Spring Fest Speakers!! Must READ!!!

Sanjay Joshi








Sanjay Joshi in real life is a Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Penn State University. He has been a reef addict since 1992, and currently keeps several reefs aquariums at home including a 500G SPS dominated reef. He also co-manages the 500G aquarium at Penn State.


He has published several articles in magazines such as Marine Fish and Reef Annual, Aquarium Frontiers, Aquarium Fish, and Advanced Aquarist. In addition he has been an invited speaker at several marine aquarium society meetings in the US and Europe. He received the MASNA award in 2006, for his contributions to the marine aquarium hobby.










Mark Vera














Mark Vera has been keeping marine aquariums for 19 years during which he has worked in virtually all capacities of the aquarium industry, collection, import, retail and service. Part of his various personal and public research projects Mark spent two years breeding H. reidi and formerly had the opportunity to serve as President of MOFIB, the Marine Ornamental Fish & Invertebrate Breeders Association. Being an active Divemaster Mark travels extensively diving lakes, rivers, and oceans throughout the world and is a regular aquarium diver at the world’s aquarium, the John G. Shedd Aquarium. Between travels Mark owns and operates a specialty aquarium installation and service company and contributes to C… The Journal of Aquatic Science. Mark is also the creator of the Phyto2 and Zoo2 live plankton product lines and continues research on the value of Plankton in the captive aquarium as well as refugium and natural filtration design.

 

March 26th. There should be a sticky on the top of this forum page with info but I am positive it is the 26th. We are still working on the schedule so that is determining the start time.