Official Event Thread 2020

[scavdog]

2020 is upon us and we would love to hear from the membership (and non-members) what YOU want to see for events this year.

Your opinion counts! So whether new or existing member, please weigh in!

The 2020 BOD is planning some awesome speaker engagements, as well as:

• Behind the scenes of the New England Aquarium and / or Atlantis Marine World (AKA Long Island Aquarium)
• OSA Aquaculture Facilities Tour
• Annual "Fragtastic Frag Show"
• Annual (Awesome) Auction
• Regional Tank Tours

Let's make 2020 awesome! Not a member paid member??? Upgrade your account!

 

[scavdog]

Regarding Speakers:

Did you know that as a MASNA Sponsored club we are eligible for subsidies that will help assist in hosting the following speakers?:

Ret Talbot

Charles Delbeek

Tony Vargas

Sanjay Joshi

Robert Fenner

Mitch Carl

John Coppolino

Charles Mazel

Janet Nestlerode

Mike Paletta

Matthew Palmtag

Ron Shimek

Rob Toonen

Myron Roth

Dana Riddle

Matt Wittenrich

Terry Siegel

Mark Callahan

Andy Rhyne

Frank Baensch

Kevin Kohen

Bruce Carlson

Scott Michael

Martin Moe

Julian Sprung

Tal Sweet

Marc Levenson

Paul Whitby

Tom Lang

Elizabeth Hinchey

Adam Blundell

Joe Yaiullo

Sandra Shoup

Butch Ringelspaugh

Richard Ross

Murray Camp

Todd Gardner

James Fatherree

Kevin Erickson

Craig Bingman

 

[Cpage101]

Wow this is an amazing cast of speakers looking forward to 2020!

 

[scavdog]

Guys, I can start a poll. However I would love to hear if there is anyone in particular you might want us to look into.

 

[Cpage101]

richard ross and Sanjay would be pretty cool Marc Levarson is pretty popular on utube these days

 

[iKenreef]

Sanjay, Paletta, Sprung. To start.

 

[NHreefer]

Amazing how far this group has come. Awesome. !

 

[BiGGiePauls33]

2020 is upon us and we would love to hear from the membership (and non-members) what YOU want to see for events this year.

Your opinion counts! So whether new or existing member, please weigh in!

The 2020 BOD is planning some awesome speaker engagements, as well as:

• Behind the scenes of the New England Aquarium and / or Atlantis Marine World (AKA Long Island Aquarium)
• OSA Aquaculture Facilities Tour
• Annual "Fragtastic Frag Show"
• Annual (Awesome) Auction
• Regional Tank Tours

Let's make 2020 awesome! Not a member paid member??? Upgrade your account!

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[TJ Reefer]

I would love the New England Aquarium tour. Long Island is farther than I want to travel for a day trip.

 

[afboundguy]

Love to see that the club is making a push to bring in more speakers. This is what your membership funds and the auction funds go to. As a past president of the club I can attest to how much work goes into bringing in a speaker for a meeting. Definitely worth it and makes for an awesome meeting. Hopefully I'll be on a new schedule in July and have weekends off so I can make it to meetings again!!!

 

[RogerO]

What about tank tours like the old good days.

 

[scavdog]

What about tank tours like the old good days.

Absolutely Roger! That's certainly going to be part of the BOD agenda on the 25th. Heck, with a lack of January meeting, I'd think out would be a cool get together this month.

 

[FREAKINRICAN69]

I'm in like Flynn as long as the dates are manageable. Maybe we could make a party bus to go to LI. LOL

 

[FishieBusiness]

I would love the New England Aquarium tour. Long Island is farther than I want to travel for a day trip.

+1 on both NEA and LIA

 

[scavdog]

Marc Levenson is ready to book his flight and Joe Y of Atlantis said he'd be happy to give the club a behind the scenes tour along with potential hotel discounts if we want to make a weekend out of it. He's been known to allow people to dive in his 20k gallon reef from time to time .

If there are any NEAQ employees out there, I could use to refresh my contacts list.

More to come!

 

[Phinfan]

+1 on both NEA and LIA

 

[Greg Hiller]

I would like to hear Sanjay if he's willing to come out. I'd really like to hear his take in general on LED. Cut through the BS and get to the science.

 

[reefkeeper2]

I second Sanjay. I watched one of the vids of his tank on youtube and I think I heard him say he runs all the channels on his radions at full power. I can't find it again and I'm wondering if that's true.

 

[scavdog]

Good news. Sanjay is officially excited to visit the club. Within a few weeks, the BOD will have the entire year laid out. This will include dates and venues so you can plan wayy in advance to make an event.

Cheers

Joe

 

[FishieBusiness]

This is going to be a great year for the club!!!!! Thanks to all the hard working officers of the club. We greatly appreciate all that you people do for us.