Event: WAMAS Fall 2024 Meeting
Saturday October 5, 2024
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:45 PM (Speaker starts at 3:00 PM)
Where: North Bethesda Middle School, 8935 Bradmoor Drive, Bethesda, MD 20817
WAMAS members get in free. Guests are $5 each (paid at the door). Join WAMAS at this link.
Agenda:
1:30 Sign-in / socialize / frag sales
2:45 Club business
3:00 Speaker - Mike Henley, Fellow, Center for Species Survival, Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute
4:00 Break
4:15 Raffle!
Directions to North Bethesda Middle School:
- NOTE: The school is just inside the north edge of the beltway near Old Georgetown Road.
Here's a map from Google Maps:
https://goo.gl/maps/bKz79Y9HmQF2
(Pictured: left- Mike Henley; right John Coppolino, WAMAS Speaker Coordinator)
Mike is a WAMAS member who has a distinguished career working at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. He is currently a Fellow with their Center for Species Survival, based in Hawaii. Mike also work several years in the Invertebrate House at the National Zoo in DC, where he was part of team of scientists and researchers working in the SECORE program. SECORE stands for SExual COral REproduction, which refers to SECORE's Coral Seeding approach for reef restoration: taking advantage of the corals’ own reproduction potential to develop scalable methods and technologies. Breeding corals from collected coral spawn allows SECORE to produce huge numbers of baby corals out of one spawning event while at the same time supporting genetic diversity and consequently promoting reef resilience.
Special thanks to theses sponsors. Please support them & say thanks next time you shop with them. You can find their website address by visiting their forum or the sponsor page on the WAMAS website.
WAMAS Platinum Sponsors
- Air, Water & Ice
- Avast Marine
- Blue Ribbon Koi
- Capital Exotic Fish
- ChemiPure (Boyd Enterprises)
- Coral Magazine
- Exotic Reef Creations
- Frank's Tanks
- Maxspect
- Puddle Aquatics
- Reed Mariculture (Reef Nutrition)
- Reef eScape
- Supreme Reefs
WAMAS Banner-Only Sponsors
- Bulk Reef Supply
- Cobalt Aquatics
- Coral Candy Aquaculture
- Jellyfish Art
- MASNA
- Two Little Fishies
Saturday October 5, 2024
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:45 PM (Speaker starts at 3:00 PM)
Where: North Bethesda Middle School, 8935 Bradmoor Drive, Bethesda, MD 20817
WAMAS members get in free. Guests are $5 each (paid at the door). Join WAMAS at this link.
Agenda:
1:30 Sign-in / socialize / frag sales
2:45 Club business
3:00 Speaker - Mike Henley, Fellow, Center for Species Survival, Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute
4:00 Break
4:15 Raffle!
Directions to North Bethesda Middle School:
- NOTE: The school is just inside the north edge of the beltway near Old Georgetown Road.
Here's a map from Google Maps:
https://goo.gl/maps/bKz79Y9HmQF2
(Pictured: left- Mike Henley; right John Coppolino, WAMAS Speaker Coordinator)
Mike is a WAMAS member who has a distinguished career working at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. He is currently a Fellow with their Center for Species Survival, based in Hawaii. Mike also work several years in the Invertebrate House at the National Zoo in DC, where he was part of team of scientists and researchers working in the SECORE program. SECORE stands for SExual COral REproduction, which refers to SECORE's Coral Seeding approach for reef restoration: taking advantage of the corals’ own reproduction potential to develop scalable methods and technologies. Breeding corals from collected coral spawn allows SECORE to produce huge numbers of baby corals out of one spawning event while at the same time supporting genetic diversity and consequently promoting reef resilience.
Special thanks to theses sponsors. Please support them & say thanks next time you shop with them. You can find their website address by visiting their forum or the sponsor page on the WAMAS website.
WAMAS Platinum Sponsors
- Air, Water & Ice
- Avast Marine
- Blue Ribbon Koi
- Capital Exotic Fish
- ChemiPure (Boyd Enterprises)
- Coral Magazine
- Exotic Reef Creations
- Frank's Tanks
- Maxspect
- Puddle Aquatics
- Reed Mariculture (Reef Nutrition)
- Reef eScape
- Supreme Reefs
WAMAS Banner-Only Sponsors
- Bulk Reef Supply
- Cobalt Aquatics
- Coral Candy Aquaculture
- Jellyfish Art
- MASNA
- Two Little Fishies