CMAS MEETINGS

Unless noted otherwise, meetings will be held at 1:00 pm in the Schaumburg Library, on the second floor, Rasmussen North (occasionally the meeting will be moved to one of the neighboring rooms). Directions. Future CMAS Meetings Jan 20, 2007 11AM -- Frag. swap and meeting in West Chicago. details Other Future Events 2007 -- IMAC, Chicago. details Past CMAS Meetings and Select International Meetings December 9, 2006 -- field trip to Rod's Reef in DeKalb -- Clowning Around with Rod Buehler!!! details Noverber 18, 2006 -- CMAS elections, CMAS Aquariums. details October 7, 2006, 7pm -- Randy Reed, Giuseppe's. details October 14, 2006, 1-5pm -- CMAS Frag Swap, VFW Hall, 11800 S. Cicero Avenue, ALSIP, IL. details September 16, 2006, 1pm -- Allen LaPointe (Schaumburg lib.) details May, 2006 -- meeting is canceled. April 28-30, 2006 -- IMAC , Chicago. details April, 2006 -- meeting is canceled. Mar. 18, 2006 -- Virtual Tank Tour and discussion. details Feb. 18, 2006 -- Christine Huffard, Cephalopods. details Jan.21, 2006 -- Future of CMAS (request for volunteers). details Dec 10, 2005 -- Frag swap. details Nov 19, 2005 -- Mike King -- Coral Reefs and The Marine Aquarium Hobby. details Nov 18, 2005 -- Open house at Coral Paradise, 7-9pm. details Oct 15, 2005 -- frag demo. details Sept 25, 2005 -- field trip to Shedd. Sept 16-18, 2005 -- MACNA XVII, Washington DC. details Sept. 4, 2005 -- CMAS Picnic hosted by Doug Lehman. details June 24-26, 2005 -- IMAC, Chicago. details May 21, 2005 -- Joe Burger, Lighting. details April 16, 2005 -- Randal Bogathy -- RO/DI systems. details March 26, 2005 -- 2:00 Easter weekend frag and equipment swap details February 26, 2005 -- Jay Cantrell, "An Interactive Indoor Living Reef". details January 15, 2005 -- Swap Meet (special time 2:00 pm). details January 14-16, 2005 -- Our World Underwater, Rosemont Convention Center, IL. December 11, 2004 -- Elections of Officers. Round Table w/ Doug Lehman, Mike Kirda, and T.Sandercock. details November 20, 2004 -- Nominations for CMAS elections plus Fragging Demonstration. details October 16, 2004 -- Mike Kirda and Tom Sandercock on Photography. details September 18, 2004 -- Richard Harker "Lessons From the Natural Reef" as well as updates on his big reef. details September 10-12, 2004, Boston -- MACNA XVI details August 15, 2004 -- Summer picnic at Mike and Marelet Kirda's house. details June 4-6, 2004, Chicago -- IMAC (International Marine Aquarium Conference), details May 15, 2004 -- Field Trip to Inland Aquatics, Terre Haute, Indiana. details April 17, 2004 -- 1:30 pm Coral Frag Swap Meeting details March 20, 2004 -- Lynn Funkhouser / Professional underwater photographer presests "Philippine Potpourri" details February 21, 2004 -- Annual Coral Propagation, a hands-on workshop cutting and gluing coral frags. details January 17, 2004 -- Janet Nestlerode and Beth Hinchey, 20,000 mm below the surface: Living under pressure in Aquarius. details December 13, 2003 -- Annual Swap Meet. details November 15, 2003 -- Field Trip to Shedd. details October 18, 2003 -- Sanjay Joshi/Lighting and Ferdinand Cruz/Net caught fish. details September 20, 2003 -- Mike Kirda/A day in the life of a fish collector. details Sept 5-7 2003 -- MACNA details August 17, 2003 -- Summer picnic at Doug Lehman's (The Presidents house) July 19, 2003 -- Reactor mania day. details May 17, 2003 -- A combo discussion, DVD, and IMAC tape May 2-4, 2003 -- IMAC. details April 19, 2003 -- Kelly Jedlicki/lecture on Puffer care details March 15, 2003 -- field trip to Harbor Aquatics February 2003 -- Swap meet, exchange of frags January 2003 -- Doug Lehman/Building a Calcium Reactor; Tom Sandercock/Great Barrier Reef December 2002 -- Elections, Mike Kirda/His best slides of members tanks November 2002 -- Eric Borneman/Coral Nutrition: Polyps, not Plants October 2002 -- Coral fragging workshop September 2002 -- George Parsons presented the new Shedd Philippines exhibit August 2002 -- tank viewing at Doug Lehman's house July 2002 -- CMAS Picnic at Tom Sandercock's house April 2002 -- swap meet March 2002 -- Mike Kirda/Coralbase February 2002 -- 3rd CMAS Almost Annual Seminar:Dr. Gisele Muller-Parker, Lynn Funkhouser, Dr. Ron Schmick January 2002 -- Coral Propagation Workshop December 2001 -- Tom Sandercock/Natural Light Tank November 2001 -- swap meet October 2001 -- field trip to Brookfield Zoo Aquariums September 2001 -- field trip to APET July 2001 -- CMAS Picnic at Arthur Schattke's house May 2001 -- Swap Meet April 2001 -- Doug Lehman/Tank of the Month; Dave Grganto/Waikiki Aquarium March 2001 -- Richard Harker/2000 Gallon Aquarium + Fish Behavior in the Wild February 2001 -- Kevin Novak/Filtration, Tom Sandercock/Tank of the Month January 2001 -- Coral Propagation Workshop December 2000 -- CMAS elections November 2000 -- Swap Meet October 2000 -- John Brandt/Presentation given to Coral Reef Task Force in Samoa September 2000 -- Field trip to Shedd/Planning the Philippines Exhibit Summer 2000 -- CMAS Picnic at Carl Schattke's house May 20, 2000 -- 2nd CMAS Almost Annual Seminar: Julian Sprung, Larry Jackson, Morgan Lidster, Richard Harker April 8, 2000 -- Mike Sergey (owner of Living Sea)/Acclimating Fish, Trip to Fiji March 11, 2000 -- field trip to Harbor Aquatics March 19, 2000 -- first CMAS Tank Tour, Carl Schattke's house February 15, 2000 -- Special night at Tropi_Quatics Pet Center February 12, 2000 -- Swap Meet January 8, 2000 -- John Brandt and Dennis Gallagher/Protein Skimmers, Ray Dion/Tube Bending December 1999 -- CMAS Christmas Party at Shaw's Crab House November 1999 -- ? October 1999 -- ? September 1999 -- ? May 1999 -- George Parsons/Clownfish and Anemones April 1999 -- field trip to Inland Aquatics March 1999 -- John Cummings/Trip to Solomon Islands February 20, 1999 -- Midwest Marine Aquarium Seminar: Scott Michael, Mike Paletta, Ron Shimek, and Lynn Funkhouser Home