Steve Tyree meeting

[mojoreef]

Alrighty then time to get the ball rolling for the october meeting. Collin and I have already taken care of the flight and accomadations so we are all good thier. Gordon or Steve (not sure who is doing it now) I will post the abstract for the presentation, if you could get this off asap on an envite we can start that operation, and maybe do a reminder ot two prior. Make sure to get the new addy for the BCC.
Alice can you please whip up a flier for the tyree meeting using the abstract below.
Side note I want to call a bod meeting and I think I am going to do it via chat?? i think everyone here has been on chat prior correct??? let me know this way we can make it a quick and dirty meeting.

here is the abstract.
The Biological Light Requirements of Photosynthetic Coral

Many aquarists who have kept and farmed Reef Building Stony Corals have
been
perplexed by how these corals change color under captive lighting.
Historically
the early problems primarily consisted of the corals losing their
colorful
pigmentation.
How reef aquarists solved these early problems is discussed. This
presentation
however is primarily focused on some of the newer types of problems
aquarists are
encountering. For example, corals grown under one type of lighting can
experience
adaptation problems when acclimating them to different types of captive
lighting.
These problems can even occur when corals are moved between 10,000 K
and
20,000 K metal halides of the same wattage. Understanding the different
spectral
outputs from these bulbs is extremely important. There has also been
new
scientific
research identifying at least 6 different classes of coral
pigmentation. How
these
pigments collect light and the type of light they collect is very
wavelength
or color
dependent. Within this discussion some metal halide spectral output
charts
from
Sanjay Joshi will be overlaid with the spectral absorption of the
corals
colorful
pigments. It will become very clear to the aquarist why corals can look
different
under 6,500 K or 10,000 K or 20,000 K types of lighting. The issue is
more
complex
then just PAR intensity. In addition to the corals colorful pigments,
some
exciting
new research has been done on the light collecting pigment complexes
within
the
corals algae. Spectral output charts (Sanjay Joshi) of different light
bulbs
will be
overlaid with the actual light absorption of the algae. Aquarists will
understand
why the relatively low PAR 20,000 K light bulbs actually work so well.
Additionally
reef aquarists will learn why the use of a mix of different light bulb
types
can be
extremely effective.

 

[Wolfesbane]

What time is this meeting going to be? I think this is a good one to advertise in the Datebook in the paper.

Gordon is still doing the E-vites, but I'll be helping with the e-mails.

Gordon: Want to tell me how to access the [email protected] e-mail?

~ Steve

 

[mojoreef]

Not sure yet Steve I will let everyone know asap. Sounds good on the paper. Also if you are doing the emails why dont you send out an email with the link to the schedule, that way folks will know about it.

Mike

 

[Gordo]

Once we get the time decided then I'll send out the Evite.

I will also continue to send out the mass emails. I have my system configured to pull the email addresses from the master membership list so it doesn't take much work to send out the messages.

Steve,
I sent you a PM on sharing the email duties.

 

[Alice]

Will do, Mikey.

 

[mojoreef]

Gordon on the meeting I will just post a new thread here. should be easier as it is just for the folks on the board. Or are you refering to something else????

Mike

 

[Gordo]

I was referring to the PSAS membership list.

 

[Alice]

Colleen, are we in Federal Way or in Bellevue for the October meeting?

And have we decided on a meeting time? 6:30?

 

[jesshimom]

We are in Bellevue.. Community College (not Community Center). Room B-104.

I thought (because I heard... ) meetings were always at 7pm always the third Saturday so that is what I ran with for scheduling. In any event, I booked the room from 6pm to 10pm to allow for setup and cleanup. Mojo said he would take care of all that, setup and cleanup...

 

[mojoreef]

OH yea, lol. Alice how are the fliers coming for the event??

Gordon should we get an envite out now??


Mike

 

[Gordo]

I'll get the invite out in the next couple of days.

 

[mojoreef]

Alright folks just a reminder, the meeting is in 11 days how are we doing on the things that need being done??

MIke

 

[Gordo]

Evite has gone out and I put a post in the PSAS forum.

 

[jesshimom]

What else needs to be done Mike??? I'm going to hound the facilities gal to make sure the projector is there and working... (I'm a little paranoid about that... ) and get some directions for us once we get to the college.... Maybe Jeremy could bring the one he talked about bringing just in case??? Who's on good terms with him to see if he is still willing to do that???

Do we bring drinks there?? It is ok. I have some left if you want.

Other than that, what's the orders from headquarters?

 

[Alice]

If you could all take fliers out, that would be a help. If there is a Petco or aquarium store (FW or SW) near you that is not on our sponsor list or a sponsor of RF, please sweet-talk the owner into letting you post a flier. Veternarians offices and dive-shops might be good, too.

I'll fax or email to the sponsor-stores tomorrow afternoon and post at the Petco, Midway and try a couple of FW stores, the two dive stores and a few vets offices here in my area.

Thanks...there is just no way I can get around to all these place myself right now.

Alice

 

[mojoreef]

Do what you can Alice, its all good.

On the drinks and stuff, we should really make one person incharge of that, is thier any of us that want to take that on? if not we can get one of the vollunteers to step up for it.

Gordon do you think you could throw a call into Jeremy to bring his projector as a backup??? Good work on the envite to, I would send it out one more time say about 4 days prior.

Chuck I know your out thier somewhere, if so can you bring your laptop with you as a back up also.

Steve have you had a chance to send the email linking or providing the over all schedule??

Tyree has some new CD's out from macna, and they are related to the talk, should we try to buy sime for cheap and sell them at the meeting???

This meeting is pretty simple and should go off well, the Novemeber meeting however will entail alot of work so be prepared lol

 

[Wolfesbane]

Did you mean the Evite Mike? If so, Gordon's still doing those. I'm also still working with him to get access to the [email protected] emails.

Can Steve provide copies of the CD or his books at a discount so that we could sell them at the meeting?

~ Steve

 

[mojoreef]

Yea I believe so on the books, not sure yet, I know the members bought a ton last year so I am not sure of the demand but the cd is new so thier might be some want on that.

I was refering to sending an email to all the members showing them the schedule we have so far. Either link them to the thread or copy and paste it.


Mike

 

[MtnDewMan]

[email protected] is only an autoresponder which is housed on Reef Frontiers. Reed has access to view that email in case he needs to respond to anyone in particular. Gordon has a different account I believe where he does the mass emailing from.

I will bring my laptop

 

[jesshimom]

Well Mike if you want drinks and/or snacks I'll just be the one to take care of that. It's easiest because I have the fun fun fun checkbook. Just let me know.

I am concerned about the projector/computer deal.... hopefully we will have a backup projector