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Join the New England Aquarium Dive Club for a day seeking
right whales, humpback whales and Atlantic white-sided dolphins on Stellwagen Bank. Knowledgeable and enthusiastic naturalists will be on board to identify and provide information on the species we see.
The Whale Watch is Saturday, May 17, 2014
MEET at 9:30am. The Boat departs at 10:00 am, returns about 1:00pm
Tickets prices are $37.02 for Adults and $28.35 for Children (Ages 3-11) -
Children must be at least 3 yrs. old, 30" tall and must be paid with reservation.
View the flyer for all the information, and contact Uma with any questions or to sign up.
The dive club will have a booth set up at the Sea Rovers clinic on March 8-9. Stop by the table and say hi!
We are planning a dinner at at local restaurant. Email John, or stop by the booth for the details.
We are looking for some volunteers to help out with the NEADC booth. You get to help introduce the club to new divers and it's a great way to meet other members! Contact Tiffany to sign up.
Join us at the The Times Irish Pub prior to the General Meetings at 5:30-6:30pm for drinks, appetizers, dinner or to just say hi..
The Times is located at:
112 Broad Street
Boston, MA 02110
These get-togethers are meant to help answer questions and talk with new or less active members. We’ll tell you about the latest club news and hear about your interests in diving.
If you are an active member, please come out and help us greet people.
Hope to see you there!
The location is determined by the board earlier that day. Watch the website, Facebook or twitter for updates!
View a map of the area
View the Flyer!
March 15th to 21st, 2014: We are chartering the Dolphin Dream leaving from West Palm Beach for a 7 day, 6 night trip. We will be visiting Tiger Beach, known for tiger and lemon sharks, playing with spotted dolphins and diving various other sites including hotspots for great hammerhead sharks. A number of us in the club have been on this fantastic trip in the past with Jonathan Bird and thought it would make a great club trip!
This is a very reasonable liveaboard with inexpensive airfare to Florida. Rates for the week are $1834 per person and includes all diving and meals onboard the boat. It does not include airfare/transfer. While this trip is mainly for divers, snorkelers would also enjoy the time with the dolphins.
 Please contact Joy with any questions about the trip. A deposit is required to hold your place. This trip will fill quickly, so please email programs@neadc.org for more details and deposit information.
Full details on the trip on the Dive Travel page.
We are gearing up for the Great Annual Fish Count early this year. There are several opportunities to learn New England Fish ID, and we are proud to bw announcing a new invertebrate section to the program!
In case you can't make any of those events, we now offer an online version of Bob Michelson's Fish ID course. Using the same material that Bob shows, this online slideshow tells you what to look characteristics to look for to identify each fish. It is available at http://www.neadc.org/fishid/
- North Shore Frogmen (03/06) -
Speaker: Janna Nichols - Reef Presentation
Northshore Frogmen website
- 60th Annual Boston Sea Rovers Clinic (3/7-3/9)
Seminars, workshops, a film festival
Sea Rovers Website
- Metrowest Dive Club Meeting (03/11) - Bob Michelson REEF Project update and basic fish ID
MWDC website
- Aquarium Behind the Scenes Tour (03/12/14) - Members only event.
RSVP Required: email programs@neadc.org if you will be attending
- Metrowest Dive Club Meeting (04/08) - MWDC Round Table - Dive Travel Issues
MWDC website
- NEADC General Meeting (04/16/14) - Speaker: Les Kaufman - You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet: Recreational Divers as Key And Knowing Witnesses to Global Weirdness
- North Shore Frogmen (04/27) - Annual Easter Egg Hunt
NSF's Annual Easter Egg Hunt Dive and post dive party. We will meet at Stage Fort Park at 10am for the Egg Hunt Dive! Prizes for the most eggs. The Easter Bunny will be diving also!
Northshore Frogmen website
- DUI Demo Tour (05/09)
Drysuit Demos!
More info at DUI's Website
- NEADC Whale Watch (05/17/14)
View the flyer or email vicepresident@neadc.org for more info
- Great Annual Fish Count (07/26/14)
Our annual event where divers count fish for REEF, then have a huge cookout afterwards! Raffle prizes, touch tank, and more!
More info
- Tropical Fish Rescue 2014 (09/20/14)
Rain Date 9/27/14
See tropical fish without leaving New England! Every year juvenile fish ride the gulf stream north, and can be regularly seen in our waters. Many divers collect fish for their own aquariums, but it's a great chance to see some new fish. Plus we have a cookout between dives.
More info
- Harpoon Brewery Tour (Fall 2014)
Members only event, stay tuned
for more details!
Email newsletter@neadc.org for more info
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Speaker schedule is subject to change without notice
Wednesday, March 12th, 2014, 6:30 pm.
(Note, this is not the third Wednesday of the month)
Behind the Scenes Tour at the Aquarium - Members only event
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Don't miss out on our annual Behind the Scenes tour of the NEAq!
