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Fellow Reefkeepers,

www.reefs.org is proud to announce a talk given this Saturday, October 27th. by the world renowned Charles Delbeek.

Charles Delbeek graduated from the University of Toronto in 1981 with an honors bachelor's degree in biology, a master's in zoology in 1985 and a bachelor's in education in1986. After enduring one winter too many in his native Toronto, he moved to Hawaii and took a position with the Waikiki Aquarium in the spring of 1995. He has been caring for marine organisms in closed systems for over 30 years and he currently maintains ten exhibits at the Waikiki Aquarium ranging from a 12 gallon live coral exhibit to a 7000 gallon outdoor Hawaiian live coral and fish exhibit. His professional interests include the captive husbandry of marine fishes, corals, and cephalopods.

A certified SCUBA diver since the age of 14, Charles has made over 300 dives in locations throughout the world including Canada, Fiji, Hawaii, Indonesia, Japan, the Marshall Islands, Palau, the Solomon Islands, the Florida Keys, Bonaire, St. Kitts and St. Maartin.

Charles has lectured at over 40 aquarium-related conferences and meetings, and published approximately 40 articles in the popular aquarium literature in the last 15 years. In addition to writing a monthly reef aquarium column for Aquarium Fish Magazine since 1997, he has co-authored two popular aquarium books with Julian Sprung, The Reef Aquarium published in 1994 and The Reef Aquarium volume 2 published in 1997.


The title of the talk is as follows:

"Coral Spawning in Closed Systems: What's the track record and what are the possibilities? An Informal Discussion with J. Charles Delbeek"

Talk Details:

The talk will commence at 9:00 pm EST. Mr. Delbeek will answer any questions from the audience and we hope to have a lively discussion with reefkeepers about their coral spawns. Charles Delbeeks last chat in #reefs was packed with reefkeepers after a chance to talk 1-on-1 with the co-author of The Reef Aquarium.

To access the chat room see

http://www.reefs.org/access/index.html

For a library of previous talks see:

www.reefs.org/library/

For a calendar of upcoming evens please see:

http://www.reefs.org/cgi-bin/calendar/calendar.pl

Happy reefkeeping and we hope to see you in #reefs this Saturday!

Cheers
James Wiseman
www.reefs.org