The contribution entitled “Research applied to the preventive conservation of the karstic system of La Garma (Omoño, Ribamontán al Monte, Cantabria)”, authored, among others, by IRNAS researchers Valme Jurado Lobo and Cesáreo Saiz-Jimenez, received last October 1st the Cueva de Nerja Award to the best communication presented to the 6th Spanish Congress on Touristic Caves (Cuevatur 2016). The award was received during the closing act of the congress by Dr. Soledad Cuezva Robleño, from the National Museum of Natural Sciences, as first author of the awarded paper.