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Guest Speakers & Schedule

Schedule:
11:00 am   Doors Open
11:30 am - 12:30 pm   Speaker #1   Richard Ross
12:40 pm -   1:40 pm   Speaker #2  Christine Williams
  1:50 pm -   2:50 pm   Speaker #3   Sanjay Joshi
  3:00 pm -   4:00 pm   Speaker #4   Joe Yaiullo
  4:00 pm   Raffle ticket sales end
  4:15 pm   Raffle Starts
  5:00 pm   Doors Close

Speakers:

Richard Ross
11:30 am - 12:30 pm

Title: "Are you sure that thing is true or did someone tell it to you?" - Skeptical Reefing - why it matters, why will it help you and why it's good for your animals! (Not the 200,000g talk)

Bio: Richard Ross currently works as an Aquatic Biologist at the Steinhart Aquarium in the California Academy of Sciences, maintaining many exhibits including the 212,000 gallon Phipipine Coral Reef. He has kept saltwater animals for over 25 years, and has worked in aquarium maintenance, retail, wholesale and has consulted for a coral farm/fish collecting station in the South Pacific. Richard enjoys all aspects of the aquarium hobby and is a regular author for trade publications, a frequent speaker at aquarium conferences and was a founder of one of the largest and most progressive reef clubs in Northern California, Bay Area Reefers. He is an avid underwater videographer and has been fortunate to scuba dive all over the world. At home he maintains a 300 gallon reef system and a 250 gallon cephalopod/fish breeding system, and was one of the first people to close the life cycle of Sepia bandensis. When not doing all that stuff, he enjoys spending time with his patient wife, his incredible daughter and their menagerie of animals, both wet and dry..

Visit Rich online at:

www.Reefs.org
www.TONMO.com
www.stickycricket.com
www.ReefBuilders.com

Christine Williams
12:40 pm - 1:40 pm

Title: "When Aquariums Attack!  Bites, Stings, Cuts, and other unfortunate events...and what to do"

Bio: Christine Williams started keeping fish while she was still a fetus. While the aqueous environment did lend itself to the hobby, it limited her to freshwater species, and so she decided to be born several weeks early. Through sign language she demanded that her parents convert her crib into a reef aquarium and thus started her illustrious career in marine ornamentals. After completing her studies in biochemistry and molecular microbiology she went to work at “Animal ER” where unfortunately she was not filmed for the Animal Planet channel (though her feet did make a cameo during a rescue segment). Currently she is the head of the Industrial Marine Microbiology team for her division of a “very large international chemical company,” where she spends her days mixing chemicals, microorganisms and algae together and seeing if they will A) explode, B) glow in the dark, or C) make a good salsa. In order to further her skills she is also a graduate student at Stony Brook University's School of Marine and Atmospheric Science.

Visit Christine online at:

www.ReefBuilders.com

Sanjay Joshi
1:50 pm - 2:50 pm

Title: "LED Basics and Comparison to Other Lighting Technologies"

Sanjay Joshi in real life is a Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Penn State University. He has been a reef addict since 1992, and currently keeps several reefs aquariums at home including a 500G SPS dominated reef. He also co-manages the 500G aquarium at Penn State.

He has published several articles in magazines such as Marine Fish and Reef Annual, Aquarium Frontiers, Aquarium Fish, and Advanced Aquarist. In addition he has been an invited speaker at several marine aquarium society meetings in the US and Europe. He received the MASNA award in 2006, for his contributions to the marine aquarium hobby.

Visit Sanjay online at:

http://www.manhattanreefs.com/lighting

Joe Yaiullo
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Title: "20,000 Gallons of Reef and its not just about the corals anymore"

Bio: As a kid, Joe Yaiullo spent much of his childhood maintaining home aquariums and exploring the marine life surrounding Long Island, New York. Now he gets paid to basically do what he did as a kid and has been keeping reef tanks for over 20 years.

Joe Yaiullo has a B.S. in Marine Science from LIU Southampton College's marine science program, and worked for 8 years at the NY Aquarium in Brooklyn, New York as Senior Aquarist. In 1992, he began to shape his plan for a world-class aquarium on Long Island's East End and in 2000, after toiling for eight long years, his plans and vision became a reality with the opening of Atlantis Marine World Aquarium in Riverhead, NY.

In 2003, Joe was awarded The Distinguished Alumni Award from Southampton College and is currently president of the Long Island Reef Association, LIRA. (www.longislandreef.org) Joe, an admitted “Coralaholic”, currently feeds his ever increasing addiction with a 20,000 gallon live coral reef display, which is acclaimed as the pinnacle of reef keeping to date. As in true coralaholic fashion, a much larger display is in the planning stages.

Joe has been featured in many reef keeping magazines and books, and has presented lectures throughout the USA including several MACNA’s and in Canada, Germany, Sweden, Finland, England, Monaco, France and The Netherlands. The best recent addition to his reef tank though is a water proof iPod case so Joe can rock out while diving in his tank. Atlantis Marine World has doubled in size since it opened, with many future exhibits in the works. So even though it’s on a larger scale, Curator and Co-founder Joe Yaiullo still considers it all his “DIY” project.

Visit Joe online at:

www.atlantismarineworld.com
www.advancedaquarist.com/2007/2/aaeditorial
www.advancedaquarist.com/2007/2/aquarium
www.wetwebmedia.com/ca/volume_3/cav3i5/Dutchman_in_NY/Dutchman_at_atlantis.htm