Program EUAC Conference 2017

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1 PROGRAM Monday October 23 rd 2017 Time Subject EUAC Executive Committee meeting (closed meeting in Canopy Lodge) Registration desk open Icebreaker Departure of shuttle buses to three accomodations from main entrance

2 PROGRAM Tuesday October 24 th Registration desk open Amalia Martínez de Murgía Welcome Alex van Hooff - CEO Royal Burgers Zoo Introductory speech João Falcato - President EUAC years EUAC - From the start to today Paul van den Sande The altruistic genie: Aquariums in the 21st century Mark Smith years old: Is an aged aquarium still up-to-date? Isabel Koch Coffee break Philippe Jouk New EUAC sponsors Stefan Inselmann «World aquariums against marine litter» Nadia Ounais Planet Ocean - A sea centre in the digital age Philippe Vallette Is there still a future for Aquariums? Philippe de Lacaze Better together - Joint network for sea turtles in European aquaria Sidonie Catteau Lunch Guided tour through Burgers Ocean & Mangrove Coffee break Working as a global conservation network: Business as usual is no longer an option Aquarium roles in the conservation of marine biodiversity - How our daily practices can help save aquatic species in real world applications Coral propagation workshops - a tool to help in local coral reef conservation efforts Oceanário de Lisboa support to in-situ conservation Ethical animal sourcing - An example of a strategy for public aquaria Daniel Abed-Navandi Kira Mileham Meredith Knott & A. Rita da Silva Nicole Kube Nuno Rodrigues Jean-Denis Hibbitt Free evening

3 PROGRAM Wednesday October 25 th Registration desk open Workshop introduction and results questionnaire Workshop part I - Journey to the public aquarium in 2030 (restricted to public aquarium colleagues only) Coffee break Workshop part II - Journey to the public aquarium in 2030 (restricted to public aquarium colleagues only) EAZA zoos and aquariums towards a sustainable future Danny de Man WAZA s Commitment to Aquariums and Marine Issues Doug Cress Hand out lunch bag Departure of buses to Rotterdam Zoo at main entrance Burgers Zoo Lunch in bus Arrival at Rotterdam Zoo Coffee break The Rhine Sturgeon Project: a brief overview Bram Houben & and a look into the future Niels Breve Guided tour through Oceanium (Rotterdam Zoo) Dinner at Haaienzaal, Oceanium (sponsored by Rotterdam Zoo) Departure of buses to Arnhem at Oceanium entrance Arrival at main entrance Burgers Zoo Departure of shuttle buses to three accomodations from main entrance

4 PROGRAM Thursday October 26 th Registration desk open Stéphane Hénard Ten years of Mola mola collections, holding and transports João Correia Acclimation, quarantine, colleague husbandry training and transport of Mobula hypostoma Frank Young Doing more with your animal data: a surprising and effective guest engagement tool Tony Niemann Functional feeds for ornamental fish and shrimp Jorge Dias Giant Otter an interesting species for European aquaria? Fabian Schmidt Coffee break FAITAG session part I Lunch ZIMS meeting (optional) Product update from small to big data during lunch in Mount Kenia Lodge Meredith Knott & Sander Cozijn FAITAG session part II Building a distributed living gene bank of tropical stony corals in public aquariums LIFE program: a funding tool to implement conservation activities in Europe Björn Källström Claudia Gili Coffee break Silvia Lavorano Stress and its effects on fish (including Mycobacteria) Rob Jones Fires happen! How prepared are you? Katy Duke Environmental enrichment for aquatic animals Wibke Jansen Optional: Departure of shuttle buses to three accomodations from main entrance Gala diner (sponsored by Burgers Zoo) Gala party Departure of shuttle buses to three accomodations from main entrance

5 PROGRAM Friday October 27 th Registration desk open General assembly (EUAC members only) Coffee break Attila Varga Poisonous fishes: Beauty and danger. How to deal with intoxications within the public aquarium industry Frank Müller Short presentations on different practical cases of intoxications Safe handling of stingrays Rob Jones Breeding Palaemon elegans for aquaristic purposes Anke Oertel Lunch Nicole Kube Swimming upstream: Aquariums working to save freshwater species Scott Dowd Fish Net an update on four freshwater conservation projects Forests Underwater by Takashi Amano Maintenance of a 160 m 3 nature aquarium at Oceanário de Lisboa Hugo Batista Jelly fish in the Oceanogràfic of Valencia. The largest exhibit in Europe Miguel Candelas Strobilation one of the most interesting and difficult to explain phenomena s in jellyfish culturing Piet Sondervan Coffee break Rob Hicks Cephalapod review: If an octopus could talk Chris Brown Estimating the gut transit time of 8 elasmobranch species Jeffrey de Pauw Fascination swell shark Parthogenesis and bioluminescence Ulrich Grassl Development of assisted reproduction technologies in Elasmobranchs Rob Jones Conclusion of workshop - Journey to the public aquarium in Closing of the conference