Each year we are lucky to have a unique experience as the Aquarium opens to just us! Join us for tours of some of the galleries, learn about some of the new exhibits and the updates to the GOT.
Due to limited space, this event does require pre-registration.
Watch the website for times. Please RSVP to programs@neadc.org if you will be attending. The date is March 12, 2014 (one week earlier than the normal monthly meeting).
Wednesday, April 16th, 2014, 6:30 pm.
Les Kaufman - You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet: Recreational Divers as Key And Knowing Witnesses to Global Weirdness
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Climate change, overfishing, and pollution have placed the ocean under siege, but much of the recreational dive industry is in total denial. Rather than dwell on the obvious downers, Les will highlight the ocean's extraordinary resilience with examples from the tropical Pacific and Caribbean, reveal startling new discoveries from Brazil, and task the NEADC with a mission of outreach and healing in concert with their host institution's pioneering efforts around the world.
Dr. Les Kaufman is Professor of Biology in the Boston University Marine Program, Research Scholar at The New England Aquarium, and Marine Conservation Fellow with Conservation International. He is a naturalist by avocation and a marine biologist professionally, with interests in evolution, community ecology, conservation, and fisheries. Les works mostly on coral reefs and great lakes, and the ways they respond to climate change and local human impacts. Known for humorous and richly illustrated but hard-hitting public lectures, he also writes popular books, magazine articles and television such as for NOVA and National Geographic, and appears frequently in the media. He enjoys teaching field courses in Massachusetts and Belize for the BU Marine Program, as well as core interdisciplinary courses for BU’s Kilachand Honors College. An avid diver for nearly 40 years, Les has worked underwater from Newfoundland to Brazil and Indonesia to the Grenadines, including several stints in US saturation habitats, and currently chairs Boston University’s Dive Control Board.
Les’ research is about the development of a new science of coupled human and natural systems. He studies social-ecological systems as far flung as Massachusetts Bay, coastal Brazil, Lake Victoria East Africa, and the Great Lake Tonle Sap in Cambodia. He has been working in the Mass Bay—Stellwagen Bank area for 31 years, mostly related to biodiversity, fish biology, food web dynamics and fisheries science. Les recently led the largest ever, global social and natural science study of tropical marine management areas (see products at http://www.science2action.org/). He currently leads a team creating a computational dynamic model of ecosystem service trade-offs, and a management decision tool based on it, to assist implementation of the Massachusetts Oceans Act of 2008. His present diving-based projects include a study of coral recovery dynamics in Florida and Belize, and climate change impacts on the reefs of coastal Brazil. At home in Massachusetts, Les enjoys collaborative research with fishermen and local coastal stakeholders.
Les’ wife Jackie Liederman is a beloved Professor of Psychology at BU and they have a grown son Justin who works in the software industry with a special interest in new tools for disabled access to information technology. Les was awarded the first Pew Fellowship for marine conservation in 1990, and the 2011 Parker-Gentry Award for Conservation Biology from the Chicago Field Museum. Whenever possible Les is outdoors fishing, hiking, bird-watching, or diving. Full-time at NEAq from 1983-1994, Les is still an active member of the New England Aquarium staff. Most recently, he assisted with renovation of the Giant Ocean Tank, where he is occasionally sighted testing toys and tormenting turtles
Wednesday, May 21th, 2014, 6:30 pm.
Ted Maney The new REEF invertabrate ID program.
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This new program will includes natives as well as some invasives.
Wednesday, June 18th, 2014, 6:30 pm.
TBA
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2014, 6:30 pm.
Bob Michelson: New England Fish ID
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In preparation for the GAFC, Bob Michelson will give a presentation on identifying local fish species, and reporting survey information to REEF. Participants of this workshop will learn how to use the REEF Environmental Education Foundation's Northeast Fish Identification Program. This photography based curriculum teaches how to identify common species of local finfish by using photography as the teaching tool. The program shows how to identify these creatures by using body shape, size, fin structure and location, body markings, coloration and habitat as identification keys. Memory clues are used in aiding to make this learning experience fun for SCUBA divers and snorkelers of all skill levels.
Robert Michelson of Braintree, Massachusetts has been a professional photographer/videographer and owner of Photography By Michelson, Inc. since 1974. Bob's underwater footage and edited programs of anadromous fish species are now on permanent display at the Smithsonian Institution's National Zoological Park as part of the Amazonia Science Center's Earth Situation Room. During 2003, Bob produced Humpback Whale behavior and aerial footage for the History Channel Production "Deep Sea Detectives: SS Portland." New Hampshire Public Television used underwater stock material on several episodes of the series New Hampshire Wildlife Journal. During 2006, Bob's whale behavior footage was used by Jean-Michel Cousteau's Ocean Adventures television series American Adventures.
General Meetings are held the third Wednesday of each month, at the New England Aquarium Conference Center (located on the first floor of the Harbor Garage). Click here for directions
At each general meeting there will be the monthly drawing for a chance to have a hands on aquarium experience.
For directions and more info about all our meetings, visit our Club Meetings Page
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