Here is the provisional schedule of presentations!

Call for Presentations and Posters

24th Annual Regional Aquatics Workshop                                       

June 7^th – 11^th, 2010

DOWNLOAD THE APPLICATION FORM HERE:

Dear Colleague,

The staff of the Omaha Zoo would like to invite you to be an active participant in the 24^th Annual Regional Aquatics Workshop (RAW) hosted by the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska.  We encourage you to share your knowledge with your fellow colleagues by presenting your field of expertise to the group.  Without many opportunities for formal training, public aquarists rely greatly on information sharing within the confines of our small, but highly skilled community to consistently improve our husbandry techniques for the well being of our captive collections. With a large variety of experience levels in attendance, from entry level aquarist to battle tested director, presentations are solicited to cover an array of topics. This year, these are the main topic sections that will be covered:

·          Green practices

·          Population sustainability

·          Interpretation techniques and best practices

·          Climate change

·          Local conservation projects

·          Program animals (best practices, facility design, collection planning, training)

·          Social media

·          Animal, visitor, and staff safety

·          Husbandry and day-to-day management focus (both aquatic and terrestrial based)

The Coral Symposium will be on Friday the 11th. If you would like to submit a paper for this session, use the same form. The topics for the Coral Symposium will run along the same lines as the talks for the main session. Well, we can probably eliminate the enrichment/conditioning.

RAW will kick off this year on Monday June 7^th with a day’s worth of AZA Aquatic TAG and AQIG meetings.  The next three days, June 8^th -10^th, will be paper sessions during which you are given the opportunity to share your new innovation or re-hashed old exploits with your fellows!  The seven sessions planned will have 4-5 selected talks per session, and each talk is limited to a max of twenty minutes.

Interested parties should download, complete and send Presentation / Poster Application form to:

Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo

Attn: Mitch Carl

3701 S. 10^th St.

Omaha, Ne 68107

Or 

Email the completed Presentation / Poster Application form to:

mitchc@omahazoo.com

DOWNLOAD THE APPLICATION FORM HERE:

Deadline for Abstracts: Friday February 19th, 2010