Welcome 2009 ORAFS Annual Meeting Attendees!

Sharing Our Passion!
in Bend, Feb 24-27, 2009
2009 Annual Meeting Program
 

Some 200 of us have answered the call to Share Our Passion via workshops and technical presentations, encompassing habitats, fauna, and issues from the ocean floor to headwater streams and the desert beyond.  Although concentrated in Oregon, presentation geography stretches from Alaska to Costa Rica and Amazonia, and east into the Great Lakes.  Many of us will also share creative passions including underwater imagery, music, and energizing the many social events.

The 2009 Annual Meeting program includes a robust variety of opportunities for sharing technical expertise, creativity, wild ideas, and generally networking among colleagues.  It  includes training workshops, a passionate keynote presentation by world famous Fish Worshipper Ray Troll, diverse and relevant technical sessions, poster displays, vendor displays, a student-mentor mixer, awards lunch, banquet, jam session, business meeting, and a post-meeting tour (see other webpages for details).  Your assistance is welcome.  Please review opportunities and make appropriate contacts via the Annual Meeting website at: www.orafs.org.

Come Early, Stay Late

If there’s ever been a meeting worth stretching out, this is it.  The pre-meeting workshops are an incredible value for cutting-edge professional training.  The keynote presentation will “charge our batteries” with piscine passion and fillet away our economic woes.  At the other end, some of our best technical sessions occur Friday morning, including a new session called “Wet-n-Wild Imagery” where some of those great underwater photos and videos you keep hearing about will be on display, with “behind-the-lens” commentary from the photographers.  Many videos promise to be X-rated for fish sex and violence.  And finally, immediately following the meeting is a site visit to Round-Butte Dam where PGE is graciously providing insights to one of the largest fish passage projects ever built, and a free lunch!

Wet-n-Wild

This special session is more creative, but still technical.  It features the coolest underwater photos and video clips around, and behind-the-lens commentary from the photographers.  Photography remains a valuable research and communication tool, and some of our members have captured very impressive images lately.  Come see them, hear how they were made, and renew your own passion for the underwater realm.   To participate with your coolest photos or video clips, even if they are recycled from a different presentation, contact Jeremy@freshwatersillustrated.org.

Also in this session, Ray Troll will describe his encounters with the Vicious Fishes of the Amazon – check out this abstract: 

If you’re interested in weird fish all roads eventually lead to the Amazon, the world’s largest river system and home to well over three thousand species of freshwater fish. The numbers are staggering yet immensely inspirational to artists and scientists alike.

Ray Troll will share artworks he has created after three trips to the Brazilian Amazon including large murals, countless drawings and museum inter-actives created for the Miami Museum of Science’s traveling museum show called Amazon Voyage. Ray’s interest in South American fishes began when he visited the fish collection at Oregon State University and met Paulo Petry. Paulo got Ray’s attention with tales of the dreaded Candiru catfish and the rest is history.

 Registration and lodging rates increase after January 23, so please REGISTER NOW via www.orafs.org!

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