Fall Meeting - Keri O'Neil (The Florida Aquarium)

Schedule

Sat Nov 08 2025 at 01:00 pm to 04:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Green Acres Center | Fairfax, VA

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Time: 1:00 - 4:30 pm
WHERE: Green Acres Center, 4401 Sideburn Rd., Fairfax, VA
Speaker: Keri O'Neil - Director & Senior Scientist, Coral Conservation Program
WAMAS members get in free. Guests are $10 each (paid at the door). Join WAMAS at this link https://wamas.org/forums/join.php/
Talk Topic: Advancements in spawning corals for reef restoration in Florida

Bio:
Keri O’Neil is the Director and Senior Scientist for the Coral Conservation Program at The Florida Aquarium. She has over 20 years of experience in coral husbandry, and her work focuses on coral sexual reproduction, managed breeding, health, and optimizing the survival and growth of juvenile corals in aquaria. She began her career as an aquarist at the National Aquarium for 10 years, and she then returned to graduate school at Nova Southeastern University where she completed her Master’s thesis on optimizing culture conditions for Acropora cervicornis in land-based coral nurseries. Keri started at The Florida Aquarium in 2016 and has worked to develop a large managed breeding program for species native to Florida. In 2019, her team at The Florida Aquarium achieved the first aquarium induced spawning of an Atlantic coral, in conditions that will allow the offspring to be re-introduced to the wild. Her team has spawned 14 species of coral and has raised and released over 20,000 aquarium-reared sexual recruits back into Florida waters.
Agenda:
1:00 Sign-in / socialize / frag sales
2:00 Workshop -
2:50 Club business
3:00 Speaker - Keri O’Neil - "Advancements in spawning corals for reef restoration in Florida."
4:00 Break
4:15 Raffle!
Special thanks to theses sponsors. Please support them & say thanks next time you shop with them.
WAMAS Platinum Sponsors
- Air, Water & Ice
- Avast Marine
- Blue Ribbon Koi
- Champion Lighting & Supply
- ChemiPure (Boyd Enterprises)
- Coral Candy Aquaculture
- Exotic Reef Creations
- Fintastic Aquariums of Maryland
- Frank's Tanks
- Reed Mariculture (Reef Nutrition)
- Reef eScape
- Supreme Reefs
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- Cobalt Aquatics
- Coral Magazine
- Jellyfish Art
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Green Acres Center, 4445 Sideburn Rd, Fairfax, VA 22030-4403, United States

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