[GSAS-board] FW: Aquarium club talk

Hey gang, here’s the conversation I’ve had with Jennifer at the Vancouver Aquarium. Thoughts?

Phil

From: Jennifer Reynolds [mailto:Jennifer.Reynolds@vanaqua.org]
Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 11:43 AM
To: 'Phil Lacefield Jr.'
Subject: RE: Aquarium club talk

Hi again Phil,

Let me know what the gang thinks. To be honest, I would rather do my Tanganyika presentation just because it's already all prepped, I've had a few chances to practice it so far, and I'm eager to share what I experienced with other keeners- I know if I weren't already me, I'd love to see this talk- it even has underwater video. My favourite is of cooperative hunting behaviour between mastacembelid eels and predatory cichlids!

The other factor of course is time to make a new presentation- kind of lacking on that front right now, and with the holidays coming up, it's sure to get worse. Now, I could easily do a really short blurb about the Aquarium either before or after that- I think I can do a good job of talking the place up and I could bring down some pamphlets, possibly even raffle off some more admission passes/etc if I can get my paws on some...

Cheers,

Jen

Jen Reynolds

Senior Aquarium Biologist, Tropical Waters

Vancouver Aquarium

Ph: (604) 659-3530 Fax: (604) 659- 3502

jen.reynolds@vanaqua.org

From: Phil Lacefield Jr. [mailto:phil@lacefield.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 10:42 AM
To: Jennifer Reynolds
Subject: Re: Aquarium club talk

Hey there! I'll be more than happy to pass this along to Those Who Decide on our board, and personally I would love to hear more about cichlids - we had Lawrence Kent do an utterly amazing talk on his West African adventures int he spring, and I even won some of the fish he hand-carried back on the plane. Yeah, I know!!! :-)

However, I have a feeling we might be a tiny bit cichlid-ed out, as the question arose at our board meet on Tuesday that someone might want to come down and discuss the Vanc Aquarium and what you do there/why it's an awesome aquarium to visit. I thought it was particularly cool that we got to visit an aquarium in a country that borders a vast portion of the Arctic, not a perspective we often get down here :-) Maybe combine the two somehow?

Like I said, this evening I'll pass this along and we'll see what we can do!

THanks so much! - Phil

Jennifer Reynolds writes:

Hi Phil,

Dave passed on a message to me that you are looking for speakers for January. I've done a talk on my cichlid work in Lake Tanganyika last year a few times now that has been pretty well received. It's especially good for cichlid geeks, but I also include some stuff for travellers, catfish and eel folks, and scuba divers- lots of underwater photography in it, too. Attached is a little blurb/poster type thing with a couple of images and a write up about my work. Let me know if you're interested- would be a good opportunity for me to come down to Seattle. I also know there are lots of folks in the Seattle club who are way more into Africans than there are here- so it would be awesome to talk to them about it. I saw Ad Koning's talk on Lake Malawi down in Seattle about 5-6 years ago or so.

The only potential issue is I may be going to Brazil in late January for some work with the World Fisheries Trust and a new aquarium in Belo Horizonte. That hasn't yet been confirmed, however- and the dates were definitely leaning more toward the end of the month. I *think* it is a safe bet that I can do Jan 12, but just wanted to let you know that there could be complications.

Let me know what you think!

Cheers, and thanks again for your terrific auctioneering.

Jen

Jen Reynolds
Senior Aquarium Biologist, Tropical Waters
Vancouver Aquarium
Ph: (604) 659-3530 Fax: (604) 659- 3502
jen.reynolds@vanaqua.org

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