved fossil cat skeleton recovered from Burja Cave, Virginia
- Alex Hastings – Science Museum of Minnesota – $4,789.18
- Linking microeukaryotes and freshwater ostracodes to carbon cycle processes in a karst critical zone
- Terri Brown – University of Virginia’s College at Wise – $14,436.25
Fall 2023
- Virginia CaveSim Tour
- Zenah Orndorff – Virginia Speleological Survey – $4,789.18
- A paleoclimatic and paleoecological record from the Buckeye Creek Cave watershed, Greenbrier County, WV
- Greg Springer – Ohio University – $5,120.00
Summer 2023
Spring 2023
- Galvanized Pipe for Rogers Belmont Cave Entrance
- Jeff Jahn – Mid-Atlantic Cave Conservancy – $500.00
- Assessing seep amphipod and isopod resilience to environmental warming by metabolic plasticity proxy
- Stephen MacAvoy – American University – $17,000.00
Fall 2022
- Descriptions of six new cave and karst groundwater isopod species from Virginia
- Julian Lewis – DCR Natural Heritage Karst Program – $33,600.00
Spring 2022
- Fate and transport of E. coli through karst systems
- Jonathan A. Czuba – Virginia Tech – $16,198.00
- Systematic Microbial Sampling of Karst Groundwaters in Virginia and West Virginia
- Riley Drake – Cave Exploration Society Inc. – $6,461.00
Spring 2021
- Potential Metabolic Adaptation to Groundwater Warming Among Subterranean Aquatic Crustacean Species
- Daniel Fong – American University – $18,695.00
- Butler Cave Conservation Society Karst Educational Trail
- Phil Lucas – Butler Cave Conservancy Society, Inc – $14,910.00
Fall 2019
- Revision of the cave groundwater isopods of the Virginias, with descriptions of four new species from southwestern Virginia
- Julian Lewis – DCR Natural Heritage Karst Office – $4,800.00
- Extraction of a Large Cat Skeleton from Burja Cave, Virginia: A Witness to Large Predator Regime Change in the Appalachians
- Alex Hastings – Science Museum of Minnesota – $4,808.00
Previous
- Powell Mountain Karst Preserve
- Richmond Children’s Museum Cave Exhibit
- VA Natural History Museum and VA Science Museum Exhibit
- Book Donation Program for VA and WV Libraries in Karst Areas
- Project Underground School Programs
- Karst Waters Institute Biology Camp/Hydrology Camp
- Karst Waters Institute (KWI) Conference
- KWI Geomicrobiology and Redox Geochemistry Conference
- Nature Conservancy Hydrological Study of Unthanks Cave
- Nature Conservancy Cave Registry Program
- Nature Conservancy Cave Invertebrates Inventory
- Living on Karst: A guide for landowners and Karst Resource Conservation Planning
- Karst Hydrology Atlas for West Virginia
- West Virginia Cave Protection Act Signs
- Madison Cave Project
- Isopod Habitat Restoration (Madison Cave and area)
- Project “We’ll Help” – Education of Proper Cave Management
- Protection of Gray Bats in Hubbard’s Cave
- Funding of West Virginia Association for Cave Studies, Inc.
- Virginia Cave Board’s (Commonwealth of Virginia) “In Karstlands….
- What Goes Down, Must Come Up!” Poster
- Spring and Groundwater Resources Institute
- Groundwater Planning Conference
- Virginia Speleological Survey
- Various Local Charitable Donations/Volunteer Projects
- West Virginia Cave Conservancy
- Karst Resource Conservation Planning
- Appalachian Cave Conservancy
- Cave and Sinkhole Cleanouts
- “Growing Communities on Karst” workshop series