We've set the Date!!!  Mark June 8th on your calendars for the 
NYSMEA 2008 Conference.  Final plans are being worked out -
come to our next meeting (below) to assist in the planning!

We will have our usual informative, entertaining, expert speakers,
Luncheon surrounded by magnificent Audubon original prints, 
access to museum exhibits including the great H₂O exhibit,
field trips e.g.. water monitoring, birding, geology across the street 
in Central Park.  Check back to the website for more information
but for right now please download the flyer at
www.NYSMEA.org/con08/flyer2008a.pdf

Print it, Post it - and make copies for your associates.

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The next New York State Marine Education Association Board meeting and
Enrichment Activity ((3 hours,) will be hosted by AREAC at Brooklyn College

Date: Saturday March 29, 2008

Board Meeting: 10:30 – 12 noon     All invited - Become Active!
Room 114 in New Ingersoll Hall

General Meeting: 1-3 pm   Presentation by Professor and founder of
The Aquatic research and Environmental Assessment Center (AREAC)
and tour of their aquaculture facilities. Meet in room 114 in New Ingersoll Hall  

Join NYSMEA in a unique opportunity to meet director and founder Professor Martin P. Schreibman,
of The Aquatic Research and Environmental Assessment Center (AREAC), an affiliate of the Applied
Science Coordinating Institute of CUNY, at Brooklyn College . The Center, now internationally recognized,
is dedicated to basic and applied studies of aquatic organisms and the environments they inhabit. AREAC
is truly a state-of-the-art facility, which excels in its ability to create computer-controlled aquatic ecosystems
with temperatures ranging from near-zero to tropical, salinities from freshwater to hyper-saline, and varying
photoperiods. These systems have been used in research that includes environmental assessment, biomedical
 research, and, in the case of two of our systems (each 2,000 gallons), urban aquaculture.

RSVP: to Merryl Kafka at  MKafka@wcs.org or (718) 265-3452 or (718) 680- 1876
Directions ( http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/pub/travel_directions.htm  )
Enter parking lot through Ave H and Ocean Ave entrance.