90OcReef April 16, 2008 Share April 16, 2008 (edited) Our Annual Spring Seminar Is Approaching Very Quickly! Saturday April 19, 2008 Please join us for this one of a kind event featuring two speakers which have never been to the area before! CMAS is pleased to welcome Mitch Carl of Omaha Zoo and James Fatherree, author of numerous books and articles pertaining to the hobby with his most recent being "Giant Clams in the Sea and Aquarium"! CMAS Presents Mitch Carl Mitch Carl is an aquarium supervisor at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha. Carl has been a major part of an international team of scientists and aquarium specialists to participate in a major effort to establish captive populations of elkhorn coral, using eggs and sperm gathered in the wild. Mitch currently oversees a 26,000 gallon Sulawesi Beach Tank, a 6000 gallon SPS tank and a 2000 gllon Symbiotic tank at Omaha Zoo. Mitch has also developed the zoo's coral propagation program which produces over 1000 frags annually to distribute throughout other zoos and aquariums in the country. Read more about Mitch's Elkhorn Project at "Omaha Zoo has a coral whisperer beside the tanks" Courtesy of Omaha World-Herald CMAS Presents James Fatherree James Fatherree- Instructor, Author, Photographer, Geologist, Soldier. There is not much that this man has not accomplished. Currently he teaches Earth Science, Environmental Science, and Astronomy at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, FL. He has also taught English in Yukuhashi, Japan from 2003-2005. Jim has written numerous books pertaining to the marine aquarium hobby including "Giant Clams in the Sea & Aquarium", and "Do it Yourself Aquariums". He has also wrote articles in Tropical Fish Hobbiest, "C The Journal", Conscientious Aquarist, Aquarium Fish Magazine, plus various others! Jim has taken seemingly millions of pictures since he was first given a camera as a child. Most of his photo skills have been developed just for the fun of it. However, since 1992, over 2000 of Jim's photographs have been published in artistic magazines, aquarium books and magazines, trade journals, corporate newsletters, marketing brochures, and various educational websites. Among all of Jim's accomplishments he also has a Masters Degree in Geology and has been collecting rocks and fossils since he could crawl. Jim has also served in the 20th Army Special Forces Group and shortly after transferred into the Mississippi National Guard. After completing the Army Airbourne course as well as a few other courses, Jim served as a training sergeant, instructor, supply guy, and numerous other things for the same unit. WOW! is all I can say about Jim. It is an honor to have such a person come speak with us on Saturday!! You can read more about Jim on his website "http://www.fatherree.com/james/ Also, Visit this site to see some of Jim's Photographs! <a href="http://www.picsbase.com/james/" target="_blank">http://www.picsbase.com/james/</a> Included with your admission, we will also supply a light breakfast, coffee, water and soft drinks, as well as Lunch to all attendees. CMAS Paid Members: At Door Registration - $25 Non CMAS Members: At Door Registration -$ 35 Vendors: PreRegistration Required - $55 We ask that everyone preregister because we need an accurate head count for the food quantities. 8:30 A.M. - Sign in 9:30 A.M. - Opening and brief meeting business 10:00 A.M. - Mitch Carl 12:00 P.M. - Lunch 1:00 P.M. - James Fatherree 3:00 P.M. - Socializing/Vendor sales 4:00 P.M. - Raffle 4:45 P.M. - Cleanup / Everybody OUT! ** tentative schedule subject to change** Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab in Columbia, MD Directions can be found Here. If you're interested in becoming a vendor please contact Jessica Farace by email 90OcReef@cmas-md.org K6 Kalk Stirrer Donated by Grey Seas Aquatics Icecap 660 Ballast- Donated by Icecapinc.com (2) Replacement RO/DI Filters Donated by SpectraPure $25 Live Aquaria Gift Card 3-Part Reef Additives Donated by DT's Plankton (2) $50 Gift Certificates Donated by Blue Ribbon Koi Reef Additives Donated by Two Little Fishies CorAfix Donated by Two Little Fishies CorAfix Gel Donated by Two Little Fishies ReVive Coral Cleaner Donated by Two Little Fishies 3/4" SeaSwirl Donated by Sea-Swirl.com Misc. Maintenance Equipment Donated by All Glass Aquariums (6) Liquid Calcium 8oz. Donated by All Glass Aquariums (6) Essential Elements 8oz. Donated by All Glass Aquariums (6) Coral Vite 8oz. Donated by All Glass Aquariums (2) Replacement RO/DI Filters Donated by Aqua FX (2) $40 Gift Cards Donated by Atlantis Aquariums.net TBD Donated by Reef Geek.com (1) MACNA Full Conference Pass + 2 Night Stay at the Westin Peachtree Plaza Donated by CMAS-MD.org & AtlantaReefClub.org There