Thanks Phil for coming up with a
suggestion! Hey guys (and gals), do we have any others for January?
Roy
From:
gsas-board-bounces@thekrib.com [mailto:gsas-board-bounces@thekrib.com] On Behalf Of Phil Lacefield Jr.
Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009
12:10 PM
To: 'GSAS
board members and alumni'
Subject: [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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