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Re: [GSAS-board] FW: Aquarium club talk



Ad's talk will most definitely be about Rift Lake Cichlids. I think Wayne Leibel's talk will be on speciation and hybrids, but he is a cichlid guy.

What *are* the January and March topics? Kathy had said she heard from Paul that the cichlid guy who just moved here was talking in January... leaving March as the only open slot for the home show. What's going on?

  - Erik


On Sun, 22 Nov 2009, Susan Welenofsky wrote:

Is it filmed in the actual lake? Sounds very interesting, but I wonder what Ad 
Konings talk is
going to be about since he's very into rift lake cichlids.
Susan


On Nov 21, 2009, at 2:39 PM, Seattle_Aquarist wrote:

      Thanks Phil for coming up with a suggestion!  Hey guys (and gals), do we 
have any
      others for January?  Roy

       


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      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

 

 


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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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