CMAS (Chicago) this Saturday: Sanjay Joshi on Lighting & FerdinandCruz on Net Caught FIsh

Chicagoland Marine Aquarium Society (CMAS) is proud to announce a
special double bill for our October 18th meeting (this Saturday!). First
up will be Sanjay Joshi, speaking on lighting in the reef aquarium.
Second up will be Ferdinand Cruz, speaking on Industry reform issues in
the Philippines. Sanjay's talk will begin promptly at 1pm and Ferdinand
will speak at 3pm. Presentations will be an hour and a half with time
after that for questions--please be on time so we can keep to our
schedule! The room will be open at 12:30 for anyone who wants time to
chat, trade frags, etc. Note that there will be a $5.00 donation
requested from non-members for this event. The meeting will be held at
the Schaumburg Public Library, as usual.

***Sanjay Joshi--Metal halide Lighting: Recent Results on Lamps and
Reflectors***
Sanjay Joshi is currently professor of Industrial and Manufacturing
Engineering at Penn State University. He has been a reef addict since
1992, and currently keeps 3 reefs at home 55G, 60G and a 180G SPS
dominated reef. In addition he co-manages the 500G aquarium at Penn
State. He has published several articles in magazines such as Marine
Fish and Reef Annual, and Aquarium Frontiers, Aquarium Fish Monthly, and
been an invited speaker at several marine aquarium society meetings.

***Ferdinand Cruz--Legitimizing ornamental fish collection in the
Philippines: Aiming towards a Community-based approach"***
Ferdinand Cruz is visiting from the Philippines to talk about his
community development work. He is working with divers and their villages
to assure net caught fish.

All our meetings, except for Special Events, are held at the Schaumburg
Library. We meet in the Rasmussen Room North, on the second floor, at
1:00pm, unless otherwise noted. More information and directions to the
Library are on the CMAS web site:
http://www.cmas.net