by Jay Hemdal | Nov 11, 2011 | AMAZONAS - Jay Hemdal, CORAL - Jay Hemdal, Freshwater, Marine, New Products
In my constant attempt to produce better images through technology, (rather than trying to improve any talent I might have!) I purchased a Nikon AW100 Coolpix camera. This replaces my Pentax Optio that I wrote about a few years ago. The Nikon is waterproof to 10...
by Jay Hemdal | Apr 3, 2011 | AMAZONAS - Jay Hemdal, CORAL - Jay Hemdal, Freshwater, Marine, News & Notes
I recently re-visited the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago while in town for a meeting. Our group was given a VIP tour of the facility by their staff. It was very interesting for me to return, as I worked at the Shedd from 1985 until 1989. Although I’ve been back...
by Jay Hemdal | Feb 27, 2011 | AMAZONAS - James Lawrence, CORAL - Jay Hemdal, Freshwater, Marine, News & Notes
May 2 – 6 Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center This RAW meeting will likely be the premier event for public aquarists in North America for 2011. http://www.rawconference.org/ History of RAW: The Regional Aquatics Workshop held its first official meeting in...
by Jay Hemdal | Dec 3, 2010 | AMAZONAS - Jay Hemdal, CORAL - Jay Hemdal, Freshwater, Marine
Making the rounds of the interwebs last week was the video from a Charlie Chaplin film from 1928 apparently showing an elderly women walking along talking into a cell phone: Dubbed the “time traveler cell phone”, people seriously feel that this clip shows something...
by Jay Hemdal | Dec 4, 2009 | AMAZONAS - Jay Hemdal, CORAL - Jay Hemdal, Freshwater, Marine
I have been active in various hobbyist forums since I was a Sysop for Compuserve’s FISHNET back in the mid-1980’s. While my posts from that era have evaporated into the ether, some of my more recent posts, (aside from hopefully being more accurate than 25...
by Jay Hemdal | Jul 17, 2009 | AMAZONAS - Jay Hemdal, CORAL - Jay Hemdal, Freshwater, Marine
This installment informally ties together three previous blog entries: photography, fish size estimation and the HLLE project. Much public aquarium work operates in this fashion, many different small topics and projects may be tightly woven together: While attending a...
