MACNA 2011 Presenter Profile: Sanjay Joshi

2006 MASNA Award Winner

Sanjay Joshi in real life is a Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Penn State University. He has been a reef addict since 1992, and currently keeps several reefs aquariums at home including a 500G SPS dominated reef. He also co-manages the 500G aquarium at Penn State.

He has published several articles in magazines such as Marine Fish and Reef Annual, Aquarium Frontiers, Aquarium Fish, and Advanced Aquarist. In addition he has been an invited speaker at several marine aquarium society meetings in the US and Europe. He received the MASNA award in 2006, for his contributions to the marine aquarium hobby.

Topic Presentation: LED Lighting for Reefs

Speaker room - Friday, September 09 1:30 PM

LED lighting has become a very viable option for lighting Reef Aquariums.  This presentation will focus on the LED lighting basics that an aquarist should be aware of, factors affecting selection of LED,  questions that an interested potential user should be asking,  along with data and evaluation of several commercially available LED lights for reef aquaria.
Sponsored By:
Seachem
Instant Ocean
Marineland
Reef Central
Coralife
Kent Marine
MarineGeek.com
CaribSea
Reef 2 Reef
Reef Builders
Live Aquaria
Two Little Fishies
Aquarium Fish International
Reef Hobbyist Magazine
Rod's Food
Exhibitor Spotlight:
Sunlight Supply
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