BAYMAC2011 - Sat May 14 - Hayward, CA

The Bay Area Marine Aquarium Conference
Saturday May 14th - 11:00am >> 5:00pm
Chabot College - Hayward, CA
Bay Area Marine Aquarium Conference
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Free Admission!!
Free parking!!!
Massive raffle!!
Door Prizes!! (4x $250 GC valid @ any "Participating LFS")
Hungry? No worries 'Frank" will be there with his hot dog cart serving up dogs all day long - vending machines for snacks - plenty of food to be found locally with in a shirt driving distance


Hosted By:
BAR - Bay Area Reefers


Sponsored By:
Reef Nutrition
Kessil Lighting

Water & salt Sponsored by:
ESV Co
Aquatic Collection


ONsight - Critter ID booth hosted by:
Leslie Harris of the Natural History Museum of L.A. County
more hosts TBA


Guest Speakers:


Justin Credabel - CA
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Title: "The New Coral Bank, The Global Coral Repository"



Tony Vargas - FLA
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Title: "Successful Reef Aquariums From Around The World (& how they got there!)"



Simon Garratt - UK
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Title: "Pushing The boundaries"


Exhibitors:
Reef Nutrition
Kessil Lighting
Marco Rocks
Acan Lighting
Neptune Systems
Boston Aqua Farms
Sunlight Supply
CPR Aquatic
SunBrite Lighting
Seachem
Zoomed
Nano Customs
Illuminarium
ATI
AquaIllumination
Karen Talbot Art

Vendors:
Your Reef
Neptune Aquatics
Fins And Critters
Exotic Frags
Reef Odyssey
Fantastic Frags
Fluid Dynamics Aquariums
Reef Empire
The Happy Coral
Aquarium In Motion
Dream Coral
Great Ocean Wonders
Sustainable Reefs
Stewart's Frag Farm

Reef Clubs:
BAR
NVR
CVR
NCRC
more TBA (if your club wants to join in please contact us via the website)

Featuring the Reef Builders balcony Lounge over looking the conference room

 

Can't wait!
Last year was great.

 

yall are soo lucky to be able to attend these events... nothing ever goes on down here... i think macna came years ago, but nothing recent..

 

I will be there with 3 friends.

 

Oh I so wish I could go. I would really like to see Tony Vargas. Why oh why did I leave Ca....... :-(

 

Im going

 

Ohhhhhhhh..... There's a critter booth. I wanna see!


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Sent from Tapatalk, so please forgive grammar and spelling

 

Sure is... and I bet you've seen Leslie Harris (LeslieH) online doing IDs on various forums

The other scientist that will be hosting the booth is Dr Eric Henry. He's the lead research scientist at Reed Mariculture (Reef Nutrition) and the resident Phycologist.

The page is still being worked on but here is the gist:

ONSIGHT - Spineless Marine Life Visual ID Booth | www.thebaymac.com



* Wondering what that thing is that crawled out of your live rock?
* How about the thing that you found in the sand yesterday?
* What is that stuff growing on your powerhead?
* Why is my water green?

-Put it in a bag and bring it to the ONSIGHT Spineless Marine Life Visual ID booth-

* co-hosted by Leslie Harris and Eric Henry

Perhaps they can tell you what it is?


A little about Leslie Harris:
[imghttp://thebaymac.com/sites/default/files/Leslie_Harris_and_Friends_painting_by_spark.jpg[/img]

Leslie Harris is a certifiable worm obsessive, invert addict, and macro-photographer. Her day job is managing the AHF Polychaete Collection at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, one of the world's largest research collections of preserved worms. Most nights she is either doing consulting work (polychaete identifications & ecology for a variety of studies), her own research, or editing photos. In spare moments she daydreams about travel to weird & wonderful places in search of her favorite inverts. Says Leslie, "I can't get enough of live animals or information about them. I started lurking on underwater photography boards to satisfy my critter craving when I couldn't travel. Then I went to a few aquarium sites & realized that observant reefers were seeing invert behavior & critters unknown to academics. Not being able to keep my mouth shut when it comes to identifications, I soon got roped into moderating the critter ids forums for a number of sites as well as giving talks to reef clubs throughout the country. Now I'm truly hooked! I don't own an aquarium but very much like the fact that all of you do." (Courtesy of Randy Donowitz, Manhattan Reefs)