On April 22nd 2012 at 2:00pm, OVAS will be holding it’s first Earth Day Event!

Location:
Ben Franklin Place
101 Centrepointe Dr.
Chamber Room

Tickets:
$5 for Members
$10 for Non-Members

Speakers:

Alanna Mitchell (Key note speaker)

Alanna Mitchell is a Canadian author and journalist who writes about global science issues. She specializes in investigating changes to the earth’s life-support systems and travels the world in search of scientists at the centre of what’s going on.

Her first book, Dancing at the Dead Sea: Tracking the World’s Environmental Hotspots, came out in 2004 in Canada and in 2005 in the rest of the English-speaking world, to international praise.

The World Conservation Union (IUCN) and the Reuters Foundation named Mitchell the best environmental journalist in the world in 2000 after an international competition. The prize was a fellowship at Oxford University, which Mitchell took up in the Hilary term of 2002, studying with the eminent ecologist Norman Myers.

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Ret Talbot

Ret writes extensively for and about the marine aquarium industry, which he believes can and should play a leading role in tropical reef conservation. He is the co-author of the forthcoming The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Saltwater Aquarium (December 2008), and he writes a regular column called “Ret Talbot Live! Marine Crossroads: Where Science, Ecology & Hobby Meet” for Microcosm Aquarium Explorer, a website showcasing the work an international team of leading aquarium authors, marine biologists, underwater photographers, and tropical naturalists. Ret is a regular contributor to Tropical Fish Hobbyist, and he is also the feature writer for Marine Fish at Suite101.com, where he has written well over 100 online articles about marine aquarium fish, tropical reef conservation, and marine science. He writes the SaltwaterSense blog at Saltwaterfish.com and, most recently, was invited to write a blog at The Reef Tank dealing with the hobby and the industry behind the hobby.

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