moe_k
Premium Member
The next meeting for the Boston Reefers' Society will be:
11:00am to 4:30pm on Saturday 24Feb2007.
The location is the VFW lodge at 32 Park St in North Andover, MA.
Click here for a link to a map.
We will have a guest speaker who will give us a presentation on sea horses. More details to follow.
Here's the more details (Greg Hiller posting in here)
Jorge Gomezjurado will be giving the presentation, there's a bit of a bio on him below. There will also be a group buy on seahorses (15% discount) at the time of the meeting which will also be extended for several weeks after the meeting as well. Details of the buy are here:
http://www.bostonreefers.org/forums/showthread.php?p=390283#post390283
Jorge Gomezjurado is the president and founder of Draco Marine Aquaculture, LLC. Jorge has been fascinated by seahorses since he was very young. At the age of five, his sister gave him a dry seahorse and he kept it for a couple years, observing the animal’s fascinating features. After obtaining his degree in Fisheries Sciences and Technology at the Escuela Superior Politectnica del Litoral (Santa Elena, Ecuador) in 1994, Jorge was hired as a research associate at the Charles Darwin Research Station (CDRS) in the Galapagos Islands. At the CDRS Jorge assisted the Director of the Marine Laboratory by doing research on ecology of marine benthic communities and reproductive biology of several marine invertebrates. One of the main projects that he assisted was a study on population ecology and reproductive biology of the commercial sea cucumber Stichopus fuscus. This is when seahorses called his attention again.
Seahorses Hippocampus ingens were being collected by commercial sea cucumber divers and dried on the deck of their fishing boats. After a little investigation he found that the seahorses were been exported to Asia to be used for Traditional Chinese Medicines. At the CDRS Jorge was also in charge of the dive operations and laboratory research vessels. In the Galapagos, Jorge had the opportunity to make 3 deep dives aboard the Johnson Sea Link Submersible from the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution. During his time at the Charles Darwin Research Station Jorge also had the opportunity to participate with many visiting international scientists on their research trips around the islands. This experience gave him a wide knowledge of the fauna and flora, habitats and geography of the Islands.
In 1996 Jorge moved to San Francisco, California and worked at the Academy of Sciences' Steinhart Aquarium as an Aquatic Biologist II. At Steinhart, Jorge proposed, developed and managed the Pacific Giant Seahorse Hippocampus ingens breeding program, where he established innovative aquaculture technology protocols for successfully breeding this species. In 1998 Jorge was one of the 35 public aquarium members invited to participate at the First International Aquarium Workshop on Seahorse Husbandry, Management, and Conservation organized by Project Seahorse and the John G. Shedd Aquarium in Chicago.
In July 1999, Jorge joined the National Aquarium in Baltimore (NAIB),where he designed, developed and managed the Seahorse Breeding Laboratory at the University of Maryland’s Center of Marine Biotechnology (COMB) and he was the instrumental member of the designing team for the NAIB's world renowned seahorse exhibit, “Seahorses: Beyond Imagination.†To date Jorge has successfully bred and raised 14 species of seahorses and 6 species of pipefish
Jorge's specialty is Marine Aquaculture with emphasis in fish reproduction and sustainable aquaculture engineering. Jorge has dived and observed seahorses and other Syngnathids in the wild in the Galapagos Islands, the coast of Ecuador, the west coast of Mexico, the coast of Southern and North California, the Mid Atlantic coast of America and the Caribbean. He has also participated during the collection and transport of seahorses on the Adriatic coast of Italy.
As an experienced seahorse biologist who is widely respected in the aquarium and aquaculture industry, Jorge has been asked to consult with many institutions in the areas of seahorse aquaculture and aquarium public exhibitions in Italy, Ireland, Spain, Peru, Ecuador and several in the USA.
Jorge currently is a UMBI/COMB Research Specialist collaborating with the University of Maryland on the research and development of technology to culture different aquatic organisms of high economical value in the seafood, medical research and general aquaculture industry.
We will have the usual frag swap at the end of the meeting. There may be a raffle too. Again, more details to come.
