2008 Meeting Schedule in Pittsburgh

[Steven Pro]

Jan. 26 - Coral Propagation Workshop

Feb. 23 - Chuck Stotelmeyer on Keeping Non-Photosynthetic Corals and Other Filter Feeders

*Bonus Meeting at the Pittsburgh Zoo - Must be a member in good standing to attend*
March 1 - Rich Terrell on Life Support Systems

March 29 - Kelly Maers on the Penn State Aquarium & Related Experiments

April 26 - Adam Cesnales on Designing a Refugium to Work Harder

May 31 - Matt Wittenrich on Breeding and Rearing Marine Fishes

June 28 - Jim Black on Diving in the Indo-Pacific

July 26 - Chris Jury on Carbonate Chemistry in the Aquarium: Making Sense of Calcium, Alkalinity, Magnesium, Carbon Dioxide and pH (tentative)

Aug. 30 - Steven Pro on The Greenhouse Two Years Later (tentative)

Sept. 27 - MACNA XX Review

Oct. 25 - John Coppolino on Rare & Unusual Angelfishes (tentative)

Dec. 6 - Mega Raffle

Check www.pmas.org for additional information on any of the above.

 

[Steven Pro]

Our next meeting is Saturday, February 23rd, about a week and a half away. It will be held as usual at the Radisson Inn in Monroeville beginning at 6:00 PM. Our guest speaker for the month is Chuck Stottlemire of Cleveland, Ohio. Chuck will be speaking on his attempts to keep various non-photosynthetic corals and other filter feeders. As a sneak peak, you can take a look at an article on Chuck's aquarium and his work here, http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2008-02/feature/index.php Hope to see some of you all there!

 

[Steven Pro]

*Bonus Meeting at the Pittsburgh Zoo - Must be a member in good standing to attend*
March 1 - Rich Terrell on Life Support Systems

Our bonus meeting at the zoo is tomorrow. You must be a member paid in full to attend (members can join or renew there, see a board member at the front gates, membership is $24 per household). Anyone planning to attend must be at the front gates no later than 5:30 PM so that we can all be escorted up together as the zoo will be closed to the public. The presentation is going to be in the new Water's Edge building. They have an auditorium looking into the polar bear tank there. After Rich's talk, we are going up to the aquarium and will be getting behind the scenes tours. It is at this time that the winners from the last meeting will get to pet the zebra sharks!

 

[Steven Pro]

This Saturday, August 30th, will be our last meeting at the Radisson/ExpoMart. The meeting will begin at our regular time, 6:00 PM. I will be speaking on venomous, poisonous, and infectious things in our aquariums.