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| Monday, April 21 | TAG Meetings being held in First Floor Auditorium |
| 8:00 - 8:05 | Welcome |
| 8:05 - 9:00 | Coral CAP |
| 9:00 - 10:00 | AITAG |
| 10:00 -10:30 | Break |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | WCMC Update |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | FFTAG |
| 12:30 - 2:00 | Lunch |
| TAG Meetings Moved to Daniels Hall on the 5th Floor | |
| 2:00 - 3:00 | FFTAG Continued |
| 3:00 - 5:00 | MFTAG |
| 5:00 - 8:00 | Dinner on your own |
| 8:00 - 10:00 | Kick Off Event at Front Street Brewery; Desserts and Drinks |
| Sponsored by Piscene Energetics | |
| Tuesday, April 22 | Propagation/Conservation/Collecting: Happy Earth Day |
| 8:00 - 8:10 | Hap Fatzinger; Welcome and Introduction |
| 8:10- 8:35 | Animal Professionals |
| 8:35 - 9:00 | Mark Dvornak - Shark Ray Breeding; Instructions Not Included |
| 9:00 - 9:25 | Jordan Salyers - Makin' Babies; Captive Rearing of Echinoderms |
| 9:25 - 9:50 | Matt Ferroni - From Egg to Bay; Horseshoe Crab Head - Start Program |
| 9:50 - 9:55 | Aqua Logic |
| 9:55 - 10:20 | Break |
| 10:20 - 10:25 | Dynasty Marine |
| 10:25 - 10:50 | Aaron Jeskie - Catching Lighting in a Jar; Preliminary Success of Breeding Pomacanthus sp. |
| 10:50 - 11:15 | Matthew Dawson - Conditions for Captive Spawning of the French Grunt - Haemulon flavolineatum |
| 11:15 - 11:40 | John Than - Asexual Propagation of Acropora cervicornis |
| 11:50 - 1:20 | Lunch Professional Development Session (Lunch Provided) |
| 1:25 - 1:30 | Cairns Marine |
| 1:30 - 1:55 | João Correia - São Tomé and Príncipe – The West-African Opportunity |
| 1:55 - 2:20 | Frank Young - Collection and Acclimation of Deep Water Teleosts Without Ever Getting Wet….Almost |
| 2:20 - 2:45 | Bob Snowden - Life History and Spawning of Grooved Brain Coral -Diploria labyrinthiformis |
| 2:45 - 2:50 | Carib Sea, INC |
| 2:50 - 3:15 | Break |
| 3:15 - 3:20 | Pentair Aquatic Ecosystems |
| 3:20 - 3:45 | Grant Anderson - Breaking the Norm: Do Public Aquarium Live Coral Exhibits Grow Under Cannon Type LEDs? |
| 3:45 - 4:10 | Lyle Squire - Displaying the Sexy Beast; Collection and Transport of Large Carcharhinus albimarginatus |
| 4:10 - 4:35 | Margarida Ferreira - How Enriched Artemia Nauplii Influence the Development of Phyllorhiza punctata |
| 4:35 - 5:00 | Laura Simmons - Supply Chains Defined |
| 6:00 - 9:00 | Ice Breaker along Cape Fear River |
| Sponsored by Dynasty Marine and Cairns Marine |
| Wednesday, April 23 | Veterinary Session |
| 8:00 - 8:05 | Morning Update |
| 8:05 - 8:10 | Red Sea North America |
| 8:10 - 8:25 | Dr. Shane Boylan - Discospondylitis in a Green Moray Eel (Gymnothorax funebris) |
| 8:25 - 8:40 | Dr. Kate Medl Bailey - Fish Anesthesia Without MS-222 |
| 8:40 - 8:55 | Dr. Gregory Lewbart - Public Display of Aquatic Invertebrates; Medical Advances |
| 8:55 - 9:10 | Dr. Craig Harms - Voriconizole Toxicity in African Penguins - Spheniscus demersus |
| 9:10 - 9:15 | Quality Marine |
| 9:15 - 9:40 | Break |
| 9:40 - 9:45 | McRoberts Sales Co., INC |
| 9:45 - 10:00 | Dr. Emily Christiansen - A Customized 3D Splint for a Green Sea Turtle Flipper Fracture |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Dr. Cara Field - Whole Blood Transfusion in a Cownose Ray - Rhinoptera bonasus |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Dr. Robert George - Common Causes for Mortality Events in Captive Sand Tiger Sharks - Carcharias taurus |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Dr. Kat Hadfield - Successful Treatment of Neobenedenia Monogeneans During Quarantine |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Dr. Michael Stoskopf - Metabolomics in Fish Health Management |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | STUMP THE CHUMP / Questions from Your Facility / Q & A |
| 12:30 - 1:00 | Board Busses for Beach Activities/Lunch Provided |
| 1:30 - 4:30 | Beach Day and Aquarist Olympics |
| Sponsored by McRoberts Sales CO. and Hayward Flow Control | |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | Board Busses for Aquarium Event |
| 5:00 - 10:00 | Cocktails and Dinner at Aquarium |
| Sponsored by New Era, Living Color and Red Sea | |
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Busses Leave Aquarium back to Hotel |
| Thursday, April 24 | Animal Training |
| 8:00 - 8:05 | Morning Update |
| 8:05 - 8:10 | Living Color Enterprises, Inc. |
