Steinhart presentation October 13th

[bookfish]

BAR will host a presentation by the Steinhart Aquarium on Saturday, October 13th.
The meeting will be at ASAP (http://www.bareefers.org/public/ASAP%20Directions.aspx) and will begin at 1pm.
Hope to see you all there!-Jim

[blink*]

Cool! What's the topic?

[Mr. Ugly]

The new Steinhart dealio, I believe

[bookfish]

A major component of the Steinhart Aquarium's $450 million renovation in Golden Gate Park is a 200,000 gallon living coral reef tank and shark lagoon. This represents the largest living coral reef undertaken in this hempisphere, and the deepest in the world. Steinhart biologist Matt Wandell will give us a behind the scenes look at the design and construction of this unique exhibit due to open in late 2008

[blink*]

I'm so there.

[only4fudge]

Nice! Any information on when to expect the completed construction?

[bookfish]

Originally posted by bookfish
A major component of the Steinhart Aquarium's $450 million renovation in Golden Gate Park is a 200,000 gallon living coral reef tank and shark lagoon. This represents the largest living coral reef undertaken in this hempisphere, and the deepest in the world. Steinhart biologist Matt Wandell will give us a behind the scenes look at the design and construction of this unique exhibit due to open in late 2008

[juaninsac]

The tentative scheduled opening date is late September 2008.

[jjkief86]

Do you have to be a BAR member to attend?

[Mr. Ugly]

The October meeting is open to the general public.

Come on over

[bookfish]

Originally posted by jjkief86
Do you have to be a BAR member to attend?

But if you are, attendance would qualify you for the February swap!

[Rekonn]

I created a BAR account on 9/23. Just tried to login, and it says "Your account is still awaiting admin approval." How long does approval take?

[Mr. Ugly]

You created a forum login?

Did you also fill out the info and Paypal as described here:

http://www.bareefers.org/public/memb...newmember=True

The new account doesn't get activated until we get the Paypal notification.

[Rekonn]

Just figured out that account creation and forum registration weren't the same thing last night, whoops. Paypal now sent.

[earthboy17]

I'm looking forward to this meeting. Although I 'sat-in' on the August swap, this will be my first official meeting. How long do they usually last?

I have class until 3:30 in Menlo Park, and I was REALLY hoping to catch the last 1/2. Anyone with a guess on how long they go for?

THanks,
Tom

[Mr. Ugly]

Hi Tom,

I'm guessing that we'll be wrapping up around 3pm.

See you on Saturday!

[Thales]

Some new from the aquarium:

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?sec...t_7&id=5689657

If you look carefully, you can see Matt a bunch of times!

[juaninsac]

Originally posted by Thales
Some new from the aquarium:

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?sec...t_7&id=5689657

If you look carefully, you can see Matt a bunch of times!

Please don't look carefully.

[Lordhelmet]

[Mr. Ugly]

Thank you to all that attended the Steinhart presentation. That was a very nice turnout!

Thanks to Matt for taking the time to give us the virtual tour and answer all our questions on the new aquarium facilities.

Much appreciation to the BOD for making this meeting happen. And special thanks to our sponsors* for supporting our club with the awesome raffle items.


*
Amazon Aquarium/Justin(viper930)
Aquatic Gallery/Dr. Le
Dolphin Pet Village/Tyler
Lucky Ocean/Steve
New Alameda/Steve
Ocean Treasures/Justin
Spectrapure
Aquatic Specialties and Pets/Bob and Robert

Also, thanks to BAR member - Wayland, for the frag pack donation to the raffle! Thoughtful *and* generous