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MACNA XXIII Sept 9th - 11th, 2011

MACNA 2011
Sept 9th - 11th 2011
Hy-Vee Hall
730 3rd Street
Des Moines, IA 50309
Please join us for this years Marine Aquarium Conference of North America (MACNA) at the HyVee hall in downtown Des Moines, Iowa. MACNA is the largest & oldest marine aquarium conference in North America. MACNA is an exciting, annual event you can listen to lectures from any and every field related to reef keeping. Subjects from conservation to reef chemistry, to equipment and husbandry, there is something for everyone.

MACNA is different than other conferences. In addition to listening to speakers and viewing vendors' products, it is a social event! Speakers, vendors and attendees come together with a common interest! Vendors, speakers and attendees come to see each other as much as they do to hear lectures or view vendors products. You can mingle & chat with your favorite authors, vendors, or reef enthusiast from around the country at the Friday night reception and Saturday night during the awards banquet.

There will also be over 100 vendors there selling the hottest corals, displaying new cutting edge equipment, and asking you for your ideas so they may serve you and the hobby better.

So join us for MACNA XXIII in Des Moines, Iowa!!

Exhibitor Spotlight:

Marinetech Innovations

http://www.marinetechinnovations.com

Marinetech Innovations is a distributor of high quality products for the aquarium hobby. We offer only the best, and are know for the quality of our services. Right now we are happy to offer to all North America, products from Blau Aquaristic (amazing aquariums, light systems, skimmers and more), Emperor Aquatics (first quality UV sterilizer), Aquabee (water pumps know worldwide for their quality), JNS (great skimmer and reactors at the best price!), Illumagic (awesome LED fixture with integrate controller). Please feel free to contact us for any questions.

Speaker Spotlight:

David Hannan

Cinematographer and Producer, David Hannan has won international acclaim for his tropical and temperate marine images. His now classic underwater music video Coral Sea Dreaming released in 1992 has screened in over 60 countries and remains the best-selling Natural History program ever produced and marketed from Australia.

Since then, David has produced, co-produced and filmed many other TV Documentaries and Musical Videos, amassed one of the worlds' largest independent tropical marine footage libraries and also an extensive archive of Antarctica on HD.

David and his company Plankton Productions have been extensively involved in shooting and/or supplying images for many of the worlds best known programs and series over the last two decades including the BBC's "The Blue Planet" National Geographics' "The Shape of Life" and "Great Migrations" series and David Suzuki's "The Nature of Things".

In 1999 David won an Emmy Award for his Cinematography on "Palau - Paradise of the Pacific", part of the highly acclaimed US Living Edens Series. He was again nominated for an Emmy Award in 2008 for "Reef of Riches".

In 2007 David Co-Produced and Co-filmed the Feature Documentary "Sharkwater" www.sharkwater.com with Rob Stewart which has since won more than 34 International Awards.

The 6-part TV series entitled "Underwater Edens" for Smithsonian Channel was completed with Co-Producer Nate Scripture during 2009 which won the award for 'Best Series' at the International Wildlife Film Festival in 2010.

See story title Undersea Edens wins 'Best Series' award at IWFF.

He is proud of his role in instigating and co-producing an innovative new range of Marine Educational Modules and Keynote speeches that focus on Marine Issues and Marine Ecology that will be available online to over 10,000 schools in the Australian and New Zealand region and are also intended for worldwide Distribution in 2010.

David is currently releasing his latest HD project Coral Sea Dreaming - Awaken, exploring exciting new ways of seeing his imagery as 'Virtual Decor' and planning several new projects.