| 8:10 - 8:35 | Nicole Leier - Using Behavioral Training Techniques to Capture Elasmobranchs |
| 8:35 - 8:50 | Amy Reierson - Training, Capture and Transport of the Goliath Grouper - Epinephelus itijara |
| 8:50 - 9:15 | Greg Barord - Can You Teach a Nautilus New Tricks? |
| 9:15 - 9:35 | Erin Patel - Training of Marine Eels; How to Make Feeding Easier |
| 9:35 - 9:40 | Piscene Energetics |
| 9:40 - 10:05 | Break |
| 10:05 - 10:10 | Ecoxotic |
| Exhibitry/Animal Health/Quarantine | |
| 10:10 - 10:35 | Heather Broadhurst - Attempted Treatments for Eimeria southwelli in Cownose Rays - Rhinoptera bonasus |
| 10:35 - 11:05 | Stacy Knight - Evidence for Change to Long Term Formalin Treatment Protocols |
| 11:05 - 11:30 | Marj Awai - Aulani; Marine Teleost Quarantine; Part Deux |
| 11:30 - 11:35 | Reed Mariculture |
| 11:40 - 1:10 | Lunch Professional Development Session (Lunch Provided) |
| Sponsored by AZA | |
| 1:20 - 2:10 | RAW Business Meeting / Bid for RAW 2016 |
| 2:10 -2:15 | Brightwell Aquatics |
| 2:15 - 2:40 | Amanda Pedigo - How Water Quality Influences the Captive Husbandry or Hellbenders |
| 2:40 - 3:05 | Mary McCarthy and Julie Levans- A Survey of Voltage in Aquaria Housing Elasmobranchs |
| 3:05 - 3:10 | Hayward Flow Control |
| 3:10 - 3:35 | Break |
| 3:35 - 3:40 | YSI/Xylem |
| 3:40 - 4:05 | Julianne Steers - Incorporating Learning Laboratories on Floating Docks |
| 4:05 - 4:30 | Andrew Rhyne - Artemia Culture Methods - Review and Update |
| 4:30 - 4:55 | Elizabeth Schneble - Pest Management in a Semi-open Fresh Water, Multi-taxa Exhibit |
| 4:55 - 8:00 | Dinner on your own |
| 8:00 - 11:00 | Fondue and Home Brew at The Little Dipper |
| Sponsored by Quality Marine | |
| Friday, April 25 | Collecting and Managing Your Collection |
| 8:00 - 8:05 | Morning Update |
| 8:05 - 8:10 | New Era Aquaculture, INC. |
| 8:10 - 8:35 | Elizabeth Hann - The Collection and Husbandry of Mahi Mahi - Coryphaena hippurus |
| 8:35 - 9:00 | Tim Carpenter - Rockfish Eye Surgery; New Techniques in Prosthetics |
| 9:00 - 9:25 | Steve Yong - Managing Mycobacterium in Syngnathid Systems |
| 9:25 - 9:30 | Reef Brite |
| 9:30 - 9:55 | Break |
| 9:55 - 10:00 | Living Color Supply and Maintenance |
| 10:00 - 10:25 | Christian Legner - Rehabilitation of a Sea Turtle with Serious Skull Fracture |
| 10:25 - 10:50 | Kelli Cadenas - Majano Anemone Infestation and Control |
| 10:50 - 11:15 | Vincent Levesque - The Jack Track; A Fish Transportation System |
| 11:15 - 11:40 | Alicia Bitondo - Advances in the Collection and Display of Deep-Sea Cephalopods |
| 11:40 - 12:05 | Jackie Cooper - Changing Feeding Strategies in a Large Multi-Species Exhibit |
| 12:05- 12:15 | Hap Fatzinger; Closing Remarks/Updates |
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Dear Colleague,
The staff of the North Carolina Aquariums invites you to be an active participant in the 28th Annual Regional Aquatics Workshop (RAW) hosted by the North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher, located in Kure Beach, NC. We encourage you to share your knowledge with your 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. Program session topics may include but are not limited to the following:
Conservation and Education · Exhibit and Life Support System Design · Legislation and Permitting · Collection, Acclimation and Quarantine · Nutrition and Feeding · Captive Behavior · Record Keeping · Reproduction · Veterinary Care · Water Quality Management · Enrichment – and a Back to Basics session where you can give us an overview of everyday husbandry techniques that you have found works best for you over the years.
RAW will kick off this year on Monday, April 21 with a day’s worth of AZA Aquatic (TAG) meetings. The next four days, April 22 – 25, will be paper sessions, during which you are given the opportunity to share new innovation or re-hashed old exploits with your fellow colleagues. There are nine sessions planned with 4-5 selected talks per session, each talk is limited to a max of (20) minutes. If you need more incentive to whet your appetite for RAW 2014, see Registration Form for more details of the conference.
Presentation Abstract Submission: 
Call for Papers and Posters:
Poster Guidelines:
Email the completed Presentation / Poster Application form to:
RAW@ncaquariums.com
Deadline for Abstracts: Friday February 7th, 2014
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