are still a handful of donations waiting to be delivered. I will continue to update this over the next few days as they trickle in!! Mods please sticky If anyone has any questions, please feel free to ask!!! -Jess Edited April 16, 2008 by 90OcReef Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YBeNormal April 16, 2008 Share April 16, 2008 Actually, Mitch Carl spoke at our summer meeting in 2007. Still a good lineup though! http://www.wamas.org/forums/index.php?show...p;hl=Mitch+Carl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MikeInFredVA April 16, 2008 Share April 16, 2008 Actually, Mitch Carl spoke at our summer meeting in 2007. Still a good lineup though! http://www.wamas.org/forums/index.php?show...p;hl=Mitch+Carl If i can get a ride I'm gonna be there and join that one too what the H-E-double hocky sticks it's only money, but being in my situation i'll be looking for a ride, which i might be able too fine, if so I'm there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakaufman April 16, 2008 Share April 16, 2008 I'll be going Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
90OcReef April 16, 2008 Author Share April 16, 2008 That sounds wonderful guys! Hope to see you there. Reefgeek has donated a 48" High Output T5 Retrofit Kit Air Water & Ice has donated 4 $25 Gift Certificates -Jess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbartco April 16, 2008 Share April 16, 2008 We can see lots of hard work went into planning this. Plus WOW, look at all those raffle prizes. I wish I could make it out this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
90OcReef April 17, 2008 Author Share April 17, 2008 (edited) EVERYONE SHOULD GO HOME WITH A RAFFLE ITEM!!! Today was a big package day!! MORE RAFFLES MORE RAFFLES! Exotic Aquatics has donated 8 - $25 Gift Certificates Ocean Nutrition has donated Fish & Coral Foods as well as T-shirts DTs Plankton farm has donated 4 Sets of 3-Part Reef Additives Air Water & Ice has donated 4 - $25 Gift Certificates House of Tropicals has donated -- TBD Scales Tropical Fish Warehouse has donated -- TBD The list keeps growing!!!!! -Jess Edited April 17, 2008 by 90OcReef Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
90OcReef April 17, 2008 Author Share April 17, 2008 bump!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
90OcReef April 19, 2008 Author Share April 19, 2008 BUMP!!! Last One!! C'mon out if you get bored tomorrow!! -Jess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHUBAKAH April 20, 2008 Share April 20, 2008 So how was it? Anyone got any feedback? I spent the day in Baltimore with the wife and kid at the aquarium, which by the way I thought was unimpressive, as did my wife. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OUsnakebyte April 20, 2008 Share April 20, 2008 I went today, b/c I enjoy hearing Mitch speak - plus he added things about the 2007 secore workshop, and it was very fun to look back and see the differences. And... he brought me 15 palmata colonies! My mom is in town visiting though, so I needed to leave after his talk - didn't get to stick around for the second. Cheers Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NAGA April 20, 2008 Share April 20, 2008 good speakers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl April 20, 2008 Share April 20, 2008 I'm curious why they charge their members $25 to attend...and when WAMAS has their event's, members get in free!! Why the big difference? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MikeInFredVA April 20, 2008 Share April 20, 2008 I'm curious why they charge their members $25 to attend...and when WAMAS has their event's, members get in free!! Why the big difference? great question Carl waiting on this answer myself. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flowerseller April 20, 2008 Share April 20, 2008 I'm curious why they charge their members $25 to attend...and when WAMAS has their event's, members get in free!! Why the big difference? A 2 speaker meeting with great raffle prizes for $20 is nothing in comparison to what you'll save with the knowledge you can take away. Only difference is you gotta listen with an open mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbartco April 20, 2008 Share April 20, 2008 I'm curious why they charge their members $25 to attend...and when WAMAS has their event's, members get in free!! Why the big difference? When we have had multispeaker events we have charged. They somehow had to pay for speaker travel/lodging. Plus, they have smaller monthly events vs. the quarterly we have. Trust me, it adds up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl April 20, 2008 Share April 20, 2008 (edited) A 2 speaker meeting with great raffle prizes for $20 is nothing in comparison to what you'll