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We are excited to bring a powerful speaker lineup up with us to NY. With 3 amazing speakers over the 2 days, your certainly going to want to make sure you schedule your time accordingly.

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Jake Adams is a professional marine aquarist from Colorado, reef aquarium author & speaker, and best know as the senior editor of the popular reef aquarium blog, Reef Builders. Jake has a Bachelor?s degree in Marine Science and he has research experience with spawning corals in the Caribbean.

Jake has consulted on the design and installation of jumbo reef tanks, retail stores , aquaculture, mariculture and research aquaria. When he isn?t speaking to reef clubs or writing for marine aquarium publications, Jake also likes to enjoy freshwater fish & planted aquaria.
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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.

Dr. Joshi is actively involved in educating the hobby on various topics such as lighting, aquarium system design and general reef husbandry through his publications in reef magazines and lectures. He has published articles in magazines such as Advanced Aquarist, Reefs Magazine, Coral, Marine Fish and Reef Annual, Aquarium Frontiers, and Aquarium Fish.
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Michael Paletta?s actual career is working in genomics in breast and colon cancer for Genomic Health. He has been an avid reef keeper since 1984. He has kept personal reef aquaria ranging in size from 20 gallons to 1200 gallons and has helped set and build other reef aquaria up to 4,000 gallons in size. He currently maintains several reef aquaria including a 300 gallon sps dominated tank and a 75 lps tank. He has also consulted for The National Aquarium in Baltimore as well the Pittsburgh Zoo and Aquarium.

Michael has published over 100 articles on various aspects of reef keeping in SeaScope, Aquarium Fish Magazine, FAMA, Practical Fishkeeping, and Coral Magazine. He has also published two books: The New Marine Aquarium and Ultimate Reefs. Michael has been invited to speak at various venues around the world and across the country and has given over 200 such talks.
 

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Not sure if I can make it yet. Need to convince the wife. :)

Let's see, I have been pushing myself really hard and have had a pretty stressful year so far, I could use a break. So I will be trying hard to convince the wife!
 

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We are extremely excited about the amazing speaker line up for New York! We will be starting it off with Jake Adams at 1pm on Saturday. He will be talking about his personal experiences of traveling & diving abroad. ?#?jakeadams? ?#?reefbuilders? Sanjay Joshi will be giving his talk at 3pm on Saturday. Your not going to want to miss the recap of his historic adventures in Reef Keeping! ?#?sanjayjoshi? Michael Paletta will enlighten the massed on Sunday at 12:30PM when he gives his talk. Be sure to grab a seat to hear about a great topic we can all can enjoy. ?#?michaelpaletta? ?#?reefapaloozany? ?#?reefapalooza?
 

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Not sure if I can make it yet. Need to convince the wife. :)

Let's see, I have been pushing myself really hard and have had a pretty stressful year so far, I could use a break. So I will be trying hard to convince the wife!
Good luck with that, you and your reef deserve it, at least to listen to the speakers and meet fellow reefers. Don't have to spend money, its just hard not to.


This is second year & again my wife is out of town. Not like she would care anyway.
 

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Hobe Sound Frags will be returning to NY with lots of amazing stuff(booth [HASHTAG]#410[/HASHTAG]) HSF specializes in coral propagation. They are enthusiastic exhibitors at many frag swaps, reef keeping events, shows and conferences in their home state of Florida and elsewhere. They have also been involved as a speaker/presenters for conservation, education, and other community events. Be sure to stop by to check them out!
 

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