More details can be found here:
http://www.bostonreefers.org/forums/showthread.php?t=40002
11:00am to 4:30pm on Saturday 24Feb2007.
The location is the VFW lodge at 32 Park St in North Andover, MA.
Click here for a link to a map.
We will have a guest speaker who will give us a presentation on sea horses. More details to follow.
Here's the more details (Greg Hiller posting in here)
Jorge Gomezjurado will be giving the presentation, there's a bit of a bio on him below. There will also be a group buy on seahorses (15% discount) at the time of the meeting which will also be extended for several weeks after the meeting as well. Details of the buy are here:
http://www.bostonreefers.org/forums/showthread.php?p=390283#post390283
Jorge Gomezjurado is the president and founder of Draco Marine Aquaculture, LLC. Jorge has been fascinated by seahorses since he was very young. At the age of five, his sister gave him a dry seahorse and he kept it for a couple years, observing the animal’s fascinating features. After obtaining his degree in Fisheries Sciences and Technology at the Escuela Superior Politectnica del Litoral (Santa Elena, Ecuador) in 1994, Jorge was hired as a research associate at the Charles Darwin Research Station (CDRS) in the Galapagos Islands. At the CDRS Jorge assisted the Director of the Marine Laboratory by doing research on ecology of marine benthic communities and reproductive biology of several marine invertebrates. One of the main projects that he assisted was a study on population ecology and reproductive biology of the commercial sea cucumber Stichopus fuscus. This is when seahorses called his attention again.
Seahorses Hippocampus ingens were being collected by commercial sea cucumber divers and dried on the deck of their fishing boats. After a little investigation he found that the seahorses were been exported to Asia to be used for Traditional Chinese Medicines. At the CDRS Jorge was also in charge of the dive operations and laboratory research vessels. In the Galapagos, Jorge had the opportunity to make 3 deep dives aboard the Johnson Sea Link Submersible from the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution. During his time at the Charles Darwin Research Station Jorge also had the opportunity to participate with many visiting international scientists on their research trips around the islands. This experience gave him a wide knowledge of the fauna and flora, habitats and geography of the Islands.
In 1996 Jorge moved to San Francisco, California and worked at the Academy of Sciences' Steinhart Aquarium as an Aquatic Biologist II. At Steinhart, Jorge proposed, developed and managed the Pacific Giant Seahorse Hippocampus ingens breeding program, where he established innovative aquaculture technology protocols for successfully breeding this species. In 1998 Jorge was one of the 35 public aquarium members invited to participate at the First International Aquarium Workshop on Seahorse Husbandry, Management, and Conservation organized by Project Seahorse and the John G. Shedd Aquarium in Chicago.
In July 1999, Jorge joined the National Aquarium in Baltimore (NAIB),where he designed, developed and managed the Seahorse Breeding Laboratory at the University of Maryland’s Center of Marine Biotechnology (COMB) and he was the instrumental member of the designing team for the NAIB's world renowned seahorse exhibit, “Seahorses: Beyond Imagination.†To date Jorge has successfully bred and raised 14 species of seahorses and 6 species of pipefish
Jorge's specialty is Marine Aquaculture with emphasis in fish reproduction and sustainable aquaculture engineering. Jorge has dived and observed seahorses and other Syngnathids in the wild in the Galapagos Islands, the coast of Ecuador, the west coast of Mexico, the coast of Southern and North California, the Mid Atlantic coast of America and the Caribbean. He has also participated during the collection and transport of seahorses on the Adriatic coast of Italy.
As an experienced seahorse biologist who is widely respected in the aquarium and aquaculture industry, Jorge has been asked to consult with many institutions in the areas of seahorse aquaculture and aquarium public exhibitions in Italy, Ireland, Spain, Peru, Ecuador and several in the USA.
Jorge currently is a UMBI/COMB Research Specialist collaborating with the University of Maryland on the research and development of technology to culture different aquatic organisms of high economical value in the seafood, medical research and general aquaculture industry.
We will have the usual frag swap at the end of the meeting. There may be a raffle too. Again, more details to come.
More details can be found here:
http://www.bostonreefers.org/forums/showthread.php?t=40002