save with the knowledge you can take away. Only difference is you gotta listen with an open mind. Of course I agree with you, that the knowledge you get is well worth the $20. But a 2 speaker meeting at WAMAS with great raffle prizes for $0, is $20 better...or in WAMAS terms...a good frag. I am curious...do we WAMAS folks have more volunteers? more $20/year members? (edit) Thanks for the info Doug. Edited April 20, 2008 by Carl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YBeNormal April 20, 2008 Share April 20, 2008 With only four meetings a year, we can afford to pay for the speaker(s), snacks, meeting location and other costs out f club funds. I'm pretty sure we would have to charge just like CMAS if we had more meetings or more speakers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highland Reefer April 20, 2008 Share April 20, 2008 Does anyone know the comparison in active paying member size between CMAS & WAMAS? I'm just curious as to how big CMAS is. Also who has the oldest organizatgion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flowerseller April 20, 2008 Share April 20, 2008 Does anyone know the comparison in active paying member size between CMAS & WAMAS? I'm just curious as to how big CMAS is. Also who has the oldest organizatgion? CMAS was the first Marine enthusiast club in the tri area and quickly became a reef dominated club like most. 5 of us began discussing starting a club and Jim & Janet Skinner were the clubs first president/VP in 92. Our first known speaker was Martin Moe, and maybe still the best one to date given his pioneering into it as a hobby and the amount of info available then. WAMAS is by far a much more active forum and likely has a larger paying membership base. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leishman April 20, 2008 Share April 20, 2008 (edited) Had tix to the Caps game, that comes before any fish meeting. WAMAS got a huge bump due to hosting MACNA, before that CMAS was much more active. Also, several very active CMAS members moved out of the area. Edited April 20, 2008 by Leishman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NAGA April 20, 2008 Share April 20, 2008 having experienced both clubs the WAMAS club has a much larger membership from my understanding. There is a broader participation level in Wamas as compared to CMAS from my observations as well. As far as the forum go the wamas board is a lot more active. The meetings for wamas have a much larger turnout and this may be due in part to the forementioned fact that wamas has quarterly meetings vs. cmas having monthly meetings although they do take the summers off and have tank tours. Again this is just my observations The SMAS club in southern Maryland is also smaller than WAMAS. They do hold their big event every year but, it's still pretty small by comparison to wamas. Their meetings though generally are pretty small but, I will say they are a great group down there. I support them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
90OcReef April 21, 2008 Author Share April 21, 2008 (edited) signed in as Jess Edited April 21, 2008 by 90OcReef Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geofloors April 21, 2008 Share April 21, 2008 The above post was me as I didn't realize I was signed on a Jess. The meeting went very well, didn't have many people show up but we know there was alot of competition for attendance yesterday. Just the way it works out sometimes. CMAS only charges for this 2 speaker event as we have for the past 10 years. We fly in 2 speakers from far distances and usually house the speakers for 2 nights. We pay for several hundred dollars of breakfast, lunch, snacks, and refreshments. This is all paid for by the $20. Believe me, this one event costs the club almost $2000. Luckily we had another huge raffle which helps cut the costs down a bit. We did loose a few vendors this year due to someone here running their mouth but we really don't care. SMMAS also has a symposium they ask a fee to attend as has WAMAS in the past. I am a member of all 3 clubs. We don't ask for money for nonmembers to attend our regular meetings but if you like what we have to offer then please join up and support the club. We try to put on a good show every month from September to May and nothing formal over the summer. This past year most speakers were brought in from west of the Mississippi. Hope some of you might consider attending in the future. George Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl April 21, 2008 Share April 21, 2008 Thanks for the info George. I've been to a few CMAS tank tours, and look forward to attending other CMAS events/socials. -Carl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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