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Yes its a Saturday Meeting. Unusual for us but it was the only way we could bring you guys the one and only Sanjay Yoshi (Photon Man).
Those that dont know Sanjay should look up the multiple articles he has written. Many are related to lighting, but Sanjay is a very well experienced aquarist and member of the Aquarist of the Year award by MASNA. Below will be Sanjay's Bio.
This meeting is open to the public.
Date: Saturday, September 26, 2015
Time: 9am-11am
Place: Nova Southeastern University Auditorium, in Dania Beach.
8000 N Ocean Dr, Dania Beach, FL 33004
Raffle Item: EcoTech Radion
Sanjays Bio::Our featured speaker this month will be Sanjay Joshi, Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Penn State University and reef addict since 1992.
Excerpt from the September/October LED Lighting Issue of CORAL:
Sanjay Joshi was born in 1959 and grew up in Bombay, India. At the age of 22 he emigrated to the US and now lives in Pennsylvania, where he is a professor of industrial engineering at Penn State University. Aside from his professional work, Sanjay has been a dedicated reef aquarist for decades, and because of his involvement in engineering, one of his special interests in the hobby is on the technical side: the lighting of coral reef tanks. For many years he has been analyzing and comparing the light spectrums of literally all the available lamp types used in this field. Lately he has been focussing on LED lighting.
CORAL: Sanjay, how many years have you been maintaining coral-reef aquaria? And how did you get into the hobby?
Prof. Sanjay Joshi: I have been keeping coral reef aquaria since around 1991. When growing up I was always fascinated by fish and aquariums, and I kept and bred several freshwater fish species in India, where aquarium-keeping has many serious enthusiasts. I used to spend all my little allowance on fish and aquariums. I had to give it all up when I came to the United States as a graduate student. For the next few years after coming to the US I did not have any aquariums, but admired them from afar. I was living in West Lafayette, Indiana while working toward my Ph.D. from Purdue University, and the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago was one of my favorite weekend trips. After getting a job at Penn State and purchasing a house, one of the first things I did was to set up a freshwater aquarium to fulfill my childhood dream of keeping discus. I did that for almost two years, until I walked into a store that had the most beautiful 30-gallon (114-L) reef aquarium I had ever seen. I had always wanted to keep saltwater fish and was already contemplating it. When I saw that reef tank I knew exactly what I wanted and plunged right in, and I've been doing it ever since. It has never become boring and has managed to keep my interest for 20 years. The size of my home tank has increased from 29 gallons (110 L) to 500 gallons (1900 L). The hobby has a lot to offer, with so many interesting life forms, challenges, and learning opportunities. Boredom doesn't exist in this hobby.
__________________
Eddie
FMAS 2015 BOD member
MACNA 2013 Chairman
Those that dont know Sanjay should look up the multiple articles he has written. Many are related to lighting, but Sanjay is a very well experienced aquarist and member of the Aquarist of the Year award by MASNA. Below will be Sanjay's Bio.
This meeting is open to the public.
Date: Saturday, September 26, 2015
Time: 9am-11am
Place: Nova Southeastern University Auditorium, in Dania Beach.
8000 N Ocean Dr, Dania Beach, FL 33004
Raffle Item: EcoTech Radion
Sanjays Bio::Our featured speaker this month will be Sanjay Joshi, Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Penn State University and reef addict since 1992.
Excerpt from the September/October LED Lighting Issue of CORAL:
Sanjay Joshi was born in 1959 and grew up in Bombay, India. At the age of 22 he emigrated to the US and now lives in Pennsylvania, where he is a professor of industrial engineering at Penn State University. Aside from his professional work, Sanjay has been a dedicated reef aquarist for decades, and because of his involvement in engineering, one of his special interests in the hobby is on the technical side: the lighting of coral reef tanks. For many years he has been analyzing and comparing the light spectrums of literally all the available lamp types used in this field. Lately he has been focussing on LED lighting.
CORAL: Sanjay, how many years have you been maintaining coral-reef aquaria? And how did you get into the hobby?
Prof. Sanjay Joshi: I have been keeping coral reef aquaria since around 1991. When growing up I was always fascinated by fish and aquariums, and I kept and bred several freshwater fish species in India, where aquarium-keeping has many serious enthusiasts. I used to spend all my little allowance on fish and aquariums. I had to give it all up when I came to the United States as a graduate student. For the next few years after coming to the US I did not have any aquariums, but admired them from afar. I was living in West Lafayette, Indiana while working toward my Ph.D. from Purdue University, and the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago was one of my favorite weekend trips. After getting a job at Penn State and purchasing a house, one of the first things I did was to set up a freshwater aquarium to fulfill my childhood dream of keeping discus. I did that for almost two years, until I walked into a store that had the most beautiful 30-gallon (114-L) reef aquarium I had ever seen. I had always wanted to keep saltwater fish and was already contemplating it. When I saw that reef tank I knew exactly what I wanted and plunged right in, and I've been doing it ever since. It has never become boring and has managed to keep my interest for 20 years. The size of my home tank has increased from 29 gallons (110 L) to 500 gallons (1900 L). The hobby has a lot to offer, with so many interesting life forms, challenges, and learning opportunities. Boredom doesn't exist in this hobby.
__________________
Eddie
FMAS 2015 BOD member
MACNA 2013 Chairman
